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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.
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.