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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.
(104) Again you thought and mainly sought a name with men t' acquire.1 Pride bare the Bell, that made you swell, and your own selves admire. Mean fruit it is, and vile, I wis, that springs from such a root: Virtue divine and genuine wants not from pride to shoot.
(104) Again you thought and mainly sought a name with men t' acquire.1 Pride bare the Bell, that made you swell, and your own selves admire. Mean fruit it is, and vile, I wiss, that springs from such a root: Vertue divine and genuine wonts not from pride to shoot.
- 1Mat. 6 5.
(105) Such deeds as your are worse than poor; they are but sins guilt over With silver dross,1 whose glistering gloss can them no longer cover. The best of them would you condemn, and ruin you alone, Although you were from faults so clear, that other you had none.
(105) Such deeds as your are worse than poor; they are but sins guilt over With silver dross,1 whose glistering gloss can them no longer cover. The best of them would you condemn, and ruine you alone, Although you were from faults so clear, that other you had none.