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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
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July 11. A Party of Indians (is conjectured that there were about two hundred of them) assaulted Taunton. And in probability, that Town had at this time been brought under the same desolation other places have experienced, had not the Lord in his gracious providence so ordered, that a Captive Negro, the week before escaped from Philip and informed of his purpose speedily to destroy Taunton, whereupon Soldiers were forthwith sent thither, so that the enemy was in a little time repulsed, and fled, after they had •red two Houses: but not one English Life was lost in this Engagement. What loss the enemy sustained is as yet unknown to us. There were a special providence in that Negroes escape, for he having lived many years near to the Indians, understood their Language, and having heard them tell one another what their designs were, be acquainted the English there with and now Philip had ordered his men to lye in Ambus••do•• i• such and such places, to cut of the English, who by means of this intelligence escaped that •anger, which other wise had attended them.
July 11. A Party of Indians (is conjectured that there were about two hundred of them) assaulted Taunton. And in probability, that Town had at this time been brought under the same desolation other places have experienced, had not the Lord in his gracious providence so ordered, that a Captive Negro, the week before escaped from Philip and informed of his purpose speedily to destroy Taunton, whereupon Souldiers were forthwith sent thither, so that the enemy was in a little time repulsed, and fled, after they had •red two Houses: but not one English Life was lost in this Ingagement. What loss the enemy sustained is as yet unknown to us. There were a special providence in that Negroes escape, for he having lived many years near to the Indians, understood their Language, and having heard them tell one another what their designs were, be acquainted the English there with and now Philip had ordered his men to lye in Ambus••do•• i• such and such places, to cut of the English, who by meanes of this intelligence escaped that anger, which other wise had attended them.