An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of…

Octob the 7th. This day of Humiliation appointed by the Council, was solemnly observed: yet attended with awful restemonyes of divine displeasure. The very next day after this Fast was agreed upon by those in evil Authority, was that dismal […] fatal blow, when Captain Lothrop and his company (in all near upon four score souls) were slaughtered, whereby the Heathen were wonderfully animated, some of them triumphing and saying, that so great slaughter was never known: and indeed in their Wars one with another, the like hath […] heard of. And that […] day when this fast was kept, […] persons were killed by the Indians near Doom, one of them going front […] public Worship. Also that very day at the close of it, the sad tidings of Springfield's Calamity came to us here is Boston. And ⟨p. 17⟩inasmuch as this news came at the conclusion of a day of Humiliation, surely the Solemn voice of God to New-England is still as formerly, Praying without Reforming will not do. And now is the day come where in the Lord is fulfilling the word which himself hath spoken, saying, I will send wild Beans among you, which shall rob you of your Children, and destroy your Cattle, and make you few in number, and if you will not be reformed by these things, I will bring your Sanctuaries to Desolation, and I will not smell the Sweet Saves of your Odours. The Providence of God is never to be forgotten, in that Churches have been signally spared for so long a time. Although some Plantations wherein Churches have been settled were in most eminent danger, and the Enemy might easily have swallowed them up, yet God so ordered that they received little or no detriment, when other places were laid utterly waste, the Lord an […] how loth he was to disgrace the Throne of his Glory, but now he begins with the Sanctuary. As for Springfield's misery it thus came to pass: Whereas there was a body of Indians that lived in a Fort near to that Town of Springfield, and professed nothing but Friendship towards the English; they treacherously brake in upon the Town, when a party of our Soldiers who had been there, were newly gone to Hadly. They killed several, amongst others their Lieutenant Cooper was most […] Murdered by them, without the least occasion or Provocation given. They burnt down to the ground above thirty dwelling-houses, and above twenty out-houses: amongst others Mr.

Octob the 7th. This day of Hamilition appointed by the Council, was solemnly observed: yet acended with awfull restemonyes of divine displeasure. The very next day after this Fast was agreed upon by those in evill Authority, was that dismul fatal blow, when Captain Lothrop and his company (in all near upon four score souls) were slaughtered, whereby the Heathen were wonderfully animated, some of them triumphing and saying, that so great slaughter was never known: and indeed in their Warrs one with another, the like hath heard of. And that day when this fast was kept, persons were killed by the Indians near Doom, one of them going front publick Worship. Also that very day at the close of it, the sad tidings of Springfields Calamity came to us here is Boston. And