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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.
(156) These words appal and daunt them all; dism•i'd, and all amor•, Like stocks they stand at Christ's left-hand, and dare no more retort. Then were brought near with trembling fear, a number numberless Of blind Heathen, and brutish men, that did Gods Laws transgress.
(156) These words appall and daunt them all; dism•i'd, and all amor•, Like stocks they stand at Christ's left-hand, and dare no more retort. Then were brought near with trembling fear, a number numberless Of blind Heathen, and bruitish men, that did Gods Laws transgress.
(157) 1Whose wicked ways Christ open lays, and makes their sins appear, They making pleas their case to ease, if not themselves to clear. Thy written Word (say they) good Lord, we never did enjoy: We nor refused, nor it abused Oh, do not us destroy!
(157) 1Whose wicked ways Christ open layes, and makes their sins appear, They making pleas their case to ease, if not themselves to clear. Thy written Word (say they) good Lord, we never did enjoy: We nor refus'd, nor it abus'd Oh, do not us destroy!
- 1Heathen men plead want of the written Word.