In jog-trot ballad stanzas with internal rhymes, the minister of Malden pictures the world at ease before Christ returns, the trumpet, the gathering of the dead, and sinner after sinner pleading for mercy before the Judge. This edition adds his shorter poems, a memoir and autobiography, and Cotton Mather’s funeral sermon sketch.
A landmark of Puritan verse and of early American literature, startling in its stern theology. Download the free EPUB.