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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 3. This day the Lord smiled upon this Land by signal favour, in another respect which concerns not the present War. For whereas in the month of July, there had been a fore Drought, which did greatly threaten ⟨p. 45⟩the Indian Harvest, God opened the bottles of Heaven […] […] it to rain […] this night, and the day after, so as […] the Indian […], the English Harvest being already gathered in and more […] then in some former years, insomuch that this which was expected to be […] year of Famine, is turned to be a year of plenty as to provision.
August 3. This day the Lord smiled upon this Land by signal favour, in another respect which concerns not the present War. For whereas in the month of July, there had been a fore Drought, which did greatly threaten ⟨p. 45⟩the Indian Harvest, God opened the bottles of Heaven 〈…〉 〈…〉 it to rain 〈…〉 this night, and the day after, so as 〈…〉 the Indian 〈…〉, the English Harvest being already gathered in and more 〈…〉 then in some former years, insomuch that this which was expected to be 〈…〉 year of Famine, is turned to be a year of plenty as to provision.
Whilst I am writing this, good information is brought to me, that in some parts of Connecticut Colony, […] and all his men continue […] able Teacher of the Church in Norwich) desiring that he would pray to God for rain. Mr. Fitch replied to him, that it he should do so and God should hear him, as long as their […] were at work they would ascribe […] to them, and think that the Devil, whom the Indians worship, and not God had sent that rain, and therefore he would not […] till they had done with their […] declared that they had […] despairing to obtain what they desied. Mr. Fitch therefore called his Church together, and they […] the small rain, and to the great rain of his Strength, be thou upon the earth, gve most Plen[…] Showers, inasmuch as the Heathen were affected therewith, acknowledging that the God whom we serve is a great God, and there is none like unto him.