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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.
It is certain, that before this War brake out; viz. on Sept. 10. 1674. In Hadly, Northampton, and other Towns there bouts, was heard the report of a great piece of Ordinance, with a thinking of the earth. and a considerable Echo, whenas there was no ordinance really discharged at or ne•• any of those Towns at the time. Yea no less then seven years before this war there were plain prodigious Notices of it. For,
It is certain, that before this Warr brake out; viz. on Sept. 10. 1674. In Hadly, Northampton, and other Towns there bouts, was heard the report of a great piece of Ordinance, with a thinking of the earth. and a considerable Echo, whenas there was no ordinance really discharged at or ne•• any of those Towns at the time. Yea no less then seven years before this wa•r there were plain prodigious Notices of it. For,
Anno 1667. There were fears on the spirits of many of the English, concerning Philip and his Indians, and that year, N•ven•b 30 about 9 or 10 hr. A.M. being a very clear, still, Sun-shine morning the eve•e […] Persons in Maldon, who heard in the air on the South last of them, a great Gun go off, and as soon as that was past, they heard the report of small Guns like musket shot, discharging very thick, as if it had been at a general Training: but that which did most of all amaze them, was the flying of the Bullets which came singing over their heads, and seemed in be very near them, airer this they heard drams pasting by them & going Westward. The same day, at Scituate, and in other places in Plymouth Colony, they heard as it were the running of troops of horses.
Anno 1667. There were fears on the spirits of many of the English, concerning Philip and his Indians, and that year, N•ven•b 30 about 9 or 10 hr. A.M. being a very clear, still, Sun-shine morning the evee Persons in Maldon, who heard in the air on the South last of them, a great Gun go off, and as soon as that was past, they heard the report of small Guns like musker shott, discharging very thick, as if it had been at a general Training: but that which did most of all amaze them, was the flying of the Bullets which came singing over their heads, and seemed in be very near them, airer this they heard drams pasting by them & going Westward. The same day, at Scitnatt, and in other places in Plimouth Colony, they heard as it were the running of troops of horses.