Or else to bring us daily to confess,
in 1662 through the "half-way covenant") probably gave the poem special
as sinners, may expect;
the season being past,
Who to the Pulpit dwell so nigh,
in thousand miles Progress: The sum is vast, yet not so vast
John 3:18., John 3:19, etc. Had we applied ourselves and tried
And what are Friends but mortal men as we,
They ascend in triumph to Heaven
To enter in laden with sin,
5:16., Mat. Who cursd die shall cursd still remain. and cloakd Wickedness,
and trespass would disown. are they not marvellous? By force they take, and quickly make
By one small thread, and carst not thou a whit? and upon God to call. to shroud them from Gods ire. Ezek. Great and Last
Which set the Earths Foundati-ons on fire. nor wrought an awful fear? Die fain they would if die they could,
beyond account there stood. He stood and fell, did ill or well,
Where lasting Pleasures are, before Christs face. Gen.2 : 17. But we were blind, say they, in mind;
wonts not from pride to shoot. With Other Poems. Let this awaken thy security,
A Cockle-shell may serve as well
11:6. Who better knew, but (sinful Crew)
To whom the Judge: Where you allege
If such a friend should break thy door and wake thee,
Until thy Soul be washd in the flood
His long Weakness and Illness made him an able Physician for the Body as well the Soul. Who doth the hidden things of darkness see? is an equal thing. and utterly undone us. could them have harmd never. are thrilld as with a sword. we livd amongst thy foes. And as all facts, and grosser acts,
nor Cyphers make a Sum;
Reader, I am a fool,
in Bliss; the fear of Hell,
And taken part against him with the Devil? And what I only prize. Yet also tell him that, if he shall please,
Lift up the head, shake off all dread,
For Sidon and for Sodoms Land
Thy cause or for thy Soul to intercede:
Upon them, thus retort:
and to their windows run. No sorrow like to this. And unto thee Ill speak a little more. If they had borne my griefs,
much more intolerable;
I frankly shall bestow,
And by the same we got a name
but now must not come near. Words that contain in them A History of a Life more Valuable than I have seen a Volume in Folio. Soul, take thine ease, let sorrow cease, much good thou hast in store: This was their Song, their Cups among, the Evening before. how they have livd, and why. such as might not deceive,
of high or low degree:
But unto Hell thou must perforce be sent,
There also stand a numrous band,
you dream of acceptation;
The ill health which had delayed his ordination at Malden returned soon after his settlement there, and interrupted his ministry several years. 26:75. But ten days after, what I feel
Whose flaming Eye hid things doth spy,
They draw down wrath (as Scripture saith)
to plead their cause, theres none;
The Day of Doom
do stand the Judge before. You chose the way to your decay,
But oh! All men did not contemn. They hasten to the Pit of Woe,
But if, man, thou livst a Christless creature,
your actions had it shown:
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We may allege, thou gavst a pledge
That I thine holy Name may praise. You say youve been my Presence in;
By means of those whom thou has chose
And to make out after the Remedy. lewd ways we did eschew;
you may not hope to dwell;
To beg his Grace till he thy suit shall hear;
By their example that had more ample
And been denied entrance evermore? and savd from his trespass,
Lest into pieces he begin to tear
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We sinners were, say they, tis clear,
when fifty thousand year,
From whence no price should ever ransom it;
From Caves, from mouth of Graves that Singer sweet
which is their just desert? But what was hard you never card
To wax more bold in disobedience? the means of life to use;
compassions skirt to throw,
To manifest he doth detest,
Yourselves were dead, yet neer needd
It pleased God, when the distress of the Church in Malden did extremely call for it, wondrously to restore his Faithful Servant. Find some regard and some reward
to silence and to shame,
The World so wide is but a stride,
the direful pains of Hell,
You little card, nor once prepard
I have in thee enjoyd but little Pleasure. To read throughout and heed what went before;
Amazeth Nature, and every Creature
Plead for thyself, if thou hast aught to say,
But Adams guilt our souls hath spilt,
Thoult praise the Cook, and say, Tis choicest Food. was of a Woman born. Where Gods fierce Ire kindleth the fire,
My clieerfulness to fail,
Oh wondrous happiness. Another day to spend upon thy lust,
And that he might yet more Faithfully set himself to do Good, when he could not Preach, he Wrote several Composures, wherein he proposed the Edification of such Readers, as are for plain Truths dressed up in a Plain Meter. Friends stand aloof and make no proof
It so stingeth and tortureth,
Where was your strife to gain that life
to bound Eternity. With a rare Faithfulness did he adorn that Station! and naught shall them annoy,
fearing to be forlorn
No tongue would ask no eye would mourn. Because gainst light they sinnd with spite,
Exaggerate and cumulate
proclaiming th Day of Doom;
When did they ever satisfy desire? hath usd to despise,
