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The day of doom
The day of doom; or A description of the great and last judgment With a short discourse about eternity
London: printed by J.G. for P.C., 1666
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
CXXXVII. With cords of Love God often strove your stubborn hearts to tame: Nevertheless, your wickedness did still resist the same. If now at last Mercy be past from you for evermore, And Justice come in Mercies room, yet grudge you no• therefore.
CXXXVIII. If into wrath God tu••ed hath his Long-long •uffe•ing, And now for Love you Vengeance prove, it is an equal thing. Your waxing worse, hath stopped the course of wonted Clemency: Mercy refused, and Grace misused, call for severity.
CXXXVIII. If into wrath God tu••ed hath his Long-long •uffe•ing, And now for Love you Vengeance prove, it is an equal thing. Your waxing worse, hath stopt the course of wonted Clemency: Mercy refus'd, and Grace misus'd, call for severity.
CXXX•X. It's now high time that every Crime be brought to punishment: Wrath long contained, and oft refrained, at last must have a vent. Justice •evere cannot forbear to plague sin any longer; ⟨p. 43⟩But must inflict with hand mo•t strict mischief upon the wronger.