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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 8. About seventeen Houses and Barns did the Indians fire and destroy at Bridge-water. About this time they killed four men at Taunton, as they were at work in the field, by whose death about thirty Children were made fatherless. But the Lord in the nick of time, sent Thunder and Rain, which caused the Enemy to turn back.
May 8. About seventeen Houses and Barns did the Indians fire and destroy at Bridge-water. About this time they killed four men at Tannson, as they were at work in the field, by whose death about thirty Children were made fatherless. But the Lord in the nick of time, sent Thunder and Rain, which caused the Enemy to turn back.
May 9. A day of Humiliation by Fasting and Prayer, was attended in the Town-house at Boston, by the Magistrates, and Deputies of the General Court, with Assistance of so many teaching Elders as could be obtained. Al| though many such solemn occasions have at times been attended informer years, yet it hath been observed by some, that God did always signally own his Servants, upon their being before him in such a way and manner: And so it was now; for the very next day after this, a Letter came from Connecticut to Boston, informing, that God had let loose the Mohawks upon our Enemies, and that they were sick of Fluxes, and Fevers, which proved mortal to multitudes of them. And whereas a special request lest before the Lord this day, was, that he would (as a token for good) cause our poor Captives to be returned to us again, and particularly those that were taken from Haverit the last week, God gave a gracious and speedy Answer, bringing home those very Captives in particular, and many other, yea at least sixteen of our poor sighing prisoners, who were appointed to death, did the Lord loose and return unto us, within eight weeks after this day, and divers of them within three days after this solemn day of Prayer. There are who have dated the turn of Providence towards us in this Colony, and against the Enemy in […] wonderful manner, from this day forward: yet some lesser and more ••••siderable devastations happened soon after in Plymouth Colony. For […].