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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 6: Meditation VI.
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] 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 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.