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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.
(78) How durst you venture, bold guests, to enter in such a sordid hew, 1Amongst my guests, unto those Feasts that were not made for you? How durst you eat for spiritual meat your bane, and drink damnation, Whilst by your guile you rendered vile so rare and great Salvation?
(78) How durst you venture, bold guests, to enter in such a sordid hew, 1Amongst my guests, unto those Feasts that were not made for you? How durst you eat for spiritual meat your bane, and drink damnation, Whilst by your guile you rendred vile so rare and great Salvation?
- 11 Cor 11▪ 27, 29.
(79) Your fancies fed on heavenly Bread, 1your hearts led on some Lust: You loved the Creature more than the' Creator, your S•uls clave to the dust. And think you by Hypocrisy, and c•oaked Wickedness, To enter in, laden with sin, to lasting happiness?
(79) Your •ancies fed on heav'nly Bread, 1your hearts led on some Lust: You lov'd the Creature more than th' Creator, your S•uls clave to the dust. And think you by Hypocrisie, and c•oaked Wickedness, To enter in, laden with sin, to lasting happiness?