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    The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement
    The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement
    The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement
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    The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement

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    "The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement" by Michael Wigglesworth. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 27, 2019
    ISBN4057664605467
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      The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement - Michael Wigglesworth

      Michael Wigglesworth

      The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664605467

      Table of Contents

      Memoir of the Author.

      Autobiography

      To the Christian Reader.

      On the Following Work and its Author.

      A Prayer Unto Christ the Judge of the World.

      The Day of Doom

      The security of the world before Christ’s coming to judgment.

      The suddenness, Majesty and Terror of Christ’s appearing.

      Resurrection of the Dead.

      The living changed

      The Sheep separated from the Goats.

      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.

      Hypocrites plead for themselves.

      Another plea of the Hypocrites.

      Civil honest men’s pleas.

      Those that pretend want of opportunity to repent.

      Some plead examples of their betters.

      They urge that they were led by godly men’s Examples. But all their shifts turn to their greater shame.

      Some plead the Scripture’s darkness, and difference among Interpreters.

      Others the fear of persecution.

      Others plead for pardon from God’s Mercy and Justice.

      Mercy now shines forth in the vessels of Mercy.

      Did also wait upon such as abused it.

      Some pretend they were shut out of Heaven by God’s Decree.

      Heathen men plead want of the Written Word.

      Reprobate Infants plead for themselves.

      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.

      It is put in Execution.

      The unsufferable torments of the Damned.

      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.

      Memoir of the Author.

      Table of Contents

      The following is the substance of an article published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, for April, 1863, written by John Ward Dean, Esq., of Boston:

      A century ago no poetry was more popular in New England than Wigglesworth’s Day of Doom. Francis Jenks, Esq., in an article in the Christian Examiner for Nov., 1828, speaks of it as a work which was taught our fathers with their catechisms, and which many an aged person with whom we are acquainted can still repeat, though they may not have met with a copy since they were in leading strings; a work that was hawked about the country, printed on sheets like common ballads; and, in fine, a work which fairly represents the prevailing theology of New England at the time it was written, and which Mather thought might, ‘perhaps, find our children till the Day itself arrives.’

      The popularity of Wigglesworth dated from the appearance of his poem, and continued for more than a century. Expressing in earnest words the theology which they believed, and picturing in lively colors the terrors of the judgment day and the awful wrath of an offended God, it commended itself to those zealous Puritans, who had little taste for lofty rhyme or literary excellence. The imaginative youth devoured its horrors with avidity, and shuddered at its fierce denunciation of sin. In the darkness of night he saw its frightful forms arise, and was thus driven to seek the ark of safety from the wrath of Jehovah. For the last century, however, the reputation of the Day of Doom has waned, and few at the present day know it except by reputation.

      The author of this book, whose wand had summoned up such images of terror, was neither a cynic nor a misanthrope, though sickness, which generally brings out these dispositions where they exist, had long been his doom. His attenuated frame and feeble health were joined to genial manners; and, though subject to fits of despondency, he seems generally to have maintained a cheerful temper, so much so that some of his friends believed his ills to be imaginary.

      Rev.Michael Wigglesworth was born October 28, 1631, probably in Yorkshire, England. He was brought to this country in 1638, being then seven years old, but in what ship we are not informed. His father, Edward Wigglesworth, was one of those resolute Puritans who, with their families, found an asylum where they could enjoy their religion without molestation in our then New England wilderness, the distance of which from their English homes can hardly be appreciated now. Here they suffered the severe hardships of a rigorous climate, the fearful dangers from savage tribes around them, while uniting to build up villages which are now cities, and which still retain some of the characteristics of their Puritan founders. The determined purpose and strength of principle that conquered every obstacle was a school of severe training for the children of that period. It was natural that a father who had endured so much for conscience’ sake should desire to see his only son a clergyman; and, although the father’s means were not large, the son was devoted to the ministry and given a thorough education. Michael, after nearly three years of preparatory studies, entered Harvard College in 1647. Here he had the good fortune to have for a tutor the excellent Jonathan Mitchell, the glory of the college, and famous as a preacher. The friendship here begun appears to have continued after both had left the college walls. Probably the eight stanzas on the following work and its author, signed J. Mitchel, were written by that tutor and preacher, who was a native of Yorkshire, the county in which Wigglesworth is believed to have been born.

      In 1651 Mr.Wigglesworth graduated, and was soon after appointed a tutor in the College. Some of his pupils were men of note in their day. Among them were. Rev.Shubael Dummer, of York, Me.; Rev.John Eliot, of Newton; and Rev.Samuel Torry, of Weymouth; but the chief of them, it will be admitted, was Rev.Increase Mather, D.D., pastor of the second church in Boston, and for sixteen years president of Harvard College. That the tutor was faithful to his trust, we have evidence from the sketch of the funeral sermon appended to this work, preached by Rev.Cotton Mather, D.D., son of Increase, who probably derived his information from his father.

      While a tutor, he prepared himself for the ministry, and before his father’s death he had preached several times. He was invited, probably in the autumn of 1654, to settle at Malden, as the successor of Rev.Marmaduke Matthews, but owing to long-continued sickness was not ordained

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