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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.
(212) 1But who can tell the plagues of Hell, and torments exquisite? Who can relate their dismal state, and terrors infinite? Who fare the best, and feel the least, yet feel that punishment Whereby to nought they should be brought, if God did not prevent.
(212) 1But who can tell the plagues of Hell, and torments exquisi•e? Who can relate their dismal state, and terrours infinite? Who fare the best, and feel the least, yet feel that punishment Whereby to nought they should be brought, if God did not prevent.
- 1The unsufferable torments of the damned. Luk. 16.24. Jude 7.
(213) The least degree of misery there felt's incomparable, The lightest pain they there sustain 1more than intolerable. But God's great power from hour to hour upholds them in the fire, That they shall not consume a jot, nor by it's force expire.
(213) The least degree of miserie there felt's incomparable, The lightest pain they there sustain 1more than intolerable. But God's great pow'r from hour to hour upholds them in the fire, That they shall not consume a jot, nor by it's force expire.
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