The Day of Doom; Or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment / With Other Poems

by Michael Wigglesworth

Transcriber's Note:

Apparent typographical errors have been corrected.

The Table of Contents has been shifted to follow the title pages.

Lines in black-letter font, on the title page, have been bolded.

The sidenotes to the "Day of Doom" mostly comprise Scriptural references, but also include general comments on some of the verses. The latter have been shifted to follow the verse number.

The use of acute accents and hyphens in the poems is explained in the Note at the end of the Autobiography.

THE
DAY of DOOM

OR, A
POETICAL DESCRIPTION
OF THE
GREAT AND LAST
JUDGMENT:

With Other Poems.

BY
MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH, A.M.,
Teacher of the Church at Malden in New England,

1662.

ALSO A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
AND SKETCH OF HIS FUNERAL SERMON BY
REV. COTTON MATHER.

Acts 17:31. Because he hath appointed a Day in the which he will judge the World in Righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained.

Mat. 24:30. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the Earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory.

FROM THE SIXTH EDITION, 1715

New York:
AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY.
1867.

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