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Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…
Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian salvages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. Faithfully composed and improved. [One line of quotation in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
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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.
Secondly. For the Church abroad, I am far from deserting, what was Asserted, in the Sermon Preached at our Anniversary Election, in the year, 1696. The Tidings which I bring unto you, are, That there is a Revolution, and a Reformation, at the very Door, which will be vastly more wonderful, than any of the Deliverances yet seen by the Church of God, from the Beginning of the World. I do ⟨p. 187⟩not say, That the Next year will bring on this Happy Period: but this I do say, The Bigger part of this Assembly, may, in the course of Nature, Live to see it. These Things will come on, with horrible Commotions, and Concussions, and Confusions: The mighty Angels of the Lord Jesus Christ, will make their Descent, and set the World a Trembling at the Approaches of their Almighty Lord: They will Shake Nations, and Shake Churches, and Shake mighty Kingdoms, and Shake once more, not Earth only, but Heaven also.
Unto these Two Things, my Reader will not misimprove it, I hope, if I add a Third, lately fallen into my Hands; and never yet so Exposed unto the Public.
Unto these Two Things, my Reader will not misimprove it, I hope, if I add a Third, lately fallen into my Hands; and never yet so Exposed unto the Publick.
A Wonderful Matter Incontestably Demonstrated, and much Desired by some Good men, to be in this place Communicated. MR. John Sadler, a very Learned and a very Pious man, and a most Exemplary Christian, Lay Sick in his Bed, at his Manor, of Warmwell in Dorset-Shire: In the year, 1663. In the Time of his Illness, he was visited by Mr. Cuthbert Bound, the Minister of Warmwell Mr. Sadler then desired his man, (one Thomas Grey,) to see that there should be no body ⟨p. 188⟩