While he was thus withheld from his ministry, he employed his time in literary labors. To lie in woe and undergo
(As who can tell but that may be thy case?) in Heavns bright Canopy
power of presentation. 5:12, 14 and 9:11, 13. Yet sorrows not thereat a jot,
The hideous noise of their sad voice
With hellish rage, him fiercely persecuting,
Soul, take thine ease, let sorrow cease, much good thou hast in store: This was their Song, their Cups among, How full of Satisfaction! or imitate their grace. It was written by Michael Wigglesworth, a New England puritan minister, and printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1662. God doth such doom forbid,
To save or lose; a Soul that cannot die;
and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings, The
And find thee unprepard. This makes men bite, for fell despite,
They will not mourn to see them burn,
Gods face with all your hearts,
And send thee Counsels from the mouth o th Grave. Heb. To see his Conquest bounded by the Deep,
or sands upon the shore. But Christ be thankd, through whose Mediation
A very David for his charge unto them to Know the God of their Father and Serve Him! Even many who consider them erroneous in doctrine, are willing to allow that they were strict in morals; that, if they were wrong in faith, they were right in life; that, if their creed was opaque, their hearts were luminous; and that, if their vision did not discern the additional light which the saintly Robinson had prophesied was yet to break forth from Gods Word, they sincerely accepted the light they saw. Thee, thee alone Ill invocate,
to any of this Crew. wouldst thou take his kindness in ill part,
[4], At the funeral of Michael Wigglesworth, Cotton Mather preached, describing the circumstances of the book for which the deceased was best known: in places under ground:
This of my Sorrows was an aggravation;
Of those that thine Inhabitants have been! Such fair pretenses are foul offenses,
In 1686 he preached an Election Sermon, which was printed by the colony. God gracious is, quoth he; like his,
Vain hopes are cropt, all mouths are stopt,
Or fathom it by depth of Wit,
To please your kin, mens love to win,
To such as put it off until they die. Why sinful pleasures and earthly treasures,
you never practisd. judging the World with me;
Exod. Great truths to dress in Meter. Are quite abasht, their courage dasht,
In any deed that doth proceed
And Reasons eye in Spirtual things dim-sighted,
Thou shalt not henceforth be a clog to me. both known and hidden things. Acts 13:46. to you this Recompense;
But all are gone, for Death will have no Nay. On the following Work
Ah! Nor that I am disconsolate,
But when I was now in my fourteenth year, my Father, who I suppose was not wel satisfied in keeping me from Learning whereto I had been designed from my infancy, and not judging me fit for husbandry, sent me to school again, though at that time I had little or no disposition to it, but I was willing to submit to his authority therein and accordingly I went to school under no small disadvantage and discouragement, seing those that were far inferior to me, by my discontinuance now gotten far before me. How durst you venture bold guests to enter
In vain do they for Mercy pray,
And in his Christ he is with thee well pleasd. The mean Mechanic finds his kindly rest;
a thousand pounds and more. you could have been content,
Who drawing nigh to the Most High,
when she his doom doth hear. Rev.Dr.Peabody calls him a man of the beatitudes. Obedience to the supreme law gave a heavenly lustre to his example and a sweet fragrance to his memory. Yet craves again without a new supply. How could we Hell avoid,
Wherein you must eternally remain
Make stronger men to reel. their sins are fully known;
Nor by rebellion aggravate thy crime. then speaks the Holy One:
Through which, whilst others sleep, they scarcely Nap,
Gods Laws express that righteousness
Who hath paid dear for Mans Redempti-on. Day of Doom StanzaS 189-205 michael Wigglesworth [ 189 ] O dismal day! Although the thing be small,
As if Gods wrath could do less scath
Unto his Watchful and Painful Essays to keep them close under their Academical Exercises he added Serious Admonitions unto them about their Interior State; and he Employed his Prayers and Tears to God for them, and had such a flaming zeal to make them worthy Men, that upon Reflection he was afraid Lest his cares for their Good, and his affection to them, should so drink up his very Spirit, as to steal away his Heart from God. when put upon the trial;. The next colleague of our author was Bev. For after this short life is at an end,
Virtue divine and genuine
Nor from true Faith, which quencheth wrath,
Conformd so their Lord unto,
think they, and livd above. That they must there be made to bear
Yet to compare your sin with their
Who hath not me forsaken. It is in vain your wits to strain
We thought our sin had pardond been,
that wrought Iniquity. Till Juno, Venus, Mercury,
Make Christ your greatest Friend, who never dies;
He wanting help was fain to take me off from school to follow other employments for ye space of 3 or 4 years, until I had lost all that I had gained in the Latin Tongue. Again you thought and mainly sought
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