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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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(160) We did not know a Christ till now, nor how fallen man be saved, Else would we not, right well we wot, have so our selves behaved. We should have mourned, we should have turned1 from sin at thy Reproof, And been more wise through thy advice, for our own Souls behoof.
(160) We did not know a Christ till now, nor how faln man be saved, Else would we not, right well we wot, have so our selves behaved. We should have mourn'd, we should have turn'd1 from sin at thy Reproof, And been more wise through thy advice, for our own Souls behoof.
(161) But Natures Light shined not so bright to teach us the right way: We might have loved it, and well improved it,1 and yet have gone astray. The Judge most High makes this Reply, you ignorance pretend, Dimness of sight, and want of light your course Heavenward to bend.
(161) But Natures Light shin'd not so bright to teach us the right way: We might have lov'd it, and well improv'd it,1 and yet have gone astray. The Judge most High makes this Reply, you ignorance pretend, Dimness of sight, and want of light your course Heav'nward to bend.
- 1They are answered.