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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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THE REMARKEABLES of a long WAR, Collected and Improved. Boston-Lect… › Part 6
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But there are other points, not a few, wherein the Great God hath Heaped Mischiefs upon us; and fulfilled unto us that Holy Commination, Ezek. 7.26. Mischief shall come upon mischief. What shall I say? While the Lord of Hosts hath been against us, the Hosts of Lord have been so too; All the Elements have as it were been up in Arms against us.
But there are other points, not a few, wherein the Great God hath Heaped Mischiefs upon us; and fulfill'd unto us that Holy Commination, Ezek. 7.26. Mischief shall come upon mischief. What shall I say? While the Lord of Hosts hath been against us, the Hosts of Lord have been so too; All the Elements have as it were been up in Arms against us.
Particularly; You may Observe, That Epidemical Sicknesses, have in these years, been once ⟨p. 229⟩and again upon us; wherein the Angels of Death, have Shot the Arrows of Death, into such as could not be reached by the Bullets of the Indian Enemy. This one Town, did in one year, loose, I suppose, at least Six or Seven Hundred of its People, by one contagious Mortality. And tho' of about Three and Twenty Hundred men, that we Employed in one Action, we did, in that Action, loose hardly Thirty men, yet how many Hundreds did afterwards miserably perish?
Particularly; You may Observe, That Epidemical Sicknesses, have in these years, been once ⟨p. 229⟩and again upon us; wherein the Angels of Death, have Shot the Arrows of Death, into such as could not be reached by the Bullets of the Indian Enemy. This one Town, did in one year, loose, I suppose, at least Six or Seven Hundred of its People, by one contagious Mortality. And tho' of about Three and Twenty Hundred men, that we Employ'd in one Action, we did, in that Action, loose hardly Thirty men, yet how many Hundreds did afterwards miserably perish?