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.

Postscript: A Postscript UNTO THE Reader.

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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If in the night, when thou art fast asleep,

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Some friend of thine, that better watch doth keep,

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Should see thy house all on a burning flame,

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And thee almost enclosed with the same:

And thee almost inclosed with the same:

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If such a friend should break thy door & wake thee,

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Or else by force out of the peril •e thee:

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