Nor have they aught within their thought,
The poem narrates the events of the Second Coming of Christ, the Last Judgment of the living and dead souls, and the departure of the saved for heaven and the damned for hell. Or fathom it by depth of Wit,
Or in thy creature-comforts take delight? Whereby he doth great multitudes beguile. Why still Hell-ward, without regard,
like guilty Malefactors,
And never had or good or bad
But from the womb unto the tomb
Unto my holy Table? If you had lovd, and well improvd
through sloth and frailty slumberd. but barren empty things;
to all Eternity. Eternal health,
though dying every day;
to bring us to the sight
through Infidelity; Who no Peace-maker, no undertaker,
The poem describes the Day of Judgment, on which a vengeful God judges and sentences all men, going into detail as to the various categories of people who think themselves excusable who will nonetheless end up in Hell. together gathering
Save unto God in Christ alone. Than all the good things upon Earth,
A Postscript unto the Reader
Would you have grievd to have receivd
Oh! God cannot take delight
and pains that last for ever;
put not off Repentance till to-morrow,
For Mercys day is past away
that just are all his ways. think they, and livd above. legions of Sprites unclean. and Hymns that never end;
I underwent, my Blood I spent
that so the World may spy
Wigglesworth starts the poem with a calm night that seems serene and normal. That men should die eternally
they quit their wonted steads. And cast them all, both great and small,
And made them sport that were his enemies;
Although I am surrounded
[7]. Their people revered them, were constant in attendance on their services, and submitted gladly to their sway. Winter approaching we dwelt in a cellar partly under ground covered with earth the first winter. Dead bodies all rise at his call,
You, sinful Crew, have not been true
and of long life devisd. to all their villainy. His Masters will how to fulfil
who can bear his indignations heat? no floods of tears can slake;
Prepare for Death, be ready for his Call. But every one that hath misdone
and quite defacd the same,
that work iniquity,
and signd to be destroyd ? And that he may most justly do it still,
from such a fearful state. And to obey, as he doth say,
Ms. Vallow Daybell is being tried in connection with the deaths of two of her children and her husband's previous wife. Wigglesworth calls Bunker pastor in some verses composed on his death, while on the title-page of this, work he calls himself teacher. After Wigglesworth became sole minister, he was probably considered the pastor. Poetical Description
(their hearts were not sincere,)
or Grace to us to tender,
Which is th Unchristian use and trade
2 Thes. As for your care to get a share
that life that will endure! Whom Christ redeemd not, whom he esteemd not,
That, that alone can do away thy sin,
nor scape out of his hand. And think you by Hypocrisy,
Divine Justice offended is,
Therefore, for fear, we durst appear
when put upon the trial;. Such empty shadows, such wild Fowl as these,
Both good and bad, both Quick and Dead,
To wicked men, their bretheren
Dimness of sight, and want of light,
none can Rejection blame. who well the danger knew. that stand at his left hand,
so none can quench the same,). Shut up from speaking much in sickly Cave,
Nothing remains but stopping of thy breath,
know a Christians task? To wax more bold in disobedience? Who had no care to get a share
Consider this, all ye that God forget,
You little card, nor once prepard
and add to thine Account:
Mr.Wigglesworth had at least three wives: Mary, daughter of Humphrey Reyner, of Rowley; Martha, whose maiden name was probably Mudge; and Sybil, widow of Dr.Jonathan Avery, of Dedham, and daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk, of Cambridge. Soul, take thine ease, let sorrow cease;
If I to none my Grace had shown
In 1651 Mr.Wigglesworth graduated, and was soon after appointed a tutor in the College. With Iron bands they bind their hands
Yet on us all of his sad Fall
Thee, thee alone Ill invocate,
To be withheld from serving Christ;
Twas no vain task to knock and ask,
The wicked brought to the Bar
Should they betake themselves, and make
Before the opportunity be past. Yea, come and hasten our Redemption-day. And Heathenish Impiety
Great Grief of Mind by being Impotent,
8:16, 17, 33, 34. to rescue and secure,
all Christs afflicted ones,
are made to die no moe. To lie in woe and undergo
from thee Eternally! You that could preach, and others teach
Would not it raise thine endless praise,
Of Judgment dread, Hell, Heaven, Eternity,
Gods face with all your hearts,
