  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. A Short Discourse On Eternity. A Character of the Reverend Author, Mr. Michael Wigglesworth, Epitaph. (Believed to Have Been Written by Rev. Cotton Mather.) Transcriber’s Note: Biblical references were originally present as side notes rather than footnotes. The references for each stanza were collected into a single footnote, as the references are mostly generic to the action of the stanza. The summaries, also present as side notes, have been moved to precede the stanza to which they were attached. The Day of Doom; Or, a By Michael Wigglesworth, A.M., 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; Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord, 1867, by Wm. Henry Burr, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. C. S. Westcott & Co., Printers, 79 John street. |
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