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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 5: Meditation V.
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.
From that rich future Recompense;
From that rich future Recompence;
Minding us of our Heavenly Rest,
Which should revive us when distressed.
Which should revive us when distrest.
[1] Meekly to bear Christ's yoke It is an Honour high: Thou Christ wilt surely them reward Who bear it patiently. For this short Grief of ours, 1And our Affliction light Shall work of glorious Happiness A far more lasting weight.
[1] MEekly to bear Christ's yoke It is an Honour high: Thou Christ wilt surely them reward Who bear it patiently. For this short Grief of ours, 1And our Affliction light Shall work of glorious Happiness A far more lasting weight.