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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 30. This day Soldiers marched out of Boston towards the place, where Philip was supposed to be. But when they come thither, they found that he was newly gone. We hear that he is returned to Mount hop; and that a considerable body of Indians are gathered to that place, where the War began, and where (it may be) way must be made towards an end of these troubles. Yet who knoweth how cruelty a dying B•ast ••y b•re before his expiration? Also Plymouth Companies being abroad under the conduct of Major Bradford, the Lord went forth with them, this day causing the enemy to fall before them. They were in danger of being cut off by party of Indians who lay in Ambush for that end, but some of the Cape-Indians, who have been faithful to the English, discovered the Stratagems of the Adversary, whereby their intended mischief was happily prevented. Divers of them were killed and taken, without the loss of so much as one of ours. And whereas, three Messengers from Squaw-Sachem of ⟨image ?⟩Sak•net, were gone to the Governor of Plymouth offering to submit themselves, and engaging Fidelity to the English for the future, if they might but have a promise of life, and liberty; before the Messengers returned from their treaty, that Squaw-Sachem with about ninety persons, hearing that Plymouth Forces were approaching to them, came and tendered themselves to Major Bradford, wholly submitting to mercy, so that this day were killed, taken and brought in no less then an hundred and ten Indians. And the providence of God herein is the more observable, in that the very day before this, the Lords People in Plymouth did unanimously consent to renew their Covenant with God, and one another, and a day of Humiliation was appointed for that end that so a work so sacred and awful might be attended with the more solemnity: also in the week before these signal smiles from Heaven upon that Colony, most of the Churches there, had renewed their Covenant, viz. on the day of Humiliation which was last attended throughout that Jurisdiction. God then faith unto us, that if we will indeed hea• ken unto his voice, the haters of the Lord shall soon submit themselves.
June 30. This day Souldiers marched out of Boston towards the place, where Philip was supposed to be. But when they come thither, they found that he was newly gone. We hear that he is returned to Mount hop; and that a considerable body of Indians are gathered to that place, where the War began, and where (it may be) way must be made towards an end of these troubles. Yet who knoweth how cruelty a dying Bast y bre before his expiration? Also Plimouth Companies being abroad under the conduct of Major Bradford, the Lord went forth with them, this day causing the enemy to fall before them. They were in danger of being cut off by party of Indians who lay in Ambush for that end, but some of the Cape-Indians, who have been faithful to the English, discovered the Sratagems of the Adversary, whereby their intended mischief was happily prevented. Divers of them were killed and taken, without the loss of so much as one of ours. And whereas, three Messengers from Squaw-Sachem of