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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.
A A Short Discourse ON ETERNITY.
(1) What Mortal man can with his Span mete out Eternity? Or fathom it by depth of Wit,1 or strength of Memory? The lofty Sky is not so high, Hells depth to this is small: The World so wide is but a stride, compared therewithal.
(1) WHat Mortal man can with his Span mete out Eternity? Or fathom it by depth of Wit,1 or strength of Memory? The lofty Sky is not so high, Hells depth to this is small: The World so wide is but a stride, compared therewithall.
(2) It is a main great Ocean, withouten bank or bound: A deep Abyss, wherein there is no bottom to be found. This World hath stood now since the Flood, four thousand years well near, And had before endured more than sixteen hundred year.