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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.
[5] While better men are sick, Their bodies are in health: Whilst others are distressed with wants, They flow in worldly wealth. They have their time of peace, While others are in trouble. If other men have Plenty too, They have it more then double.
[5] While better men are sick, Their bodies are in health: Whil'st others are distrest with wants, They flow in worldly wealth. They have their time of peace, While others are in trouble. If other men have Plenty too, They have it more then double.
[6] They live and lie at ease,1 While others are in pain: And meet not with Calamity Their mirth for to restrain. While godly men are weeping, And laying sin to heart: They're feasting, singing, or else sleeping, Because they fell no smart.