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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.
And Reason faith, that those Forces may pass for Armies in one part of the world, that will not do so In another. But my design in this Postscript is not to Criticize or Apologize about the use of a Term. There is another matter of greater importance, so. That which doth concern the the Grounds of this War, and the justness of it on our part: concerning which I shall here add a few words. It is known to every one, that the War began not amongst us in Massachusetts Colony; nor do the Indians (so far as I am informed) pretend that we have done them wrong. And therefore the cause on our part is most clear, and unquestionable: For if we should have […] our Confederates, and those that were ready to be slain, to be draws, to death, & not have endeavoured to deliver them, when they sent unto us for that end, the Lord would have been displeased; nor should we have acted like the Children of Abraham, Geo. 14. 14. Yea, all the world would justly have condemned us. And as for our Brethren in that Colony, where these tumults first happened,' ⟨image ?⟩[…] that the Indians did most unrighteously begin a Quarrel, and take up the Sword against them.
And Reason faith, that those Forces may pass for Armies in one part of the world, that will not do so In another. But my design in this Postscript is not to Criticize or Apologize about the use of a Term. There is another matter of greater importance, so. That which doth concern the the Grounds of this Warr, and the justness of it on our part: concerning which I shall here adde a few words. It is known to every one, that the War began not amongst us in Mattachusets Colony; nor do the Indians (so far as I am informed) pretend that we have done them wrong. And therefore the cause on our part is most clear, and unquestionable: For if we should have 〈…〉 our Confederates, and those that were ready to be slain, to be draws, to death, & not have endeavoured to deliver them, when they sent unto us for that end, the Lord would have been disoleased; nor should we have acted like the Children of Abraham, Geo. 14. 14. Yea, all the world would justly have condemned us. And as for our Brethren in that Colony, where these tumults first hapned,' ⟨image ?⟩〈…〉 that the Indians did most unrighteously begin a Quarrel, and take up the Sword against them.