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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.
(91) Thus from your selves unto your selves, your duties all do tend: And as self-love the wheels doth move,1 so in self-love they end Thus Christ detects their vain projects, and close Impiety, And plainly shows that all their shows were but Hypocrisy.
(91) Thus from your selves unto your selves, your duties all do tend: And as self-love the wheels doth move,1 so in self-love they end Thus Christ detects their vain projects, and close Impiety, And plainly shews that all their shows were but Hypocrisy.
- 1Zach. 7.5, 6. H•s. 10.1.
(92) 1Then were brought high a Company of Civil honest Men, That loved true dealing, and hated stealing ne'er wronged their Brethren; Who pleaded thus, Thou knowest us that we were blameless livers; No Whoremongers, no Murderers, no quarrellers nor strivers.
(92) 1Then were brought high a Company of Civil honest Men, That lov'd true dealing, and hated stealing ne'r wrong'd their Bretheren; Who pleaded thus, Thou knowest us that we were blameless livers; No Whoremongers, no Murderers, no quarrellers nor strivers.