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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.
(208) Whom having brought, as they are taught,1 unto the brink of Hell (That dismal place far from Christ's face, where Death and Darkness dwell: Where Gods fierce •e kindleth the fire, and vengeance feeds the flame With piles of Wood, and Brimstone Flood, that none can quench the same▪)
- 1HELL. Mat. 25.30. Mark. 9.43. Isa 30.33 Rev. 21.8.
(209)1 With Iron bands they bind their hands, and cursed feet together, And cast them all, both great and small, into that Lake for ever. Where day and night, without respite, they wail, and cry, and howl For torturing pain, which they sustain in Body and in Soul.
(209)1 With Iron bands they bind their hands, and cursed feet together, And cast them all, both great and small, into that Lake for ever. Where day and night, without respite, they wail, and cry, and howl For tort'ring pain, which they sustain in Body and in Soul.