N00162:24
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.
No doubt but one reason why the Indians murdered John Sausaman, was […] of hatred against him for his Religion, for he was Christianized and […] and was a Preacher amongst the Indians, being of very excellent parts, he translated some part of the bible into the Indian language, and was […] to curb those Indians that knew not God on the account of their debi•••eryes; but the main ground why they murdered him seems to be, because he discovered their subtle and malicious designs, which they were ⟨image ?⟩complotting against the English. Philip perceiving that the Court of Plymouth had condemned and executed one of his Counsellors, being (as i• upon strong grounds supposed) conscious to the […] committed upon John Sansaman, must needs think that ere long they would do to him (who had no less deserved it) as they had done to his Counsellor: wherefore […] contrary to his Covenant and Faith engaged to Plymouth Colony, yea and contrary to his promise unto some in this Colony (for about five years ago• Philip made a disturbance in Plymouth Colony, but was quieted by the prudent interposition of some in our Colony, when he engaged, that if at any time hereafter he should think the English among whom he lived did him wrongs, he would not cause any disquietment before such time as he had acquainted the English of Massachusetts, but contrary to these solemn engagements he) doth call his men together and Arm• them, and refused to come when sent for by the authority of Plymouth, unto whose government he had subjected himself.
No doubt but one reason why the Indians murthered John Sausaman, was 〈…〉 of hatred against him for his Religion, for he was Christianized and 〈…〉 and was a Preacher amongst the Indians, being of very excellent parts, he translated some part of the bible into the Indian language, and was 〈…〉 to curb those Indians that knew not God on the account of their debi•••eryes; but the main ground why they murthered him seems to be, because he discovered their subtle and malicious designs, which they were ⟨image ?⟩