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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
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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.
(24) Moreover, such as loved much,1 that had not such a trial, As might constrain to so great pain, and such deep self denial: Yet ready were the Cross to bear, when Christ them called thereto, And did rejoice to hear his voice, they're counted Sheep also.
(24) Moreover, such as loved much,1 that had not such a tryal, As might constrain to so great pain, and such deep self denyal: Yet ready were the Cross to bear, when Christ them call'd thereto, And did rejoyce to hear his voice, they're counted Sheep also.
- 1Luk• 7.41, 47.
(25) Christ's Flock of Lambs there also stands,1 whose Faith was weak, yet true; All sound Believers [Gospel receiver•] whose Grace was small, but grew: And them among an Infant throng of Babes, for whom Christ died; Whom for his own, by ways unknown to men, he sanctified.
(25) Christ's Flock of Lambs there also stands,1 whose Faith was weak, yet true; All sound Believers [Gospel receiver•] whose Grace was small, but grew: And them among an Infant throng of Babes, for whom Christ dy'd; Whom for his own, by wayes unknown to men, he sanctify'd.
- 1Jh. 21.15