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WIGGLESWORTH, MICHAEL (1631-1705)

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WIGGLESWORTH, See also:MICHAEL (1631-1705) , See also:American See also:clergy-See also:man and poet, was See also:born in See also:England, probably in See also:Yorkshire, on the 18th of See also:October 1631. His See also:father, See also:Edward (d. 1653), persecuted for his Puritan faith, emigrated with his See also:family to New England in 1638 and settled in New Haven. Michael studied for a See also:time at a school kept by See also:Ezekiel Cheever, and in 1651 graduated at Harvard, where he was a See also:tutor (and a See also:Fellow) in 1652-1654. Having fitted himself for the See also:ministry, he preached at See also:Charlestown in 16531654, and was pastor at See also:Malden from 1656 until his See also:death, though for twenty years or more bodily infirmities prevented his See also:regular attendance upon his duties—See also:Cotton See also:Mather described him as " a little feeble See also:shadow of a man." During this See also:interval he studied See also:medicine and began a successful practice. He was again a Fellow of Harvard in 1697-1705. He died at Malden on the Loth of See also:June 1705. Wigglesworth is best known as the author of The See also:Day of See also:Doom; or a Poetical Description of the See also:Great and Last See also:Judgment (1662). At least two See also:English and eight American See also:editions have appeared, notable among them being that of 1867 (New See also:York), edited by W. H. See also:Burr and including other poems of Wigglesworth, a memoir and an autobiography. For a See also:century this realistic and terrible expression of the prevailing Calvinistic See also:theology was by far the most popular See also:work written in See also:America.

His other poem: include See also:

God's Controversy with New England (written in 1662, " in the time of the great drought," and first printed in the Proceedings of the See also:Massachusetts See also:Historical Society for 1781), and See also:Meat out of the Eater; or Meditations concerning the See also:Necessity, End and Usefulness of Afflictions unto God's See also:Children (1669; revised in 1703). His son, See also:SAMUEL (1689–1768), also a clergyman, was the author of several See also:prose See also:works and of one poem of merit, " A Funeral See also:Song " (1709). Another son, Edward (1693–1765), was the first Hollis See also:professor of Divinity at Harvard (1722-1765), and the author of various theological works; and a See also:grandson, Edward (1732–1794), was the second Hollis professor of Divinity (1765–1791), in which position he was succeeded by Michael Wigglesworth's great-grandson, Rev. See also:David Tappan (1752–1803). See J. W. See also:Deane, Memoir of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth (See also:Boston, 1871).

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