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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.
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.
SONG V.
[1] 1Our Saviour, for the joy That was before him set, Endured the Cross, despised the shame, And paid for all our debt. And as himself did eye That future glorious •state: So would he have the thoughts thereof Our Souls to animate.
[1] 1OUr Saviour, for the joy That was before him set, Endur'd the Cross, despis'd the shame, And paid for all our debt. And as himself did eye That future glorious •state: So would he have the thoughts thereof Our Souls to animate.
- 1Heb. 12.•.
[2] To him that hath begun, And will complete our Faith, We are commanded for to look; Who thus despised hath The Ignominious shame For that most glorious joy; And having suffered, is set down At God's right hand on high.