Meat out of the eater

Name: Meat out of the eater
Author: 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 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.

Michael Wigglesworth 1631–1705printed by S.G. Samuel Green for John Usher of Boston, 1670

208 p. ; (8vo) · 23k words · Evans 158 · Wing W2104

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 6: Meditation VI.

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[3] Art thou a Prisoner? Our Lord himself was bound.¹ Art thou disgraced? why, he was scorned And trampled to the ground; Blindfolded, spit upon, Most wrongfully accused, Reviled, mocked, buffeted,² And wickedly abused.

[3] Art thou a Prisoner? Our Lord himself was bound.¹ Art thou disgrac'd? why, he was scorn'd And trampled to the ground; Blindfolded, spit upon, Most wrongfully accused, Reviled, mocked, buffetted,² And wickedly abused.

1Mat. 27.2. Chap. 26.65 67, 68.
2Mat. 27.28, 30.

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[4] Art thou in Poverty? Why, Christ himself was poor,¹ And had not where to lay his head; It's like he gives thee more. Art thou in Heaviness? He was a man of Grief;² Whose Soul was sorrowful to Death, To purchase our relief.

[4] Art thou in Poverty? Why, Christ himself was poore,¹

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Michael Wigglesworth 1631–1705

Printer

S.G. Samuel Green

Bookseller

John Usher of Boston

Year

1670

Size

208 p. ; (8vo)

Words

22,987

Catalogue

Evans 158 · Wing W2104

Text

Evans-TCP N00104

Passages

585

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Meditation VII.