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Readers who love early American history, Puritan faith and old ballad verse will enjoy this book. It also suits those drawn to vivid courtroom drama at the world's end.
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Picture a quiet night, with all the world asleep. Everyone sleeps after an evening of drinking, sure that nothing will ever change. Then, at midnight, a light brighter than noon floods the sky, and a cry shakes every bed. This is how The Day of Doom begins.
Michael Wigglesworth wrote the poem about 1662, as minister at Malden, Massachusetts. Illness kept him out of the pulpit, so he preached with his pen. He turned the Last Judgment into rhymed ballad verse, with a great trial where every kind of sinner pleads before Christ. You get a clear plan and an argument about grace and guilt that shaped a colony.
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- 1A sick minister turns his pulpit into rhymeFree
- 2Judgment arrives when the world feels safest
- 3The dead rise and are sorted into two groups
- 4Christ explains his grace and calls the wicked forward
- 5Hypocrites and honest neighbors both lose their pleas
- 6Excuses about time, examples and Scripture fail
- 7The hardest questions about mercy, decree and Adam
- 8Sentence, eternity and the shorter poems that follow
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A sick minister turns his pulpit into rhyme
Michael Wigglesworth was born in 1631 and came to New England in 1638 at the age of seven. His Puritan father left a comfortable home to worship freely. The family spent its first winter near New Haven in a cellar dug into the ground.
The father wanted a clergyman for a son. Michael learned Latin, entered Harvard in 1647, graduated in 1651 and stayed on as a tutor. In his own short life story he says he first studied for praise and rank, and then found a change of heart that turned him toward the ministry.
In 1656 he was ordained at Malden, but sickness kept returning. For years he could hardly preach, and a sea voyage to Bermuda in 1663 brought little relief. He writes that being kept from serving Christ is the sorest pain he knows. So he turned to the pen and wrote The Day of Doom.
The poem was an instant success. The first edition sold out within a year, and old people recited it long afterward.
The poem is the work of a sick minister who made his pulpit out of rhyme.
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Who’s who
- Christ
- Christ presides as judge over all humanity and answers the arguments offered by those awaiting judgment.
- The condemned
- The condemned are groups of people who plead their cases before Christ and question their responsibility for sin.
- Unbaptized infants
- Unbaptized infants form one pleading group, asking Christ how they can bear responsibility without having chosen good or evil.
- The saved
- The saved are those whom God has chosen for salvation, contrasted with the people pleading before Christ.
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- LengthAbout 22,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 1 h 35 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesEnglish and 9 other languages
Questions about El Día del Juicio Final
What is The Day of Doom about?
It is a rhymed poem that pictures the Last Judgment. Christ returns at midnight, the dead rise, and every kind of sinner stands trial, makes excuses and is answered, while the saved are welcomed into heaven.
Who wrote The Day of Doom and when?
Michael Wigglesworth, a Puritan minister at Malden, Massachusetts, wrote it. It was published about 1662, sold out its first edition within about a year, and was reprinted many times.
Is The Day of Doom easy to read aloud?
Yes, in the sense that it was made for the ear. Its short, rhymed lines follow a steady ballad beat, each plea and reply is a clear little scene, and the plain words carry the argument.
What other poems come in this book?
Besides the main poem, it holds a preface to the reader, a prayer to Christ, A Short Discourse on Eternity, a Postscript, Vanity of Vanities, and two poems on death, along with a memoir and a funeral sermon.
What is the main message of the poem?
It warns that judgment comes without notice and that no excuse or good deed can replace faith and grace. It urges the reader to repent now, while time lasts, and trust Christ for salvation.
Cite this edition
Wigglesworth, Michael. The Day of Doom. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-day-of-doom.
Wigglesworth, M. (2026). The day of doom. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-day-of-doom (Original work published 1662)
Wigglesworth, Michael. The Day of Doom. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-day-of-doom.
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