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
"Thus I esteeméd, thus I redeeméd
all these from every Nation,
That they may be (as now you see)
a chosen Generation.
What if ere while they were as vile
and bad as any be,
And yet from all their guilt and thrall
at once I set them free?
XLIII.
[Sidenote: Mat. 23:13, 15. Rom. 9:20, 21.]
"My grace to one is wrong to none;
none can Election claim;
Amongst all those their souls that lose
none can Rejection blame.
He that may choose, or else refuse,
all men to save or spill,
May this Man choose, and that refuse,
redeeming whom he will.
XLIV.
[Sidenote: Isa. 53:4, 5, 11.]
"But as for those whom I have chose
Salvation's heirs to be,
I underwent their punishment,
and therefore set them free.
I bore their grief, and their relief
by suffering procur'd,
That they of bliss and happiness
might firmly be assur'd.
XLV.
[Sidenote: Acts 1:3, 48. Jam. 2:18. Heb. 12:7. Mat. 19:29.]
"And this my grace they did embrace,
believing on my Name;
Which Faith was true, the fruits do shew
proceeding from the same;—
Their Penitence, their Pati-ence,
their Love and Self-denial,
In suff'ring losses and bearing Crosses,
when put upon the trial;—
XLVI.
[Sidenote: 1 John 3:3. Mat. 25:39, 40.]
"Their sin forsaking, their cheerful taking
my Yoke, their Charity
Unto the Saints in all their wants,
and in them unto me;—
These things do clear, and make appear
their Faith to be unfeignéd,
And that a part in my desert
and purchase they have gainéd.
XLVII.
[Sidenote: Isa. 53:11, 12. Rom. 8:16, 17, 33, 34. John 3:18.]
"Their debts are paid, their peace is made,
their sins remitted are;
Therefore at once I do pronounce,
and openly declare,
That Heav'n is theirs, that they be Heirs
of Life and of Salvation;
Nor ever shall they come at all
to Death or to Damnation.
XLVIII.
[Sidenote: Luke 22:29, 30. Mat. 19:28.]
"Come blessed Ones and sit on Thrones,
judging the World with me;
Come and possess your happiness,
and bought felicity;
Henceforth no fears, no care, no tears,
no sin shall you annoy,
Nor any thing that grief doth bring:
Eternal Rest enjoy.
XLIX.
[Sidenote: Mat. 25:34. They are placed on Thrones to join with Christ in
judging the wicked.]
"You bore the Cross, you suffer'd loss
of all for my Name's sake;
Receive the Crown that's now your own;
come, and a Kingdom take."
Thus spake the Judge: the wicked grudge
and grind their teeth in vain;
They see with groans these plac'd on Thrones,
which addeth to their pain.
L.
[Sidenote: Cor. 6:2.]
That those whom they did wrong and slay,
must now their Judgment see!
Such whom they slighted and once despited,
must now their Judges be!
Thus 'tis decreed, such is their meed,
and guerdon glorious;
With Christ they sit, judging it fit
to plague the Impious.
LI.
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