The day of doom

Name: The day of doom
Author: Michael Wigglesworth

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.

Michael Wigglesworth 1631–1705Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1701

[12], 80 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 17k words · Evans 1030

Title page typeset from the transcription.

A PRAYER Unto Christ the Judge OF THE WORLD.

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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Till Juno, Venus, Mercury,

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With frowning Mars, and thundering Jove.

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Rule Earth below, and Heaven above.

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But I have learnt to pray to none,

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Save unto God in Christ alone.

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Nor will I laud, no not in jest,

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THE DAY OF DOOM.