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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.
(128) To please your kin, mens love to win,1 to flow in worldly wealth, To save your •kin, these •ings have bin more than Eternal health. You had your choice, wherein rejoice, it was your portion, For which you chose your Souls to expose unto perdition.
(128) To please your kin, mens love to win,1 to flow in worldly wealth, To save your •kin, these •ings have bin more than Eternal health. You had your choice, wherein rejoyce, it was your portion, For which you chose your Souls t'expose unto perdition.
- 1Luk. 9 23, 24, 25. Chap. 16.25.
(129) Who did not hate friends, life and state with all things else for me.1 And all forsake, and Cross up-take, shall never happy be. Well worthy they to dye for ay, who death then •e had rather. Death is their due, that so value the friendship of m• Father.