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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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(69) Lord, in thy Name, and by the same we Devils di••oss•st. We raised the dead, and ministered 1succour to the distressed. Our painful teaching, & powerful preaching by thine own wondrous might, Did throughly win to God from sin many a wretched wight.
(69) Lord, in thy Name, and by the same we Devils di••oss•st. We rais'd the dead, and ministred 1succour to the distrest. Our painful teaching, & pow'rful preaching by thine own wondrous might, Did throughly win to God from sin many a wretched wight.
(70) 1All this, quoth he, may granted be, and your case little bettered, Who still remain under a chain, and many irons fettered. You that the dead have quickened, and rescued from the grave, Your selves were dead, yet never n•d, a Christ your Souls to save.
(70) 1All this, quoth he, may granted be, and your case little better'd, Who still remain under a chain, and many irons fetter'd. You that the dead have quickened, and rescu'd from the grave, Your selves were dead, yet never n•d, a Christ your Souls to save.