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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.
For what is Beauty, but a fading Flower? O• what is Pleasure, but the Devils bait, Whereby he catcheth whom he would devour, And multitudes of Souls doth ruinate?
For what is Beauty, but a fading Flower? O• what is Pleasure, but the Devils bait, Whereby he catch•th whom he would devour, And multitudes of Souls doth ruinate?
And what are Friends, but mortal men, as we? Whom Death from us may quickly separate? Or else their hearts may quite estranged be, And all their love be turned into hate.
And what are Friends, but mortal men, as we? Whom Death from us may quickl• separate? Or else their hearts may quite estranged be, And all their love be turned into hate.
And what a•e Riches to be doted on? Uncertain, fickle, and ensnaring things! They draw mens Souls into Perdition, And when most needed, take them to their wings.
And what a•e Riches to be doted on? Vncertain, fickle, and ensnaring things! They draw mens Souls into Perdition, And when most needed, take th•m to their wings.