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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.
CLXXVI. You think if we had been as he, whom God did so betrust, ⟨p. 54⟩We to our cost would ne'er have lost all for a paltry lust. Had you been made in Adam's stead, you would like things have wrought; And so into the self-same woe your selves and yours have brought.
CLXXVI. You think if we had been as he, whom God did so betrust, ⟨p. 54⟩We to our cost would ne'r have lost all for a paltry lust. Had you been made in Adam's stead, you would like things have wrought; And so into the self-same wo your selves and yours have brought.
CLXXVII. I may deny you once to try, or Grace to you to tender, Though he finds grace be•ore my face who was the chief offender: Else should my Grace cease to be Grace, for it should not be free, If to release whom I shall please I have not liberty.
CLXXVII. I may deny you once to try, or Grace to you to tender, Though he finds grace be•ore my face who was the chief offender: Else should my Grace cease to be Grace, for it should not be free, If to release whom I shall please I have not libertee.
CLXXVIII. I• upon one what's due to none I frankly shall bestow, And on the rest shall not think best compassions skirt to throw, Whom injure I? will you envy, and grudge at others weal? Or me accuse, who do refuse your selves to help and heal?