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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.
(108) Short was our time, for in his prime our youthful flower was cropped: We died in youth, before full growth, so was our purpose stopped. Let our good will to turn from ill, and sin to have forsaken. Accepted be, O Lord, by thee, and in good part be taken.
(108) Short was our time, for in his prime our youthful flow'r was cropt: We dy'd in youth, before full growth, so was our purpose stopt. Let our good will to turn from ill, and sin to have forsaken. Accepted be, O Lord, by thee, and in good part be taken.
(109) 1To whom the Judge, where you allege the shortness of the space, That from your birth you lived on earth, to compass saving Grace: It was Free grace that any space was given you at all To turn from evil, defy the Devil, and upon God to call.
(109) 1To whom the Judge, where you alledge the shortness of the space, That from your birth you liv'd on earth, to compass saving Grace: It was Free grace that any space was given you at all To turn from evil, defie the Devil, and upon God to call.
- 1Are Confuted and Convinced Eccles. 12 1. Rev. 2.21.