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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.
(63) Why still Hell-ward,1 without regard, they boldly ventured, And chose Damnation before Salvation, when it was offered: Why sinful pleasures, & earthly treasures, like fools, they prized more Than heavenly wealth, Eternal health, and all Christ's Royal store.
(63) Why still Hell-ward,1 without regard, they boldly ventured, And chose Damnation before Salvation, when it was offered: Why sinful pleasures, & earthly treasures, like fools, they prized more Than heav'nly wealth, Eternal health, and all Christ's Royal store.
(64) Why,1 when he stood •ff'ring his Blood to wash them from their sin, They would embrace no saving Grace, but lived and died therein? Such aggravations, wh•• no •vasions, nor false pretences hold, Exaggerate and accumulate guilt more than can be told.
(64) Why,1 when he stood •ff'ring his Blood to wash them from their sin, They would embrace no saving Grace, but liv'd and dy'd therein? Such aggravations, wh no vasions, nor false pretences hold, Exaggerate and cumulate guilt more than can be told.