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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 7
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VII. In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is wise, may Observe those Dispensations of Heaven towards us, that have carried more than Ordinary Humiliations in them. It was said concerning Miriam, (the Type of the Now Leprous and out-cast Church of Israel; The Lord hasten that Seventh Day, wherein it shall be Restored!) Numb. 12.14. If her Father had Spit in her Face, should she not be Ashamed? Ah New England, Thy Father hath been Spitting in thy Face, with most Humbling Dispensations; God hath been bringing of thee down to Sit in the Dust. When the War commenced, New-England might say, My God will Humble me!
VII. In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is wise, may Observe those Dispensations of Heaven towards us, that have carryed more than Ordinary Humiliations in them. It was said concerning Miriam, (the Type of the Now Leprous and out-cast Church of Israel; The Lord hasten that Seventh Day, wherein it shall be Restored!) Numb. 12.14. If her Father had Spit in her Face, should she not be Ashamed? Ah New England, Thy Father hath been Spitting in thy Face, with most Humbling Dispensations; God hath been bringing of thee down to Sit in the Dust. When the War commenced, New-England might say, My God will Humble me!
For, First; Shall our Heavenly Father put a Rod into the Hands of base Indians, and bid Them ⟨p. 234⟩to Scourge His Children! Oh! the Humiliation of such Rebellious Children! Oh! the Provocation, that certainly such Sons and such Daughters have given Him! It was a very Humbling thing, that the Lord Threatened unto His Provoking Sons & Daughters, in Deut. 32.21. I will move them to Jealousy, with those which are not a People; I will provoke them to Anger with a Foolish Nation. Should a Child of yours be Refractory, and you, Sir, should bid a Negro or an Indian Slave in your House, Go, Take that Child, and Scourge him till you fetch Blood of him! Surely, this would be to Humble him unto the Uttermost. Thus doth thy God Humble thee, O New-England, by putting thee over, into the Vile Hands of those which are not a People, but a Foolish Nation.