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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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(169) O great Creator, why was our Nature depraved and forlorn? Why so defiled, and made so vild whilst we were yet unborn? If it be just, and needs we must transgressors rec•'ned be,1 Thy Mercy, Lord, to us afford, which sinners hath set free.
(169) O great Creator, why was our Nature depraved and forlorn? Why so defil'd, and made so vild whilst we were yet unborn? If it be just, and needs we must transgressors rec•'ned be,1 Thy Mercy, Lord, to us afford, which sinners hath set free.
(170) Behold we see Adam set free, and saved from his trespass, Whose sinful Fall hath split us all, and brought us to this pass Canst thou deny us once to try, or Grace to us to tender, When he finds grace before thy face, that was the chief offender?
(170) Behold we see Adam set free, and sav'd from his trespass, Whose sinful Fall hath split us all, and brought us to this pass Canst thou deny us once to try, or Grace to us to tender, When he finds grace before thy face, that was the chief off•nder?