The Day of Doom; Or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment: With Other PoemsWigglesworth, Michael
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The Day of Doom; Or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment: With Other Poems
Wigglesworth, Michael
Judgment Day -- Poetry
XXXIII.
[Sidenote: Zach. 5:3, 4. Gal. 5:19, 20, 21.]
Moreover, there together were
children flagiti-ous,
And Parents who did them undo
by nurture vici-ous.
False-witness-bearers and self-forswearers,
Murd'rers and Men of Blood,
Witches, Enchanters, and Ale-house haunters,
beyond account there stood.
XXXIV.
[Sidenote: Rom. 2:13.]
Their place there find all Heathen blind
that Nature's light abus'd,
Although they had no tidings glad
of Gospel grace refus'd
There stand all Nations and Generations
of Adam's Progeny,
Whom Christ redeem'd not, whom he esteem'd not,
through Infidelity;
XXXV.
[Sidenote: Acts 4:12.]
Who no Peace-maker, no undertaker,
to shroud them from God's ire,
Ever obtain'd; they must be pain'd
with everlasting fire.
These num'rous bands, wringing their hands,
and weeping all stand there,
Filléd with anguish, whose hearts do languish,
through self-tormenting fear.
XXXVI.
[Sidenote: 1 Cor. 6:3.]
Fast by them stand at Christ's left hand,
the Lion fierce and fell,
The Dragon bold, that Serpent old,
that hurried Souls to Hell.
There also stand, under command,
legions of Sprites unclean,
And hellish Fiends, that are no friends
to God, nor unto Men.
XXXVII.
[Sidenote: Jude 6.]
With dismal chains, and strongest reins,
like Prisoners of Hell,
They're held in place before Christ's face,
till He their Doom shall tell.
These void of tears, but fill'd with fears,
and dreadful expectation
Of endless pains and scalding flames,
stand waiting for Damnation.
XXXVIII.
[Sidenote: The Saints cleared and justified.]
All silence keep both Goats and Sheep
before the Judge's Throne;
With mild aspect to his Elect
then speaks the Holy One:
"My Sheep draw near, your Sentence hear,
which is to you no dread,
Who clearly now discern and know
your sins are pardonéd.
XXXIX.
[Sidenote: 2 Cor. 5:10. Eccl. 3:17. John 3:18.]
"'Twas meet that ye should judgéd be,
that so the World may spy
No cause of grudge, when as I judge
and deal impartially.
Know therefore all both great and small,
the ground and reason why
These Men do stand at my right hand
and look so cheerfully.
XL.
[Sidenote: Job 17:6. Eph. 1:4.]
"These Men be those my Father chose
before the World's foundation,
And to me gave, that I should save
from Death and Condemnation;
For whose dear sake I flesh did take,
was of a Woman born,
And did inure myself t' endure
unjust reproach and scorn.
XLI.
[Sidenote: Rev. 1:5.]
"For then it was that I did pass
through sorrows many a one;
That I drank up that bitter Cup
which made me sigh and groan.
The Cross's pain I did sustain;
yea more, my Father's ire
I underwent, my Blood I spent
to save them from Hell-fire.
XLII.
[Sidenote: Eph. 2:1, 3.]
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