The day of doom

Name: The day of doom
Author: Michael Wigglesworth

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.

Michael Wigglesworth 1631–1705Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1701

[12], 80 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 17k words · Evans 1030

Title page typeset from the transcription.

THE DAY OF DOOM.

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:166p. 26¶102

(102) ¹Your blinded spirit, hoping to merit by your own Righteousness, Needed no Saviour, but your behaviour, and blameless carriages You trusted to what you could do, and in no need you stood: Your haughty pride laid me aside, and trampled on my Blood.

1Rom 10.3.

:167p. 26¶103

(103) All men have gone astray, and done, that which Gods Laws condemn: But my Purchase and offered Grace all men did not contemn ¹The Ninevites, and Sodomites, had no such sin as this: Yet as if all your sins were small, you say, All did amiss.

(103) All men have gone astray, and done, that which Gods Laws condemn: But my Purchase and offered Grace all men did not contemn ¹The Niuevites, and Sodomites, had no such sin as this: Yet as if all your sins were small, you say, All did amiss.

1Rom. 9.30, 32. Mat. 1•.23, 24. & 12.41

:168p. 27¶104

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