N00104:96
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.
[3] They are afflicted less Then God's own Children dear: 1And it's no wonder, if we mind, They have their Portion here. Yet silly sinful flesh 2At this is apt to grumble: And at the scandal of the Cross There are too many stumble.
[3] They are afflicted less Then God's own Children dear: 1And it's no wonder, if we minde, They have their Portion here. Yet silly sinfull flesh 2At this is apt to grumble: And at the scandal of the Cross There are too many stumble.
[4] They flourish like a Tree; They have the world at will: 1Their Breasts are flowing-full of milk; Marrow their bones doth fill. They have no sorrows great Their vigour to decay: Nor is their Moisture radical Consumed and swealed away.
[4] They flourish like a Tree; They have the world at will: 1Their Breasts are flowing-full of milk; Marrow their bones doth fill. They have no sorrows great Their vigour to decay: Nor is their Moisture radical Consum'd and sweal'd away.