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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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Again; Who are they, by whose means we are now crying out, We are Brought very Low? When the most High God, was determined Effectually to Humble, His People, he said, in Jer. 37.10. Though ye had Smitten the whole Army of the Chaldeans, that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they Rise up every man in his Tent; and burn this City with Fire. Truly, we had Smitten the whole Army, of the Indians that Fought against us Three and Twenty years ago, from one end of the Land unto the other; only there were left a few Wounded men among them in the East; and now, they have Risen up every man, and have set the ⟨p. 235⟩whole Country on Fire. Certainly, A more Humbling matter cannot be Related!
Again; Who are they, by whose means we are now crying out, We are Brought very Low? When the most High God, was determined Effectually to Humble, His People, he said, in Jer. 37.10. Though ye had Smitten the whole Army of the Caldeans, that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they Rise up every man in his Tent; and burn this City with Fire. Truly, we had Smitten the whole Army, of the Indians that Fought against us Three and Twenty years ago, from one end of the Land unto the other; only there were left a few Wounded men among them in the East; and now, they have Risen up every man, and have set the ⟨p. 235⟩whole Country on Fire. Certainly, A more Humbling matter cannot be Related!
Moreover; Is it not a very Humbling Thing, That when about an Hundred Indians durst Begin a War, upon all these Populous Colonies, an Army of a Thousand English raised, must not kill one of them all; but instead thereof, more of our Soldiers perish by Sickness and Hardship than we had Enemies then in the world? Our God ha's Humbled us!