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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 7: Meditation VII.
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.
Meditation VII.
The worldly man's Prosperity
Is only gilded Misery.
Is onely gilded Misery.
[1] Although God's dealings are Exceeding various Respecting outward things, which be Adverse or Prosperous; That none can certainly1 Discern God's Love or Hate, By being in Affliction, Or in a Prosperous state:
[1] ALthough God's dealings are Exceeding various Respecting outward things, which be Adverse or Prosperous; That none can certainly1 Discern God's Love or Hate, By being in Affliction, Or in a Prosperous state: