An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of…

When Philip was thus slain, five of his men were killed with him, one of which was his chief Captains son, being (as the Indians […]) […] very Indian, who shot the first gun at the English when the War began. So that we may hope that the War in those parts will dye with Philip.

When Philip was thus slain, five of his men were killed with him, one of which was his chief Captains son, being (as the Indians 〈…〉) 〈…〉 very Indian, who shot the first gun at the English when the War began. So that we may hope that the War in those parts will dye with Philip.

A little before this, the Authority in that Colony had appointed the seventeenth of this instant to be observed as a day of public, Thanksgiving throughout that Jurisdiction, on the account of wonderful success against the Enemy, which the Lord hath blessed them with, […] their Covenant with him; and that so they might have hearts raised and enlarged in ascribing praises to God, he delivered Philip into their hands a few days before their intended Thanksgiving. Thus did God break the head of that Leviathan, and gave it to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness, and brought it to the Town of Plymouth the very day of their Solemn Festival: yet this also is to be added and considered, that the Lord (so great is the divine faithfulness) to prevent us from being hited up with our successes, and that we might not become secure, so ordered as that not an English-man but an Indian (though under […] influence) must have the honour of killing Philip. And the day before this, was intended with a doleful Tragedy in the Eastern parts of this Country; viz. at Falmouth in […], where some of those treacherous and bloody Indians who had lately submitted themselves, and promised Fidelity to the English, killed and took Captive above thirty Souls. The chief Author of this mischief, was an Indian called […] who was once in the hands of the English, and then known to have been active in former Murders, having bragged and boasted of the mischief and murders done by him. we may fear, that God, who so awfully threatens Ahab, when he had let go out of his hand a Blaspha mous, Murderous Heathen, whom the Lord had devoted to destruction, was not well pleased with the English for concluding this, and other bloody Murderers, in the […] Eastern peace. What the issue of this new flame thus breaking forth, shall be, or how far it shall proceed; is with him whose wisdom is infinite; and who […] all things well inasmuch as is is too evident that a