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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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(173) If he had stood, then all his brood had been established In Gods true love, never to move, nor once awry to tread: Then all his Race, my Father's Grace, should have enjoyed for ever, And wicked Sprites by subtle sleights could them have harmed never.
(173) If he had stood, then all his brood had been established In Gods true love, never to move, nor once awry to tread: Then all his Race, my Father's Grace, should have enjoy'd for ever, And wicked Sprights by subtile sleights could them have harmed never.
(174) Would you have grieved to have received through Adam so much good, As had been your for evermore, if he at first had stood? Would you have said, we ne'er obeyed, nor did thy Laws regard; It ill be fi•s with benefits, us, Lord, so to reward,
(174) Would you have griev'd to have receiv'd through Adam so much good, As had been your for evermore, if he at first had stood? Would you have said, we ne'r obey'd, nor did thy Laws regard; It ill be fi•s with b•n•fits, us, Lord, so to reward,
(175) Since then to share in his welfare, you could have been content, You may with reason share in his treason, and in the punishment. 1Hence you were born in state forlorn, with Natures so depraved: Death was your due, because that you had thus your selves behaved.