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The wonderful works of God commemorated praises bespoke for the God of heaven in…
The wonderful works of God commemorated praises bespoke for the God of heaven in a thanksgiving sermon delivered on Decemb. 19, 1689 : containing reflections upon the excellent things done by the great God ... : to which is added A sermon preached unto a convention of the Massachuset-colony in New-England ... / by Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by S. Green & sold by Joseph Browning, 1690
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Example. II.
Exemple. II.
¶ The Ringleader of the last War which the Indians afflicted the English in this Land withal, was Philip the Prince of the Wampanoags. That gracious and laborious Apostle of the Indians, the Reverend John Eliot, made a Tender of the Gospel to this Monster, who after the Indian mode of joining signs with words, pulling off a Button on the good man's Coat, told him, He did not value what he said so much as that: and he moreover hindered his subjects from embracing the Christian Religion through a fear which he expressed, That it might obstruct something of their Civil absolute unlimited Obedience to him. After his Invasion of the English with some unhappy Success, the Hand of God so fell upon him, as that after many Calamities, one of his own Vassals upon a disgust at him, for killing an Indian who had propounded an Expedient of Peace with the English, ran away from him, informing our Forces where he was; and they came upon him in the Thicket, just as he was telling his Counsellors of his Dream the night ⟨p. 5⟩before, that the English had taken him, and while he endeavoured an Escape an Indian shot him through' the heart, whereof he dyed immediately, nor are any considerable part of his people now to seen any where out of their own place.
¶ The Ringleader of the last Warr which the Indians afflicted the English in this Land withal, was Philip the Prince of the Wompan•ags. That gracious and laborious Apostle of the Indians, the Reverend Iohn Eliot, made a Tender of the Gospel to this Monster, who after the Indian mode of joining signs with words, pulling off a Button on the good man's Coat, told him, He did not value what he said so much as that: and he moreover hindred his subjects from embracing the Christian Religion through a fear which he expressed, That it might obstruct something of their Civil absolute unlimited Obedience to him. After his Invasion of the English with some unhappy Success, the Hand of God so fell upon him, as that after many Calamities, one of his own Vassals upon a disgust at him, for killing an Indian who had propounded an Expedient of Peace with the English, ran away from him, informing our Forces where he was; and they came upon him in the Thicket, just as he was telling his Counsellours of his Dream the night