that perish in the birth? And plainly shews that all their shows
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And wicked Sprites by subtile sleights
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all to his voice attend:
Meanwhile stand fast, the Truth of God maintain,
who was the chief offender;
where face to face
That thou the things of thine own peace
Literary Devices the punishments inflicted. naught changd their sinful course? (But nothing else) in Furnace firy. No heart so bold, but now grows cold,
a number, numberless,
why judgments so severe. Our only guide, as hath been tried,
There also stand, under command,
of Woe and Misery. More terrible than ever you were told. and interrupt their peace. Stout Courages, (whose hardiness
93 subscribers Off-screen, Eric reads Stanzas 1 through 21 of "The Day of Doom", published in 1662, by Puritan poet Michael Wigglesworth. All men did not contemn. they cease, and plead no longer;
The time is short you have to serve him here;
Nor on my terms Eternal Life embrace. Twas meet that ye should judgd be,
A favor was that far did pass
of thy dear Love to us,
Psal. Your argument shews your intent
Which art with lingering sickness worn away;
to be the wickeds scorn. The Sheep separated from the goats
and pardon us this day! Soul, take thine ease, let sorrow cease, much good thou hast in store: This was their Song, their Cups among, But all things here are vexing Vanity. their very tongues in twain;
That from your birth you livd on earth,
He died on Sunday morning, June 10, 1705, in the 74th year of his age. professing Piety,
The plot is quite simple; indeed it's a given, to any believer. They praise his Name and do proclaim
And justify all those that on him trust;
or imitate their grace. Of my Felicity the Hastener. Doth me by force restrain. Of Blind Heathen and brutish men,
hath fresh possession taken;
but that thou mayst go on
A very David for his charge unto them to Know the God of their Father and Serve Him! gives you no ground of strife. your own Deceits retain. and grudge at others weal? your lives to regulate. But Christ be thankd, through whose Mediation
No mothers son but hath misdone,
your way and work hath been
and rendreth you more base. The tender Mother will own no other
of Gods long-suffering
Your souls, and there be no deliverer. The best of them would you condemn,
And when most needed take them to their wings. 66:34., Rev.20:12, 15, compared with Rom. Clothd with Strength and Immortality;
the which vexation brings. As things Divine, they Seal and Sign
than all they feel beside;
And turn to God in time ere his Decree
Vain, frail, sliort-livd, and miserable Man,
Can anything from him conceald be,
Heb. No warning could prevail; you would
They all draw near and seek to clear
By his first wife he had (1) Mercy b. Feb., 1655-6; m. 1st, [Samuel?] Nor from true Love, which wont to move
When he shall thus with thee expostulate:
And unto thee Ill speak a little more. unto this present day,
Church-robbers we were none,
To see his Conquest bounded by the Deep,
is that which he doth prize;
To bear thy Soul in everlasting Arms,
The Day of Doom Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement Transcriber's Note: Biblical references were originally present as side notes rather than footnotes. Yet left undone his duty known,
Thus to obey hath been our way;
Who know withal that nothing shall
Where many of our Friends are gone before,
A collection of poems on the theme of salvation and damnation, the work centers on the title poem, "The Day of Doom," and includes numerous poetic addresses to the reader, prayers, and short. Salvations heirs to be,
with Christ in Heavn above! 2:8, 9., Ezek. That oftentimes of bloody Crimes
whose fruit was interdicted;
Of those that thine Inhabitants have been! Wherefore those Seals and precious Meals
Then answerd the Judge most dread:
or disobedience. They hasten to the Pit of Woe,
Now whilst the day and means of Grace do last,
Because that they brought to decay
In the first quatrain, the speaker says that love"the marriage of true minds"is perfect and unchanging; it does not "admit impediments," and it does not change when it find changes in the loved one. Sinners awake, their hearts do ache,
With greater force and violence,
lo, Israels Holy One! And fill thy soul with his amazing terrors,
The next colleague of our author was Bev. Prov. Monuments and statues, howsoever ornate and rich, fail to immortalize the rich and the powerful. The God of Heaven knows
were it not for thee,
So shalt thou be assurd of
Secret sins brought to light
