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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.
As for the Grounds, justness, and necessity of the present War with th•se barbarous Creatures which have set upon us, my 1designs not to enlarge upon that Argument, but to leave that to others whom it mostly concerns, only in brief this. The irruption of this flame at this time was occasioned as followeth.
As for the Grounds, justness, and necessity of the present War with th•se barbarous Creatures which have set upon us, my 1design•s not to inlargo upon that Argument, but to leave that to others whom it mostly concerns, only in brief this. The irruption of this flame at this time was occasioned as followeth.
- 1Read the Postscript at the end of this History.
In the latter end of the year 1674. An Indian called John Sausaman, who had submitted himself unto, and was taken under the protection of the English perceiving that the profane Indians were hatching mischief against the English, he faithfully acquainted the Governor of Plymouth, with what he kn•w, and also what his fears were together with the grounds thereof, withal, declaring, that he doubted such and such Indians belonging to Philip the Sachem of Pokanoket or Mount-hope, would murder him; which quickly happened accordingly: for soon after this, John Sausaman was barbarously murdered by an Indian called Tobias (one of Phillip 's chief Captains and Counsellors) and by his son, and another Indian, who knocked him on the head and then left him on the Ice on a great Pond. Divine providence which u•eth to bring murder to light, so ordered as that an Indian unseen by those three that killed Sausaman; beheld all that they did to him, and spake of it, so as that a Praying (and as there is cause to hope) a godly Indian, William Nahauton by name, heard of it, and he forthwith revealed what he knew to the English. Whereupon the three Indians who had committed the murder were apprehended, and the other Indian testified to their faces that he saw them killing Sausaman. They had a fair trial for their lives, and that no appearance of wrong might be, Indians, as well as English ate upon the Jars and all agreed to the condemnation of those Murderers, who were accordingly executed in the beginning of the 4th. Month called June Anno. They stoutly denied the fact, only at last Tobias 's son confessed that his father and the other Indian killed Sausaman, but that himself had no hand in it, only stood by and saw them do it.