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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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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.
(199) The tender Mother will own no other of all her numerous brood, But such as stand at Christ's right hand acquitted through his Blood. The pious Father had now much rather 1his graceless Son should lie In Hell with Devils, for all his evils burning eternally.
(199) The tender Mother will own no other of all her numerous brood, But such as stand at Christ's right hand acquitted through his Blood. The pious Father had now much rather 1his graceless Son should ly In Hell with Devils, for all his evils burning eternally.
(200) Then God most high should injury, by sparing him sustain;1 And doth rejoice to hear Christ's voice adjudging him to pain. Who having all, both great and small, convinced and silenced, Did then proceed their Doom to read, and thus it uttered,
(200) Then God most high should injury, by sparing him sustain;1 And doth rejoyce to hear Christ's voice adjudging him to pain. Who having all, both great and small, convinc'd and silenced, Did then proceed their Doom to read, and thus it uttered,