Later editions included scripture references in the margins, and the connections are clear: each verse of the poem was inspired by a particular scripture passage. Our Wigglesworth was a Godly child, and he held on living to God and Christ until the Seventy-Fourth Year of his Age. by your own Righteousness,
which is to you no dread,
compard therewithal. 2:18. Take up your Cross, prepare for Tribulation,
They thought of many years, as thou dost now,
[2] Sales of The Day of Doom soon exceeded Wigglesworth's pastoral salary (which had been significantly cut while he was unable to fulfill pastoral duties he worked a side-job as a physician to provide sufficient income for his large household). at last must have a vent. the whole should off be set? For at midnight breaks forth a light,
5:16. Before his face the Heavns give place,
cold comfort and mean support,
Or that thine own transgressi-ons are more
Of all things done under the Sun,
believing on my Name;
and guileful generation! When trid, proves so small,
And that those Torments are an hundred fold
Oh! 6 pages Without it, can afford. Upon thy Death-bed for thy sins to mourn;
What if ere while they were as vile
Evn whilst I feel his Rod? Die fain they would if die they could,
to such as are rejected;
That they must there be made to bear
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and honor you the more. Michael, after nearly three years of preparatory studies, entered Harvard College in 1647. Great things cannot produce ;
when Grace was freely proflferd,
A separation and diffring station
Read whoso list, and ponder what he reads,
Thence painful seizure hath to write the more. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Thou who this morning art a lively wight,
Becomes a Preacher, who mens Souls doth prize,
O happy Dogs, and Swine, and Frogs,
33:11. They are arraignd, and there detaind
The poem's tone is paradoxically both threatening and paternal. they out of hopes are put. whose number far surmount
The more he drinks the more he still requires,
Since God Almighty doth himself engage
no better than our mates.. Lift up your heads, ye upright ones in heart,
C. S. Westcott & Co., Printers, 79 John street. Affliction turnd his Pen to Poetry,
should they themselves apply? nor Cyphers make a Sum;
and will your boasting mar. This World hath stood now since the Flood,
and upon God to call. Make him your Light, your Life, your End, your All;
And of Gods Image made to be partaker:
Thou art become as rich, as whilom poor;
Who died in infancy,
(with just austerity)
nor wrought an awful fear? You bore the Cross, you sufferd loss
sinners at all conceal,
They draw mens Souls into Perditi-on,
This was to Mortify in himself the Sins rarely minded by the most of men. Stout Hannibal, Romes Terror known so far? our lives and our estates;
Whose little heart would all the World contain,
in endless Happiness. To use such strife, a tempral life
His long Weakness and Illness made him an able Physician for the Body as well the Soul. There to remain and there to reign
Should hire me to forbear. Acts 17:31. and throughly hate all sin,
We holiness durst not profess,
The Day of Doom begins with the people surprised by judgment, many seeking to hide from it; details how Saints and Sinners are separated, each receiving absolute judgment; then concludes with images of Hell's eternal torments as contrasted with Heaven's eternal glory. Farewell, sweet Saints of God, Christs little Number,
How we were born and lay forlorn
to bound Eternity. vile men to imitate.. Or wilt thou be eternally accurst,
Tell him thou knowst thine heart to be so bad,
As if Gods wrath could do less scath
In any deed that doth proceed
to lade the Ocean dry
This is their state so desperate;
He predicts its aftereffects on the slave and America before elaborating on the nature of the nation's . To leave those wicked haunts that thou dost love. by suffering procurd. Yet when time was thou mightst have been set free
unto the Light of Nature,
As old Transgressors leave their wonted sin. The similarities and contrasts to other hellfire and brimstone preaching and writing are interesting: this does not fit exactly into the typical paradigm. Thy peril greater than thou wilt believe. Yet have I stood some shocks that might
is more than intolerable. many a wretched wight.. Then wicked men (and not till then)
Thus one and all, thus great and small,
which made me sigh and groan. I may deny you once to try,
Where day and night, without respite, they wail, and cry, and howl for tort'ring pain, which they sustain in Body and in Soul. To please your kin, mens love to win,
Daniel Saul Baker. From running headlong to thine own decay,
The same translates from Mortal states
hath us undone, undone!. and utterly undone us. And be no more as heretofore
The Sea doth roar, forsakes the shore,
He preached for some time in different parishes, and in 1722 was installed Hollis Professor of Divinity of Harvard College. Oh, do not us destroy!, You neer abusd, nor yet refusd
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. Though formerly this faculty
Which Law is just; and therefore must
And dewy Drops that on the tops
Thy Written Word, say they, good Lord,
It was Free Grace that any space
and that most men are liars,
Sabbath-polluters, Saints-persecutors,
God knows the verity,
although their plagues be sore,
Wigglesworth stayed quite limited to scripture itself. By force they take, and quickly make
that other you had none. in which their words do steep. and wondrously distress,
And eke my Sprite to frame you right,
How often hath my Spirit been withstood,
For the sad state of her dear Mate,
That I drank up that bitter Cup
From whence no price should ever ransom it;
O sad estate and desperate,
doth unto judgment bring. That Heavn is theirs, that they be Heirs
Who for self-ends did seem Christs friends,
In Christian Poets may be found,
and slight your souls welfare? a Song of endless Praise;
Whom for his own, by ways unknown
Had you good leisure for carnal Pleasure,
For there the Saints are perfect Saints,
to plague the Impious. Painful dispensers of his Holy Word,
will suddenly be past;
to save them from Hell-fire. I shewd a way of life,
30:33. When they remind whats still behind
And make their Tongue to cleave unto its roof. Mans wit and thought: they all are brought
and means of life contemnd. A Government Driver on his Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines (33). and patience would have shown
And each offense with evidence,
Have publishd for thine use. He is become thy Father and thy Friend,
The wicked all convinced and silenced
You put away the evil day,
Who hath paid dear for Mans Redempti-on. Thou knowst right well, who all canst tell,
Nor such as trust in them can they secure
In number than the sands upon the Shore? all men to save or spill,
nor can she shed a tear
224. might firmly be assurd. Because gainst light they sinnd with spite,
And to make out after the Remedy. From dismal days, or Deaths prevailing powr. Like Champions stood and with their Blood
And you are cast into the Lake forever! 32:2., Compare Prov. The Day of Doom is a 224-stanza poem about Judgment Day. That lovd true dealing and hated stealing,
if God did not prevent. In the first stanza of 'An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum,' Stephen Spender presents the images of the children studying in the elementary school. Acts 13:46. The lightest pain they there sustain
Both Sea and Land at his command,
And them among an Infant throng
How oft have I stood knocking at thy door,
Short was our time, for in its prime
5:10. and shrinks away for fear;
Rom. themselves annihilate. 47 terms. By means of those whom thou has chose
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. when your hands and feet are bound together,
who did the same deprave? that hang those Trees upon:
With chords of love God often strove
by force, or fraud, or stealth. Whom, wanting other means, I would
I am, alas! That I am growing stronger,
did still resist the same. themselves and many moe. Thou wonderest, perhaps,
those Grace was small, but grew;
in thousand miles Progress: The sum is vast, yet not so vast
How came your mind to be so blind? which was not yours to take,
Such are the men whom worldly eyes admire,
He was brought to this country in 1638, being then seven years old, but in what ship we are not informed. to know, or studid;
of all her grievances,
Is this the fruit of Gods great patience,
of Christ the Judge is brought,
What! or misry to bemoan. 16 terms. It pleased God, when the distress of the Church in Malden did extremely call for it, wondrously to restore his Faithful Servant. Through which doth lie the way unto salvation. I often stood tendring my Blood
Under a heavy Chain;
Renownd Pompey, Caesars Enemy? Because the Lord was good hast thou been evil,
or in Mens sins delight;
And make his wishes more intemperate? But for his Will to do whats ill,
such as might not deceive,
such as it was, did spring
Then were brought in and chargd with sin,
To whom the Lord, thus in a word,
But I remember that one great rain, brake in upon us and drencht me so in my bed, being asleep, that I fell sick upon it; but ye Lord in mercy spard my life and restored my health. When th Elements with fervent heat shall melt,
Christ readily makes this Reply:
9:30, 32. and sufferings expire. To every sin, you livd therein,
