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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
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(143) God hath no joy to c•osh or 'stroy, 1and ruin wretched wights, But to display the glorious Ray of Justice he delights. To ma•i•est be doth detest, and throughly hate all sin, By plaguing it as is most fi•, this shall him glory win.
(143) God hath no joy to c•osh or 'stroy, 1and ruine wretched wights, But to display the glorious Ray of Justice he delights. To ma•i•est be doth detest, and throughly hate all sin, By plaguing it as is most fi•, this shall him glory win.
- 1Ezek 33 11. Exod▪ 34 7. & 14▪ 17 Rom 9, 22.
(144)1 Then at the Bar arraig•d are an impudenter fort, Who to evade the guilt that's laid upon them, thus retort; How could we cease thus to transgress? how could we Hell avoid, Whom Gods Decree shut out from thee, and signed to be destroyed?