The Day of Doom E-Book

Michael Wigglesworth

• Herausgeber: Skyline
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

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.’”

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Michael Wigglesworth

The Day of Doom

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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

All brought to Judgment.

The Sheep separated from the Goats.

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.

Hypocrites plead for themselves.

The Judge replyeth.

Another plea of the Hypocrites.

The answer.

Another sort of Hypocrites make their pleas.

The Judge uneaseth them.

Civil honest men’s pleas.

Are taken off and rendered invalid.

Those that pretend want of opportunity to repent.

Are confuted and convicted.

Some plead examples of their betters.

Who are told that examples are no Rules.

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.

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.

The day of Grace now past

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

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 unsufferable torments of the Damned.

The Saints rejoice to see the Judgment executed upon the Wicked World.

They ascend with Christ into Heaven triumphing.

Their eternal happiness and incomparable glory there.

A Short Discourse On Eternity.

Eternity! Eternity!

A Postscript Unto The Reader.

Vanity of Vanities.

A SONG OF EMPTINESS.

Death Expected and Welcomed.

A Farewell to the World.

Epitaph. (Believed to Have Been Written by Rev. Cotton Mather.) The Excellent Wigglesworth; Remembered by Some Good Tokens.

Memoir of the Author.

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