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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.
(177) I may deny you once to try,1 or Grace to you to tender, Though he finds Grace before my face, who was the chief offender: Else should my Grace cease to be Grace; for it should not be free, If to release whom I should please, I have no liberty.
(177) I may deny you once to try,1 or Grace to you to tender, Though he finds Grace before my face, who was the chief offender: Else should my Grace cease to be Grace; for it should not be free, If to release whom I should please, I have no libertee.
(178) If upon one what's due to none I frankly shall bestow, And on the rest shall not think best, compassions skirts to throw. Whom injure I? will you envy, and grudge at others weal? Or me accuse, who do refuse your selves to help and heal.
(179) Am I alone of what's my own,1 no Master or no Lord? Or if I am, how can you claim what I to some afford? Will you demand Grace at my hand, and challenge what is mine? Will you teach me whom to set free, & thus my Grace confine?