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Common terms and phrasesabus'd Art thou Bermuda Bretheren Brimstone brought Bunker burning Lake canst canst thou Chaff Christ Christ's left Clemency come COTTON MATHER Damnation Day of Doom Death dost doth durst Eccl endless endless pains England Eternal everlasting smart evermore Ezek Ezekiel Cheever Faith Farewell Father fear floods of tears forsaken Free Grace friends glorious Glory Goats God's God's wrath Gospel Grace grief guileful happy Harvard College hath hear heart Heav'n Heav'nly Hell Hell-fire holy improv'd iniquity Jehovah John Judge Judgment light liv'd live Lord lov'd Luke 12 lust MALDEN Mark 9 may'st men's Mercy might misdone misery Nature's light naught ne'er never none Number Oce-an ordained pain pastor Perditi-on plagues plead pow'r preached Prom Prov Psal Psalm Puritans refus'd repent Saints saving Grace scape sinful Crew sinful wights sinners sloth smart Sodomites Sons of Men Sprite stand stand at Christ's tears terrors thee theology thine things thou hast thought thrall thus thy sins thy Soul till Torments transgressi-on trespass true Faith Twas unto vain vile whilst whom Whoremongers whose wicked Wigglesworth wights World wrath ye Colledge Yorkshire yourselves References from web pagesThe Day Of Doom by Michael Wigglesworth The Day of Doom! « zunguzungu Michael Wigglesworth's poem: The Day of Doom From The Day of Doom - Sidebar - MSN Encarta The Day of Doom Stanzas 1-25 Literary Encyclopedia: The Day of Doom The Day of Doom Stanzas 201-224 The Day of Doom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia JSTOR: The Day of Doom... with Other Poems Colonial American Press Popular passagesYou sinners are, and such a share as sinners, may expect; Such you shall have, for I do save none but mine own Elect. Yet to compare your sin with their who liv'da longer time, I do confess yours is much less, though every sin's a crime. Page 72 A crime it is, therefore in bliss you may not hope to dwell; But unto you I shall allow the easiest room in Hell. The glorious King thus answering, they cease, and plead no longer: Their Consciences must needs confess his Reasons are the stronger. Page 73 Would you have griev'd to have receiv'd through Adam so much good, As had been your for evermore, if he at first had stood 1 i 71 Would you have said, ' We ne'er obey'd nor did thy laws regard ; It ill befits with benefits, us, Lord, to so reward... Page 71 No heart so bold, but now grows cold And almost dead with fear: No eye so dry, but now can cry, And pour out many a tear. Earth's potentates and pow'rful states, Captains and men of might Are quite abasht, their courage dasht At this most dreadful sight. Page 24 Since then to share in his welfare, You could have been content, You may with reason share in his treason, And in the punishment. Hence you were born in state forlorn, With natures so depraved: Death was your due, because that you Had thus yourselves behaved. 176 "You think, 'if we had been as he, Whom God did so betrust, We to our cost would ne'er have lost All for a paltry lust. Page 71 O great Creator why was our Nature depraved and forlorn? Why so defil'd, and made so vil'd, whilst we were yet unborn? If it be just, and needs we must transgressors reckon'd be, Thy Mercy, Lord, to us afford, which sinners hath set free. Page 69 Then might you hear them rend and tear the Air with their out-cries; The hideous noise of their sad voice ascendeth to the Skies. Page 79 Head; A common Root, whence all should shoot, and stood in all their stead. He stood and fell, did ill or well, not for himself alone, But for you all, who now his Fall and trespass would disown. Page 70 Still was the night, Serene and Bright, when all Men sleeping lay; Calm was the season, and carnal reason thought so 'twould last for ay. Soul, take thine ease, let sorrow cease, much good thou hast in store: This was their Song, their Cups among, the Evening before. Page 21 Wallowing in all kind of sin, vile wretches lay secure: The best of men had scarcely then their Lamps kept in good ure. Page 21 Other editions
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