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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.
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.
CXXX•X. It's now high time that every Crime be brought to punishment: VVrath long contain'd, and oft refrain'd, at last must have a vent. Justice •evere cannot fo•bear to plague sin any longer; ⟨p. 43⟩But must inflict with hand mo•t strict mischief upon the wronger.