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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
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Tolle Crucem. All Christians must be Cross bearers. › Meditation 6: Meditation VI.
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[5] Or do Temptations vex thee? He tempted was likewise:1 He pitieth when such things perplex thee, And helps thee when thou cries. Do Sin and Wrath distress thee? None so distressed as he,2 Who underwent God's direful wrath, From wrath our Souls to free.
[5] Or do Temptations vex thee? He tempted was likewise:1 He pitieth when such things perplex thee, And helps thee when thou cries. Do Sin and Wrath distress thee? None so distrest as he,2 Who underwent God's direful wrath, From wrath our Souls to free.
- 1Heb. 2.18 & 4 15.
- 2Mat. •• ▪ 46.
[6] If thus our General 1No danger hath declined: Well may his Soldiers be content Some hardship for to find. If he hath suffered In whom no guilt was found: Well may we suffer for our faults, Whose sins so much abound.
[6] If thus our Generall 1No danger hath declin'd: Well may his Souldiers be content Some hardship for to find. If he hath suffered In whom no guilt was found: Well may we suffer for our faults, Whose sins so much abound.