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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.
(117) This you well knew, that God is true 1and that most men are liars, In word professing holiness, in deed thereof deniers. O simple fools! that having Rules your lives to regulate, Would them refuse, and rather choose vile men to imitate.
(117) This you well knew, that God is true 1and that most men are liars, In word professing holiness, in deed thereof deniers. O simple fools! that having Rules your lives to regulate, Would them refuse, and rather chuse vile men to imitate.
(118) 1But Lord, say they, we went astray, and did more wickedly, By means of those whom thou hast chose Salvation heirs to be. To whom the Judge; What you allege, doth nothing help the case; But makes appear how vile you were. and rendereth you more base.
(118) 1But Lord, say they, we went astray, and did more wickedlie, By means of those whom thou hast chose Salvation heirs to be. To whom the Judge; What you alledge, doth nothing help the case; But makes appear how vile you were. and rend'reth you more base.