Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…

Reader, I must now address thee, with the Words of a Poet: Dicam Insigne Recens, adhuc Indictum ore alio. Horat.

REader, I must now address thee, with the Words of a Poet: Dicam Insigne Recens, adhuc Indictum ore alio. Horat.

But with Truths more confirmed, than what uses to come from the Pen of a Poet. The Story of the Prodigious War, made by the Spirits of the Invisible World, upon the People of New England, in the year, 1692. hath Entertained a great ⟨p. 103⟩part of the English World, with a just Astonishment: and I have met with some Strange Things, not here to be mentioned, which have made me often think, that this inexplicable War, might have some of its Original among the Indians, whose chief Sagamores are well known unto some of our Captives, to have been horrid Sorcerers, and hellish Conjurers, and such as Conversed with Daemons. The Sum of that Story is, Written in, The Life of Sir William Phipps; with such Irreproachable Truth, as to Defy the utmost Malice and Cunning of all our Sadducees, to Confute it, in so much as one Material Article: And that the Balant, and Latrant Noises of that sort of People, may be forever Silenced, the Story will be abundantly Justified, when the further Account written of it, by Mr. John Hale shall be published: For none can suspect a Gentleman, so full of Dissatisfaction, at the proceedings then used against the Supposed Witchcraft, as Now that Reverend Person is, to be a Superstitious Writer upon that Subject.

But with Truths more confirmed, than what uses to come from the Pen of a Poet. The Story of the Prodigious War, made by the Spirits of the Invisible World, upon the People of New England, in the year, 1692. hath Entertain'd a great ⟨p. 103⟩part of the English World, with a just Astonishment: and I have met with some Strange Things, not here to be mentioned, which have made me often think, that this inexplicable War, might have some of its Original among the Indians, whose chief Sagamores are well known unto some of our Captives, to have been horrid Sorcerers, and hellish Conjurers, and such as Conversed with Daemons. The Sum of that Story is, Written in, The Life of Sir William Phipps; with such Irreproachable Truth, as to Defy the utmost Malice and Cunning of all our Sadducees, to Confute it, in so much as one Material Article: And that the Balant, and Latrant Noises of that sort of People, may be forever Silenced, the Story will be abundantly Justifyed, when the further Account written of it, by Mr. John Hale shall be published: For none can suspect a Gentleman, so full of Dissatisfaction, at the proceedings then used against the Supposed Witchcraft, as Now that Reverend Person is, to be a Superstitious Writer upon that Subject.