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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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(13) If any one this Question shall unto me propound; What, have the years of sinners tears no limits, or no bound? 1It kills our heart to think of smart, and pains that last for ever; And hear of fire that shall expire, or be extinguished never.
(13) If any one this Question shall unto me propound; What, have the years of sinners tears no limits, or no bound? 1It kills our heart to think of smart, and pains that last for ever; And hear of fire that shall expire, or be extinguish'd never.
(14) I'll Answer make (and let them take my words as I intend them: For this is all the Cordial that here I have to lend them) When Heaven shall cease to flow with peace and all felicity; Then Hell may cease to be the place of Woe and Misery.
(14) I'le Answer make (and let them take my words as I intend them: For this is all the Cordial that here I have to lend them) When Heav'n shall cease to flow with peace and all felicity; Then Hell may cease to be the place of Wo and Misery.
(15) When Heaven is Hell, when Ill is Well, when Virtue turns to Vice, When wrong is Right, when Dark is Light, when Nought is of great price: Then may the years of sinners tears and sufferings expire, And all the hosts of damned ghosts escape out of Hell-fire.