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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.
(121) We had thy Word, say some, O Lord, but wiser men than we Could never yet interpret it, but alway disagree. How could we foo•s be led by Rules, so far beyond our ken, Which to explain did so much pain, and puzzle wisest men.
(122) Was all my word abstruse and hard? the Judge then answered: I did contain much truth so plain, you •ight have run and read. […] what was hard you never cared to know nor studied. And things that were most plain and clear you never practised.
(122) Was all my word abstruse and hard? the Judge then answered: I did contain much truth so plain, you •ight have run and read. 〈…〉 what was hard you never car'd to know nor studied. And things that were most plain and clear you never practised.