“The Day of Doom”
(these lines from near the end)
This O New-England hast thou got
By riot, and excess:
This hast thou brought upon thy self
By pride and wantonness.
Thus must thy worldlyness be whipt.
They, that too much do crave,
Provoke the Lord to take away
Such blessings as they have.
We have been also threatened
With worser things than these:
And God can bring them on us still,
To morrow if he please.
For if his mercy be abus’d,
Which holpe us at our need
And mov’d his heart to pitty us,
We shall be plagu’d indeed.
Beware, O sinful Land, beware;
And do not think it strange
That sorer judgements are at hand,
Unless thou quickly change.
Or God, or thou, must quickly change;
Or else thou art undon:
Wrath cannot cease, if sin remain,
Where judgement is begun.
Michael Wigglesworth died this date 6/10/1705, at Malden, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1851. His famous The Day of Doom is thought to have been first published in 1662. (At least one source says he died 5/27/1705.) He appears to have been born in England and that most likely on 10/18/1631.
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