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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.
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More terrible than ever you were told,
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Nor speak I this, good Reader, to torment thee
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Before the time, but rather to prevent thee
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From running head-long to thine own decay,
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In such a perilous and deadly way.
In such a perillous and deadly way.
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We, who have known and felt Jehovah's terrors,