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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.
CXLII. Eternal smart is the desert even of the least offence; Then wonder not if I allot to you this Recompense: But wonder more that, since so sore and lasting plagues are due To every sin, you lived therein, who well the danger knew.
CXLII. Etern•l smart is the desert ev'n of the least offence; Then wonder not if I allot to you this Recompence: But wonder more that, since so sore and lasting plagues are due To every sin, you liv'd therein, who well the danger knew.
CXLIII. God hath no joy to crush or 'stroy, and ruin wretched wights: But to display the glorious ray of Justice he delights. To manifest he doth detest and throughly hate all sin, By plaguing it, as is most fit, this shall him glory win.
CXLIII. God hath no joy to crush or 'stroy, and ruine wretched wights: But to display the glorious ray of Justice he delights. To manifest he doth detest and throughly hate all sin, By plaguing it, as is most fit, this shall him glory win.
CXLIV. Then at the Bar arraigned are an impudenter sort, Who to evade the guilt that's laid upon them, thus retort; How could we cease thus to transgress? how could we Hell avoid, Whom God's Decree shut out from thee, and signed to be destroyed?
CXLIV. Then at the Bar arraigned are an impudenter sort, Who to evade the guilt that's laid upon them, thus retort; How could we cease thus to transgress? how could we Hell avoid, Whom God's Decree shut out from thee, and sign'd to be destroy'd?