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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.
(141) It doth agree with equity, 1and with Gods holy Law, That those should dye eternally that death upon them draw, The Soul that has damnation wi•, for so the Law ordains; Which Law is just, and therefore must such suffer endless pain.
- 1Isa 5 18▪ 19. Gen. 2.17. Rom 2.8, 9.
(142) 1Eternal smart is the de•rt, even of the least offence; Then wonder not […] allot to you this Recompense: But wonder more, that since so sore and lasting plagues are due To every sin, you lived therein, who well the danger knew.
(142) 1Eternal smart is the de•rt, ev'n of the least off•nce; Then wonder not 〈…〉 allot to you this Recompence: But wonder more, that since so sore and lasting plagues are due To every sin, you liv'd therein, who well the danger knew.