N00162:30
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.
June 29th, was a day of public Humiliation in this Colony appointed by the Council in respect of the war which is now begun.
June 29th, was a day of publick Humiliation in this Colony appointed by the Council in respect of the war which is now begun.
This morning our army would have engaged with the enemy, The Indians shot the Pilot who was directing our Soldiers in their way to Philips Country, and wounded several of our men, and ran into Swamps, rainy weather hindered a further pursuit of the Enemy. An awful Providence happened at this time: for a soldier (a stout man) who was sent from […], seeing the English Guide •lain, and hearing many profane oaths among some of our Soldiers (namely those Privateers, who were also Volunteers) and considering the unseasonableness of the weather was such, as that […] could be done against the Enemy, this man was possessed with a […] conceit that God was against the english, whereupon he immediately can distracted, and so was returned home a lamentable Spectacle.
This morning our army would have ingaged with the enemy, The Indians shot the Pilot who was directing our Souldiers in their way to Philips Countrey, and wounded several of our men, and ran into Swamps, rainy weather hindred a further pursuit of the Enemy. An awfull Providence happened at this time: for a souldier (a stout man) who was sent from 〈…〉, seing the English Guide •lain, and hearing many profane oathes among some of our Souldiers (namely those Priva•eers, who were also Volunt••rs) and considering the unseasonableness of the weather was such, as that 〈…〉 could be done against the Enemy, this man was possessed with a 〈…〉 conceit that God was against the english, whereupon he immediately can distracted, and so was returned home a lamentable Spectacle.