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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
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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.
CXCV. Unto the Saints with sad complaints. should they themselves apply? They're not dejected nor ought affected with all their misery. Friends stand aloof, and make no proof what Prayers or Tears can do: Your godly friends are now more friends to Christ then unto you.
CXCVI. Where tender love mens hearts did move unto a sympathy, ⟨p. 60⟩And bearing part of others smart in their anxiety; Now such compassion is out of fashion, and wholly laid aside: No friend so near, but Saints to hear their judgement can abide.
CXCVII. One natural Brother beholds another in this astonied fit, Yet sorrows not thereat a jot, nor pities him a whit. The godly wife conceives no grief, nor can she shed a tear For the sad state of her dear Mate, when she his doom doth hear.
CXCVIII. He that was erst a Husband pierced with sense of Wives distress, Whose tender heart did bear a part of all her grievances, Shall mourn no more as heretofore because of her ill plight; Although he see her now to be a damned forsaken wight.