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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.
(134) But all too late, grief's out of date, when life is at an end. The glorious King thus answering, all to his voice attend: 1God gracious is, quoth he, like his no mercy can be found; His Equity and Clemency to sinners do abound.
- 1They answered.
1(135) As may appear by those that here are placed at my right hand; Whose stripes I bore, and cleared the score, that they might quitted stand. For surely none, but God alone, whose Grace transcends mens thought, For such as those that were his foes like wonders would have wrought.
1(135) As may appear by those that here are plac'd at my right hand; Whose stripes I bore, and clear'd the score, that they might quitted stand. For surely none, but God alone, whose Grace transcends mens thought, For such as those that were his foes like wonders would have wrought.
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