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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.
(216) The pain of loss their Souls doth toss,1 and wondrously distress, To think what they have cast away by wilful wickedness. We might have been redeemed from sin think they, and lived above, Being possest of heavenly rest, and joying in God's love.
(216) The pain of loss their Souls doth toss,1 and wond'rously distress, To think what they have cast away by wilful wickedness. We might have been redeem'd from sin think they, and liv'd above, Being possest of heav'nly rest, and joying in God's love.
(217) But woe, woe, woe our Souls unto!1 we would not happy be; And therefore bear Gods Vengeance here to all Eternity. Experience and woeful sense must be our painful teachers Who n'ould believe, nor credit give, unto our faithful Preachers.
(217) But wo, wo, wo our Souls unto!1 we would not happy be; And therefore bear Gods Vengeance here to all Eternitee. Experience and woful sense must be our painful teachers Who n'ould believe, nor credit give, unto our faithful Preachers.