The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement
Wigglesworth
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Wigglesworth · 4 chapters
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No Sin so small and trivial, but hither it must come; Nor so long past but now at last it must receive a doom.
“I never knew any of you that wrought Iniquity.
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- Memoir of the Author.Sample
- Autobiography
- To the Christian Reader.
- On the Following Work and its Author.
- A Prayer Unto Christ the Judge of the World.
- The suddenness, Majesty and Terror of Christ’s appearing.
- Resurrection of the Dead.
- The living changed
- Who are Christ’s Sheep.
- The Goats described, or the several sorts of Reprobates on the left hand.
- The Saints cleared and justified.
- They are placed on Thrones to join with Christ in judging the wicked.
- The wicked brought to the Bar.
- Secret sins and works of darkness brought to light.
- An account demanded of all their actions.
- The Judge replyeth.
- Another plea of the Hypocrites.
- The answer.
- Another sort of Hypocrites make their pleas.
- The Judge uneaseth them.
- Are taken off and rendered invalid.
- Those that pretend want of opportunity to repent.
- Are confuted and convicted.
- Who are told that examples are no Rules.
- Some plead the Scripture’s darkness, and difference among Interpreters.
- They are confuted.
- Others the fear of persecution.
- They are answered.
- Others plead for pardon from God’s Mercy and Justice.
- They are answered.
- Mercy now shines forth in the vessels of Mercy.
- Did also wait upon such as abused it.
- Their pleas taken off.
- Heathen men plead want of the Written Word.
- Insufficiency of the light of Nature.
- They are answered.
- Reprobate Infants plead for themselves.
- Their arguments taken off.
- The free gift.
- The wicked all convinced and put to silence.
- Behold the formidable estate of all the ungodly as they stand hopeless and helpless before an impartial Judge, expecting their final Sentence.
- The Judge pronounceth the sentence of condemnation.
- The terror of it.
- It is put in Execution.
- HELL.
- Wicked men and Devils cast into it forever.
- The Saints rejoice to see the Judgment executed upon the Wicked World.
- They ascend with Christ into Heaven triumphing.
- A Short Discourse On Eternity.
- A Postscript Unto The Reader.
- Vanity of Vanities.
- Death Expected and Welcomed.
- A Farewell to the World.
- A Character of the Reverend Author, Mr. Michael Wigglesworth, in a Funeral Sermon Preached at Malden, June 24, 1705. By the Reverend Dr. Cotton Mather.
- Epitaph. (Believed to Have Been Written by Rev. Cotton Mather.) The Excellent Wigglesworth; Remembered by Some Good Tokens.