N00162:50
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.
and above sixty Persons buried in one dreadful Grave. And this was the state of the Western parts in respect of the War with the Heathen.
We must now take a step backwards, and a little consider the Eastern Plantations. For in the Month of September, did the flame break out there. Some who had their hearts exercised in discerning things of […] were from the beginning of the War, not without sad Apprehe•• […] terning the Inhabitants in those parts of the Country, in that they ⟨p. 13⟩scattered people, and such as had many of them Scandalized the Heathen, and lived themselves too like unto the Heathen, without any Instituted Ordinances, also the Indians thereabouts were more numerous then in some other places. They began their Outrages, at the House of one Mr. Purchase, who had been a great Trader with the Indians After that they came to the House of an old Man in Casco-bay, whose name was Wakely. Him with his Wife. Son and Daughter in law (who was great with Child) and two Grandchildren, they cruelly Murdered, and took three Children alive, and led them into Captivity.
We must now take a step backwards, and a little consider the Eastern Plantations. For in the Month of September, did the flame break out there. Some who had their hearts exercised in discerning things of 〈…〉 were from the beginning of the War, not without sad Apprehe•• 〈…〉 terning the Inhabitants in those parts of the Country, in that they ⟨p. 13⟩scattered people, and such as had many of them Scandalized the Heathen, and lived themselves too like unto the Heathen, without any Instituted Ordinances, also the Indians thereabouts were more numerous then in some other places. They began their Outrages, at the House of one Mr. Purchase, who had been a great Trader with the Indians After that they came to the House of an old Man in Casco-bay, whose name was Wakely. Him with his Wife. Son and Daughter in law (who was great with Childe) and two Grandchildren, they cruelly Murdered, and took three Children alive, and led them into Captivity.