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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.
[9] Therefore take up the Cross; The Rod in meekness kiss: Be silent and him reverence, who Thy God and Father is. 1Who less afflicteth thee, Then thou deserved hast; Yea and afflicteth thee, that so A gainer be thou mayest.
[9] Therefore take up the Cross; The Rod in meekness kiss: Be silent and him reverence, who Thy God and Father is. 1Who less afflicteth thee, Then thou deserved hast; Yea and afflicteth thee, that so A gainer be thou may'st.
- 1Ezra. 9.13. Heb. 12.1•.
[10] 1Measure and Moderation In Chastening he respecteth; And none of his beyond their strength By pain or grief dejecteth. Although he burn the Dross 2He will not waste his Gold: If with the one hand he cast down; His other doth uphold.
[10] 1Measure and Moderation In Chast'ning he respecteth; And none of his beyond their strength By pain or grief dejecteth. Although he burn the Dross 2He will not waste his Gold: If with the one hand he cast down; His other doth uphold.