...Wigglesworth published "Meat out of the Eater," whose purpose is declared in the remainder of its title: "Meditations concerning the necessity, end, and usefulness...prepare them for and comfort them under the Cross." While these poems brought Wigglesworth a degree of notoriety, The Day of Doom conferred on him an odd,...

...diversity of statement: — THere is now going to the Press sundry excellent and divine Poems, entituled, Meat out of the Eater; or, Meditations concerning...Necessity, End, and Usefulness of Afflictions unto Gods Children: All tending to prepare them for, and comfort them under the Cross. By Michael W igglesworth....

...Experiment in the Wilderness", in: Journal of Religious History, 1987, S. 135. 114 Michael Wigglesworth: "Meat Out of the Eater, or Meditations Concerning...and Usefulness of Afflictions unto God's Children", zitiert in Ursula Brumm: "Paradoxes and Puritan Selfhood: The Rungless Ladder of Salvation", in: Roland...

...brought by a book of teachings by the Puritan clergyman Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705), who wrote Meat Out of the Eater, or Meditations Concerning the...and Usefulness of Afflictions Unto God's Children (1669). Throughout his writing, Wigglesworth takes as his theme the words "only believe." I couldn't...

...Wigglesworth's dialogue between Flesh and Spirit, in a poem written after the death of his wife, included in Meat Out of the Eater or Meditations Concerning the...and Usefulness of Afflictions Unto God's Children (Cambridge, Mass., 1670), reprinted from the 1689 edition in Poems, 231-33; and Taylor's "Upon Wedlock,...

...forbidden knowledge sinks the ship of American humanity in Moby-Dick (1851). His next publication was "Meat Out of the Eater or Meditations concerning the Necessity, End, and Usefulness of Affliction to God's Children" which fell short of the popularity of the first book. The title suggests...

...and the Spirit" and "The Vanity of all Worldly Things," Wigglesworth's contemplative reflections in Meat out of the Eater; or, Meditations Concerning...and Usefulness of Afflictions unto God's Children (1670), and Taylor's God's Determinations Touching his Elect (ca. 1680) admirably demonstrate, early...