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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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(182) Thus all mens Pleas the Judge with ease doth answer and confute, Until that all, both great and small, are silenced and mute Vain hopes are cropped, all mouths are stopped sinners have •ought to say, But that 'is just, and equal me• they should be damned for ay▪
(182) Thus all mens Pleas the Judge with ease doth answer and confute, Until that all, both great and small, are silenced and mute Vain hopes are cropt, all mouths are stopt sinners have •ought to say, But that 'is just, and equal me• they should be damn'd for ay▪
(183) Now what remains, but that to pains and everlasting smart, Christ should condemn the Sons of men, which is their just desert; Oh rueful plights of sinful wights! Oh wretches all forlorn: 'T had happy been they ne'er had seen the Sun, or not been born.
(183) Now what remains, but that to pains and everlasting smart, Christ should condemn the Sons of men, which is their just desert; Oh rueful plights of sinful wights! Oh wretches all forlorn: 'T had happy been they ne're had seen the Sun, or not been born.
(184) Yea, now it would be good they could themselves annihilate, And cease to be, themselves to free from such a fearful state. Oh happy Dogs, and Swine, and Frogs: yea Serpents generation, Who do not fear this doom to hear, and sentence of Damnation!