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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
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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.
[11] The smothering smoking Flax 1He'll not extinguish quite: To break a bruised shaken Reed Is none of his delight. He'll not contend for ay, 2Nor evermore upbraid: Lest that the spirit before him fail, And Souls that he hath made.
[11] The smothering smoaking Flax 1Hee'll not extinguish quite: To break a bruised shaken Reed Is none of his delight. Hee'll not contend for ay, 2Nor evermore upbraid: Lest that the spirit before him fail, And Souls that he hath made.
[12] Thou cravest oft a pledge1 Of Christ's free love to thee. A pledge thou hast, if Chastening Thou bearest fruitfully. God deals with us like sons If Scourging we endure, For unto patient Suffering He will his sons inure.
[12] Thou cravest oft a pledge1 Of Christ's free love to thee. A pledge thou hast, if Chastening Thou bearest fruitfullie. God deals with us like sons If Scourging we endure, For unto patient Suffering He will his sons inure.