N00162:42
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.
Now the English have a multitude of open Enemies more then when this trouble began, so that greater desolations are now expected.
Wherefore September I. the Indians set upon Deer field, (alias […]) and killed one man, and laid most of the Houses in that new hopeful Plantation in ruinous heaps. That which addeth solemnity and awfulness to that Desolation, is, that it happened on the very day when one of the Churches in Boston were seeking the face of God by Fasting and Prayer before him. […] Also that very day the Church in Hadly was before the Lord in the same way, but were driven from the Holy Service they were attending ⟨image ?⟩by a most sudden and violent Alarm, which routed them the whole day after. So that we may humbly complain, as sometimes the Church did how long hast those smoked [Greek or Hebrew] against the Prayers of thy People. Not long […] this, Captain Beers with a considerable part of his men fell before the Enemy. Concerning the state of those parts at this time until September 15. Received information from a good […] whilst things were fresh in memory, which I shall here insert, as containing a brief History of the Transactions which happened within the time mentioned; those parts being then the Seat of the War: the Letter which I intended is that which followeth.
Wherefore September I. the Indians set upon Deer field, (alias 〈…〉) and killed one man, and laid most of the Houses in that new hopeful Plantation in ruinous heaps. That which addeth solemnity and awfulness to that Desolation, is, that it happened on the very day when one of the Churches in Boston were seeking the face of God by Fasting and Prayer before him. 〈…〉 Also that very day the Church in Hadly was before the Lord in the same way, but were driven from the Holy Service they were attending ⟨image ?⟩by a most sudden and violent Alarm, which routed them the whole day after. So that we may humbly complain, as sometimes the Church did how long hast those smoaked against the Prayers of thy People. Not long this, Captain Beers with a considerable part of his men fell before the Enemy. Concerning the state of those parts at this time until September 15. Received information from a good whilst things were fresh in memory, which I shall here insert, as containing a brief History of the Transactions which happened within the time mentioned; those parts being then the Seat of the War: the Letter which I intended is that which followeth.