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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.
(12) 1Some hide themselves in Caves and Delves in places under ground: Some rashly leap into the Deep, to scape by being drowned: Some to the Rocks [O senseless blocks!] and woody Mountains run, That there they might this fearful sight, and dreaded Presence shun.
(12) 1Some hide themselves in Caves and Delves in places under ground: Some rashly leap into the Deap, to scape by being drown'd: Some to the Rocks [O sensless blocks!] and woody Mountains run, That there they might this fearful sight, and dreaded Presence shun.
(13) In vain do they to Mountains say, Fall on us, and us hide From Judges ire, more hot than fire, for who may it abide? No hiding place can from his Face, sinners at all conceal, Whose flaming Eyes hid things doth 'spy, and darkest things reveal.