To be releasd, or to be easd,
This early popularity did not prevent early 20th century scholars of literature and scholars of the colonial period more broadly from strongly criticizing The Day of Doom as dull, uncreative, and depressing. so was our purpose stopt. That able are themselves to clear,
And their own lustre reaves them of their sight. A little longer, and myself refresh
You oft were told, and might behold,
She depicts a world in these short seven stanzas that is doomed to fall apart and be rebuilt. Earths dwellers all, both great and small,
They cry, No, no, Alas! And teach the Sons of Men thy ways. God makes no treasure, nor hath he pleasure
Thus prays thy real Friend
and feed on Heavnly Cheer? And many wicked wandrings every day? In the second quatrain, the speaker . For as the Tree doth fall, right so it lies,
What injury hath God Almighty done thee? The references for each stanza were collected into a single footnote, as the references are mostly generic to the action of the stanza. Another edition appeared in 1751, Printed and sold by Thomas Fleet, at the Heart and Crown, in Cornhill, Boston. And unto broken Pits thyself betake? Clearness of sight and judgment light:
yea, Serpents generation! too dim was Natures Light,
the friendship of my Father.. The best of men had scarcely then
The Amorites and Sodomites,
God hath no joy to crush or stroy,
This letter, addressing the Church of Christ at Maldon, states that the good hand of Divine Providence hath so disposed that our beloved and highly esteemed brother, Mr.Wigglesworth, hath his residence and is employed in the good work of ye Lord amongst you, and hath cause to desire of us Letters Dismissive to your church, in order to his joining as a member with you.. In verse XVI, he wrote And therefore I must pass it by, lest speaking should transgress. This describes immediately his reluctance to describe God's glory, but it is also true in a broader sense. Awake, awake, and then thou shalt perceive
Farewell, again, until we all appear
Farewell, my natural Friends and dear Relations,
their birth and Education? Theres but a step between thy Soul and Death;
If not, can you speculate why not? much more intolerable;
Who in Christs purchase have obtaind a part. to flow in worldly wealth,
As had been your for evermore,
To walk through th other World! upholds them in the fire,
and pleasures in his Grace,
What horrors will your Consciences surprise,
Not long afterward he was chosen one of the fellows of the corporation. And by the end which they intend
God doth desire and eke require,
We hated vice and set great price,
Thou hast a Soul, my Friend, and so have I,
in deed thereof deniers. Eschew Will-worship and Idolatry. Then were brought nigh a Company
just were the Recompense;
And that you ought that which was naught
Those faculties of Reason and of Will,
The friendship here begun appears to have continued after both had left the college walls. A Short discourse on Eternity
All other Friends are fading Vanities. their Lamps kept in good ure. With Other Poems. than is the smallest tittle. You have yourselves, you and none else,
Thy Soul, to save it from eternal harm. have wrought iniquity,
(Or at the least ere they transgressd)
We should have mournd, we should have turnd
Behold he rides upon a shining cloud,
What gaind David by his Bathshebah? and your own selves admire. forevr immortal made. When he lay a Dying, some one spoke to him about his having secured his Interest in the Favor of Heaven, and his Assurance of that Interest. Eternity! Analysis Of The Day Of Doom By Michael Wigglesworth 716 Words3 Pages Michael Wigglesworth writes a religious poem, "Day of Doom", also known as "A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment." The poem describes the day of judgement, in which God sentences men to either heaven or hell. amazon.com, Fire
Oh! Isa. The thought of this more bitter is
that riches got too fast:
the Judge then answerd;
Nor any ransom after death procure;
Upon the wings of noblest Faculties,
Oh happy they that live for aye,
which lasteth evermore? Already brought to ruin and confusion,
Cannot his Mercy great,
And all their love be turnd into hate. Rom 6:23. the means of life to use;
And yet they worship worse than naught. This poem is written about judgement day. and sorrows many a one;
There must they lie and never die,
there felt is incomparable;
if not themselves to clear. have we so oft partaken;
do stand the Judge before. Oh! At Judgment under Wrath thou shalt be found;
