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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.
As if they were some others, not the same.
Thine Understanding dismally benighted,
And Reason's eye in Spiritual things dim-sighted,
And Reason's eye in Sp'ritual things dim-sighted,
Or else stark blind: Thy Will inclined to evil,
Or else stark blind: Thy Will inclin'd to evil,
And nothing else, a Slave unto the Devil;