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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.
(4) They put away the evil day, And drowned their care and fears, Till drowned were they, and swept away by vengeance unawares: 1So at the last, whilst Men sleep fast in their security, Surprised they are in such a snare as cometh suddenly.
(4) They put away the evil day, And drown'd their care and fears, Till drown'd were they, and swept away by vengeance unawares: 1So at the last, whilst Men sleep fast in their security, Surpriz'd they are in such a snare as cometh suddenly.
(5) 1For at midnight brake forth a Light, which turned the night to day, And speedily an hideous cry did all the world dismay. Sinners' awake, their hearts do ache, trembling their loins surpriseth; Amazed with fear, by what they hear, 2each one of them ariseth.
(5) 1For at midnight brake forth a Light, which turn'd the night to day, And speedily an hideous cry did all the world dismay. Sinners' awake, their hearts do ake, trembling their loynes surprizeth; Amaz'd with fear, by what they hear, 2each one of them ariseth.