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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The yoke of Christ, which once thou didst esteem

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A tedious yoke, shall then most easy seem.

A tedious yoke, shall then most easie seem.

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For why? The love of Christ shall thee constrain

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To take delight in that which was thy pain.

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The ways of Wisdom shall be pleasant ways,

The wayes of Wisdom shall be pleasant wayes,

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