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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.
X. No heart so b•ld but now grows cold, and almost dead with fear: No eye so dry but now can cry, and pour out many a tear. Earths Potentates and powerful States, Captains and men of Might Are qui•e abashed, their courage dashed. At this most dreadful sight.
X. No heart so b•ld but now grows cold, and almost dead with fear: No eye so dry but now can cry, and pour out many a tear. Earths Po•entates and pow'rful States, Captains and men of Might Are qui•e abasht, their courage dasht. At this most dreadful sight.
XI. Mean men lament, great men do r•nt their robes and tear their hair: They do not spare their flesh to tear through horrible despair. All kindreds wail, their hearts do fail: horror the world doth fill Wi•• weeping eyes, and loud out-cries, yet knows not how to kill.
XI. Mean men lament, great men do r•nt their robes and tear their hair: They do not spare their flesh to tear through horrible despair. All kindreds wail, their hearts do fail: horrour the world doth fill Wi•• weeping eyes, and loud out-cries, yet knows not how to kill.
XII. Some hide themselves in Caves and Delves, and places under ground: Some rashly leap into the deep, to, scape by being drowned: Some to the Rocks, (O senseless blocks) and woody Mountains run, Ta there they might this fearful ight and dreaded Presence shun.