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

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THE DAY OF DOOM.

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(195) Unto the Saints with sad complaints should they themselves apply? They're not dejected,¹ nor ought affected with all their misery. Friends stand aloof, and make no proof what Prayers or Tears can do:² Your godly friends are now more friends to Christ than unto you,

1Rev 21 4
2Psal. 58.10.

:260p. 50¶196

(196) Where tender love mens hearts did move unto a sympathy, And bearing part of others smart in their anxiety; ¹Now such compassion is out of fashion, and wholly laid aside: No Friends so near, but Saints to hear their Sentence can abide.

11 Cor. 6.2.

:261p. 50¶197

(197) One natural Brother beholds another in this astonied fit, ¹Yet sorrows not thereat a jot, nor pities him a whit. The godly wife conceives no grief, nor can she shed a tear For the sad state of her dear Mate, when she his doom doth hear.

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