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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
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.
(56) Now it comes in, and every sin unto M•ns charge doth lay: It judgeth them, and doth condemn, though all the world say nay. It so stingeth and tortureth, it worketh such distress, That each Man's self against himself, is forced to confess.
(57) It's vain, moreover,1 for Men to cover the least iniquity: The Judge hath seen, and privy been to all their villainy. He unto light, and open sight the works of darkness brings: He doth unfold both new and old, both known and hidden things.
(57) It's vain, moreover,1 for Men to cover the least iniquity: The Judge hath seen, and privy been to all their villany. He unto light, and open sight the works of darkness brings: He doth unfold both new and old, both known and hidden things.