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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.
[10] How many men can wade Up to the knees in Blood To win an Earthly Kingdom, which Can do them little good? Which brings them nought but sorrow; Which cannot satisfy▪ Which may be lost before to morrow; And must be, when they die.
[10] How many men can wade Up to the knees in Blood To win an Earthly Kingdom, which Can do them little good? Which brings them nought but sorrow; Which cannot satisfie▪ Which may be lost before to morrow; And must be, when they die.
[11] And shall not we take pains1 To win a Heavenly Crown; Which having once, through grace, obtained Shall ever be our own? A glorious, ma••ie Crown, A rich Inheritance,2 That's undefiled, that never fades, Not subject unto chance.
[11] And shall not we take pains1 To win a Heavenly Crown; Which having once, through grace, obtain'd Shall ever be our own? A glorious, ma••ie Crown, A rich Inheritance,2 That's undefil'd, that never fades, Not subject unto chance.