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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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(147) Christ readily makes this Reply, I damn you not because You are rejected, or not elected, but you have broke my Laws: It is but vain your wits to strain, the end and means to sever: Men fondly seek to part or break what God hath linked together.
(147) Christ readily makes this Reply, I damn you not because You are rejected, or not elected, but you have broke my Laws: It is but vain your wits to strain, the end and means to sever: Men fondly seek to part or break what God hath link'd together.
(148) 1Whom God will save, such he will have, the m•ans of life to use: Whom he'll pass by, shall *choose to die, and ways of life refuse. He that foresees, and fore decrees, in wisdom ordered has, That man's free-will electing ill, shall bring his will to pass.
(148) 1Whom God will save, such he will have, the m•ans of life to use: Whom he'll pass by, shall *chuse to dy, and ways of life refuse. He that foresees, and fore decrees, in wisdom order'd has, That man's free-will electing ill, shall bring his will to pass.
- 1Acts 3.19 & 16 31.
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