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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.
[4] Who can expect a Crop Or Harvest to obtain; That breaks no ground, that sows no seed. That undergoes no pain? To triumph who can hope That doth the Battle shun? Eternal Glory whoso finds, Must first through rough ways run.
[4] Who can expect a Crop Or Harvest to obtain; That breaks no ground, that sowes no seed. That undergoes no pain? To triumph who can hope That doth the Battel shun? Eternal Glory whoso findes, Must first through rough wayes run.
[6] What if thy conflict with The roaring Lion be? If thou be called to fight against World, Flesh, and Devil, all three. 1Stronger is Christ in thee Then strongest Enemy, Who Satan under thy Souls feet shall tread down speedily.