N00162:29
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.
Soldiers marched out of Boston towards Mount Hope, June. 26th and continued marching that night, when there happened a great Eclipse of the Moon, which was totally darkened above an hour. Only it must be remembered ⟨image ?⟩that some days before any soldiers went out of Boston Commissioners were sent to treat with Philip, that so if possible engaging in a War might be prevented. But when the Commissioners came near to Mount-Hope, they found diverse english men on the ground wel••ing in their town blood, having been newly murdered by the Indians, so that they could not proceed further. Yea the Indians killed a man of this Colony as he was travelling in the road before such time as we took up arms: in which respect no man can doubt of the justness of our cause, since the enemy did shed the blood of some of ours who never did them (our enemies themselves being judges) the least wrong before we did at all offend them, or attempt any act of hostility towards them.
Souldiers marched out of Boston towards Mount Hope, June. 26th and continued marching that night, when there hapned a great Eclipse of the Moon, which was totally darkned above an hour. Only it must be remembred ⟨image ?⟩that some dayes before any souldiers went out of Boston Commissioners were sent to treat with Philip, that so if possible ingaging in a War might be prevented. But when the Commissioners came near to Mount-Hope, they found diverse english men on the ground wel••ing in their town blood, having been newly murthered by the Indians, so that they could not proceed further. Yea the Indians killed a man of this Colony as he was travelling in the roade before such time as we took up arms: in which respect no man can doubt of the justness of our cause, since the enemy did shed the blood of some of ours who never did them (our enemyes themselves being judges) the least wrong before we did at all offend them, or attempt any act of hostility towards them.