Isa. A world that accepted Michael Wigglesworth for its poet, and accounted Cotton Mather its most distinguished man of letters, had certainly backslidden in the ways of culture.[6] The poem is a "doggerel epitome of Calvinistic theology", according to the anthology, Colonial Prose and Poetry (1903). Yet took no pain true Faith to gain,
whither shall they
You that the dead have quickened,
there leave we them to burn,
Of all the things that thou hast said or done. Bring forth, and then there be no Remedy. And lose thy soul and self eternally? And Death surprise thee in a state of nature,
Mean fruit it is, and vile, I wiss,
How can it be that God should see
To execute due vengeance upon those
Pride, the Sin of Young Men, yea, of all Men; Pride, the Sin which few Men try or trouble themselves about; this Devout Youth was full of Holy and Watchful Trouble about it: And he then wrote a very Savoury Discourse, Entituled, Considerations against Pride, and another, Entituled, Considerations against Delighting more in the Creature than in God. Where Floods, where Flames, where Foes cannot bereave him! Nor utterly true sanctity
Then sinful men may break their pen,
He took a short voyage unto another Country for the Recovery of his Health; which, though he recovered not, yet at his Return I find him comforting himself with inserting of this Passage in his Reserved Papers: Peradventure the Lord Removed me for a season that he might set a better Watchman over his Flock, and a more painful Laborer in his Vineyard. What! By his third wife, Sybil, who d. 6th Aug., 1708, a. that sets his heart upon
Ezek. Who usd vile ways themselves to raise
and blameless carriages. That all the wicked into Hell be cast! After reading, think again of the present day: what kinds of "cultural
And now for love you vengeance prove,
no less than honesty. Yourselves were dead, yet neer needd
Of more than ten years length;
Thus Christ detects their vain projects,
Oh! and cursd feet together,
Oh! than wrath of bretheren! Behold how bright
and cloakd Wickedness,
had thus yourselves behavd. They did repent and truly rent
Unto that rich Inheritance in Light. That for a time they naught discern aright,
Then, ah! Whose souls are now reservd in iron chains,
While absent on his voyage in search of health, Dec. 9, 1663, Rev.Benjamin Bunker was ordained pastor of the church at Malden. If rightly understood. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord, 1867, by. the Rich as well as Poor,
Yet Christ his Blood can cleanse thee thoroughly. Nor so long past but now at last
that Natures light abusd,
In such a perilous and deadly way. if you in time had known
Come blessed Ones and sit on Thrones,
ways of the Puritan faith, and many late-17th century New Englanders probably
and thus my Grace confine? I was born of Godly Parents, that feared ye Lord greatly, even from their youth, but in an ungodly Place, where ye generality of ye people rather derided than imitated their piety; in a place where, to my knowledge, their children had Learnt wickedness betimes; in a place that was consumed with fire in a great part of it, after God had brought them out of it. When opend is the door. to teach us the right way:
Not that his style is wholly prosaic, for there are passages in his writings that are truly poetical, both in thought and expression, and which show that he was capable of attaining a higher position as a poet than can now be claimed for him. Justice demands at all your hands
so far as you were able,
and dreaded Presence shun. Not only on the acti-on,
to make Apology. To kick against the bowels of his Love? Death expected
and quite disgrace my Cheer? And be convincd of our unworthiness. and all to Judgment bring. They were Bible students and men of prayer. of wonted Clemency,
But oh! For this is all the Cordi-al
Rule Earth below, and Heavn ahove. They cry, they roar for anguish sore,
You sinners are, and such a share
Farewell, I say, with your Fools Paradise,
Behold thou dost ten thousand Talents owe;
His second Son, more beautiful than good. Our painful teaching and powrful preaching
49:7, 17. of Herbs and Plants do stand: Number the Sand upon the Strand,
in a tempestuous showr; Who put away the evil day,
But were deceivd quite, and so mayst thou. And all the Hosts of damnd Ghosts
Whose everlasting strength
Adventure not, without Gods leave, to borrow
The precise date of his ordination is not known, but it must have been subsequent to August 25, 1656, for his letter of dismission from the church at Cambridge bears that date. Who doth the hidden things of darkness see? And yet from all their guilt and thrall
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. You would have sought light as you ought,
To cast off awe of Gods strict law,
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