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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.
If Gifts and Bribes Deaths favour might but win, If Power it force, or Threatenings might it fray; All these and more, had still surviving bin: But all are gone, for Death will take no Nay.
If Gifts and Bribes Deaths favour might but win, If Power it force, or Threatnings might it fray; All these and more, had still surviving bin: But all are gone, for Death will take no Nay.
Such is this World with all her Pomp and Glory; Such are the men whom worldly eyes admire: Cut down by Time, and now become a Story, That we might after better things aspire.
Go boa•t thy self of what thine heart enjoys, Vain man! triumph in all thy worldly Bliss: Thy best Enjoyments are but trash and toys; Delight thy self in that which worthless i•.
Omnia praetereunt praeter Amare Deum.