Note 6 — [1] The Epistle to the READER.
Reading edition
See Vol. I, Pages 121-2. Cotemporary with the Author, we find that eminent Divine, Michael Wigglesworth, thus poetically impressing upon the Readers of his Poem the Horrors spoken of in the Text:
Whom having brought as they are taught, Unto the Brink of Hell, (That Dismal Place far from Christs Face, Where Death and Darkness dwell: Where Gods fierce Ire kindleth the Fire, And Vengeance feeds the Flame With Piles of Wood, and Brimstone Flood, That none can quench the same.
Day of Doom, Stanza 208.