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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.
To the Christian Reader.
Reader, I am a fool, And have adventured To play the fool this once for Christ, The more his fame to spread If this my foolishness Help thee to be more wise, I have attained what I seek, And what I only prize.
REader, I am a fool, And have adventured To play the fool this once for Christ, The more his fame to spread If this my foolishness Help thee to be more wise, I have attained what I seek, And what I onely prize.
Thou wonderest perhaps, That I in Print appear, Who to the Pulpit dwell so nigh, Yet come so seldom there▪ The God of Heaven knows What grief to me it is, To be with-held from Serving Chr••; No sorrow like to this.
Thou wonderest perhaps, That I in Print appear, Who to the Pulpit dwell so nigh, Yet come so seldome there▪ The God of Heaven knows What grief to me it is, To be with-held from Serving Chr••; No sorrow like to this.