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An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of…
An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of God in his late and present dispensations as ever they desire to escape another judgement, seven times greater that any thing which as yet hath been. / By Increase Mather; teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1676
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.
May. 3d. Was the day of Election for Governor and Magistrates in the Massachusetts Colony. This day the Lord by a wonderful hand of providence, wrought Salvation for Mrs. Bowlandson & returned to her to Boston, after she had been eleven weeks in Captivity amongst the heathen. This is a Token for good, being a great answer of Prayer. For by reason of her near relation to a Man of God, much prayer had been particularly made before the Lord on her behalf. Nevertheless did the Lord manifest his holy displeasure, in as much as at Haveril and Bradford, a small company of Indians killed two men and carried away a man and a woman, & five Children alive.
May. 3d. Was the day of Election for Governour and Magistrates in the Matachusets Colony. This day the Lord by a wonderfull hand of providence, wrought Salvation for Mrs. Bowlandson & returned to her to Boston, after she had been eleven weeks in Captivity amongst the heathen. This is a Token for good, being a great answer of Prayer. For by reason of her near relation to a Man of God, much prayer had been particularly made before the Lord on her behalf. Nevertheless did the Lord manifest his holy displeasure, in as much as at Haveril and Bradford, a small company of Indians killed two men and carryed away a man and a woman, & five Children alive.
May. 6th. Our Forces which are abroad met with a party of Indians, and killed about thirteen of them, and had probably destroyed many more of them, had not an English-man unhappily sounded a trumpet, whereby the enemy had notice to escape. The Praying Indians did good Service at that […], insomuch as many who had hard thoughts of them all, begin to blame ⟨p. 29⟩themselves, and to have a good opinion of those Praying Indians who have been so universally decried.
May. 6th. Our Forces which are abroad met with a party of Indians, and killed about thirteen of them, and had probably destroyed many more of them, had not an English-man unhappily sounded a trumpet, whereby the enemy had notice to escape. The Praying Indians did good Service at that , insomuch as many who had hard thoughts of them all, begin to blame