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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE REMARKEABLES of a long WAR, Collected and Improved. Boston-Lect… › Part 6
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A Great King of Persia, having by Death lost the nearest Relation he had in the world, and being too passionate a Mourner for his Loss, an Ingenious man undertook, to Raise the Dead Relation, unto Life again, if the King would but furnish him in one point, that he apprehended necessary; It was demanded, What that was? and it was replied, Furnish me but with the Names of Three persons, who have never met with any Sadness and Sorrow, and by Writing those Names on the Monument of the Dead, I'll bring the Dead person to Life. Truly, The Ten Years of our War have set many Ten Hundreds of persons a Mourning over their Dead Friends; we have seen every where, The Mourners go about the Streets: Now, I durst make you this offer; that if you can find Three persons, who have met with no matter of Sadness and Sorrow in these Ten Years, with the Names of them, we'll fetch your Dead, Friends to Life again. It 'twas said, in Job 21.17. God Distributeth Sorrows in His Anger. You may Observe a marvellous Distribution of Sorrows made among us, by the Anger of God.
A Great King of Persia, having by Death lost the nearest Relation he had in the world, and being too passionate a Mourner for his Loss, an Ingenious man undertook, to Raise the Dead Relation, unto Life again, if the King would but furnish him in one point, that he apprehended necessary; It was demanded, What that was? and it was replied, Furnish me but with the Names of Three persons, who have never met with any Sadness and Sorrow, and by Writing those Names on the Monument of the Dead, I'l bring the Dead person to Life. Truly, The Ten Years of our War have set many Ten Hundreds of persons a Mourning over their Dead Friends; we have seen every where, The Mourners go about the Streets: Now, I durst make you this offer; that if you can find Three persons, who have met with no matter of Sadness and Sorrow in these Ten Years, with the Names of them, we'l fetch your Dead, Friends to Life again. It 'twas said, in Job 21.17. God Distributeth Sorrows in His Anger. You may Observe a marvellous Distribution of Sorrows made among us, by the Anger of God.