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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.
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 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 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.
I would not have me […] this relation had I not received it from […] faithful, and judicious hands, even of those who were ear witnesses of the things.
I would not have me 〈…〉 this relation had I not received it from faithfull, and julicious hands, even of those whowere ear witnesses of the things.