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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.
June. 21. was kept as a day of solemn Humiliation in one of the Churches in Boston; so was the next day in all the Churches throughout the Colony of Plymouth. After which we have not received such sad tidings, as usually such days have been attended with, ever since this War began (as the precedent History doth make to appear) but rather such Intelligence from diverse parts of the Country as doth administer ground of hope, and of rejoicing, the Lord seeming to return with mercy to his people, and to bring the enemy into greater distresses then formerly.
June. 21. was kept as a day of solemn Humiliation in one of the Churches in Boston; so was the next day in all the Churches throughout the Colony of Plimouth. After which we have not received such sad t•dings, as usually such dayes have been attended with, ever since this Warr began (as the precedent History doth make to appear) but rather such Intelligence from diverse parts of the Countrey as doth administer ground of hope, and of rejoycing, the Lord seeming to return with mercy to his people, and to bring the enemy into greater distresses then formerly.
June. 28. About thirty of ours adventured to go up the River towards the Falls at Dee• field, to see what Indians they could espy thereabouts, but coming they found none. They went to an Island where they found an hundred Wigwams, and some English plundered Goods, which they took, and burnt the Wigwams. Also they marched up to a Fort which the Indians had built there, and destroyed it. Digging here and there they found several Indian B•rn•, where was an abundance of Fish, which they took and spoiled, as also thirty of their Canoes; so that it appears that the Heathen are distressed and scattered, being no more able to continue together in such great Bodies as formerly.
June. 28. About thirty of ours adventured to go up the River towards the Falls at Dee• field, to see what Indians they could espy thereabouts, but coming they found none. They went to an Island where they found an hundred Wigwams, and some English plundered Goods, which they took, and burnt the Wigwams. Also they marched up to a Fort which the Indians had built there, and destroyed it. Digging here and there they found several Indian Brn, where was an abundance of Fish, which they took and spoiled, as also thirty of their Canoos; so that it appears that the Heathen are distressed and scattered, being no more able to continue together in such great Bodyes as formerly.