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The day of doom
The day of doom: or, A poetical description of the Great and Last Judgment. With a short discourse about eternity. / By Michael Wigglesworth, teacher of the church at Maldon, in N.E.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1701
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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.
(52) 1The glorious Judge will privilege nor Emperor, nor King: But every one that hath mis-done doth into Judgment bring. And every one that hath mis-done, the Judge impartially Condemneth to eternal woe, and endless misery.
(52) 1The glorious Judge will priviledge nor Emperour, nor King: But every one that hath mis-done doth into Judgment bring. And every one that hath mis-done, the Judge impartially Condemneth to eternal wo, and endless misery.
(53) Thus one and all, thus great and small the Rich as well as Poor, And those of place as the most base, do stand the Judge before. They are arraigned, and there detained, before Christ's Judgment-seat With trembling fear, their Doom to hear, and feel his angers heat.
(53) Thus one and all, thus great and small the Rich as well as Poor, And those of place as the most base, do stand the Judge before. They are arraign'd, and there detain'd, before Christ's Judgment-seat With trembling fear, their Doom to hear, and feel his angers heat.
(54) There Christ demands at all their hands