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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.
August 1. Captain Church with thirty English-men, and twenty Indians following Philip and chose with him, by their track, took twenty and three Indians. The •ex• morning they came upon Philips head quarters, killed and took about an hundred and thirty Indians, with the loss of but one English-man. In probability, many of the English Soldiers had been cut off at this time, but that an Indian called Matibias, who fought for the English, when they were come very near the Enemy, called to them in their own Language with much vehemency, telling them they were all dead men if they did but fire a God, which did so amuse and amaze the Indians that they lost a great advantage against the English. Philips hardly escaped with his life this day also: He fled and left his Peag behind him, also his Squaw and his Son were taken Captives, and are now P•isoners in Plymouth. Thus hath God brought that grand Enemy into great misery before be quite destroy him. It must needs be bitter as death to him, to loose his Wife and only Son (for the Indians are marvellous fond and affectionate towards their Children) besides other Relations, and almost all his Subjects and Country […].
August 1. Captain Church with thirty English-men, and twenty Indians following Philip and chose with him, by their track, took twenty and three Indians. The •ex• morning they came upon Philips head quarters, killed and took about an hundred and thirty Indians, with the loss of but one English-man. In probability, many of the English Souldiers had been cut off at this time, but that an Indian called Matibias, who fought for the English, when they were come very near the Enemy, called to them in their own Language with much vehemency, telling them they were all dead men if they did but fire a God, which did so amuse and amaze the Indians that they lost a great advantage against the English. Philips hardly escaped with his life this day also: He fled and left his Peag behind him, also his Squaw and his Son were taken Capti•es, and are now P•isoners in Plimouth. Thus hath God brought that grand Enemy into great misery before be quite des•roy him. It must needs be bitter as death to him, to loose his Wife and only Son (for the Indians are marvellous fond and affectionate towards their Children) besides other Relations, and almost all his Subjects and Country .