The day of doom

Name: The day of doom
Author: Michael Wigglesworth

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.

Michael Wigglesworth 1631–1705Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1701

[12], 80 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 17k words · Evans 1030

Title page typeset from the transcription.

THE DAY OF DOOM.

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.

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(190) To Christ their Judge, he doth adjudge ¹them to the Pit of Sorrow; Nor will he hear, or cry, or tear, nor respite them one morrow. ²To Heaven alas, they cannot pass, it is against them shut; To enter there [O heavy cheer] they out of hopes are •ut.

(190) To Christ their Judge, he doth adjudge ¹them to the Pit of Sorrow; Nor will he hear, or cry, or tear, nor respite them one morrow. ²To Heav'n alas, they cannot pass, it is against them shut; To enter there [O heavy cheer] they out of hopes are •ut.

:255p. 48¶191

(191) ¹Unto their Treasures, or to their Pleasures, all these have them forsaken: Had they full Coffers to make large offers, their Gold would not be taken Unto the place where whilome was ²their Birth and Education? Lo! Christ begins for their great sins to fire the Earths Foundation:

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