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Meat out of the eater
Meat out of the eater: or, Meditations concerning the necessity, end, and usefulness of afflictions unto Gods children. All tending to prepare them, for, and comfort them under the cross. / By Michael Wigglesworth.Meat out of the eater: or, Meditations concerning the necessity, end, and usefulness of afflictions unto Gods children. All tending to prepare them, for, and comfort them under the crosse. / By Michael Wigglesworth.
printed by S.G. Samuel Green for John Usher of Boston, 1670
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 4: Meditation IV.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
[7] The Son of God himself By whom the World was made1 Took up the Cross, endured Death, And so our Ransom paid. He had no need to die; But we had been undone: Unless that He our Punishment And Pain had undergone.
[8] He past through Sufferings1 Into his glorious state: It's fit that Members be content Their Head to imitate. Himself hath born the Curse, And taken away the Sting: So that the Cross is now become A sanctified thing.
[8] He past through Sufferings1 Into his glorious state: It's fit that Members be content Their Head to imitate. Himself hath born the Curse, And ta'ne away the Sting: So that the Cross is now become A sanctified thing.