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

October 19. The Conclusions of the Committee, respecting Reformation of provoking evils were signed, and delivered in to the General Court, who voted acceptance thereof, and appointed another Committer to draw up Laws in order to the establishment of the things agreed on. Now as I remember that famous Martyrologist Mr. Fox ( in Acts & Monuments vol. 2 pag. 669.) observes, with respect to the Reformation in K. Edward the 6th his days, that that very day and hour when the Act for Reformation was put in execution at London, God gave the English signal victory against the Scots at Museleburrough; so it was proportionably) with us. For that day when there was a vote passed for the Suppression and Reformation of those manifest evils, whereby the eyes of Gods Glory are provoked amongst us, the Lord gave success to our Forces, who that day encountered with the Indians at Hatfield. The English lost but one man in the fight (albeit some that were sent forth as Scouts were killed or Captivated) the Enemy fled before them, and ran into the River, many of them being seen to fall, but night coming on, it was in vain to follow them further. And after that day, the Western Plantations had little or no disturbance by them, but lived in quietness all the Winter. All this notwithstanding, we may say as sometimes the Lords people of old, the Harvest is past, the Summer is ended, and we are not saved. The Sword having marched Eastward, & Westward, and Northward, now beginneth to face toward the South again. The Narragansets, who were the greatest body of Indians in New-England; there being no less then six Sachems amongst them; having not as yet appeared in open ⟨image ?⟩Hostility. Nevertheless Philips and Squaw-Sachems meet when routed by the English Forces, were harboured amongst the Narragansets, when the Commissioners of the united Colonies sat at Boston, in the […] end of September, one of the Narragansett Sachems, and Messengers from other Sachems there, made their appearance in Boston; they pretended nothing but good-will to the English, and promised that those Enemies of ours, who had burnt so many houses, and committed so many Murders, and had fled to them for refuge, should be delivered up by the latter end of October.

October 19. The Conclusions of the Committee, respecting Reformation of provoking evils were signed, and delivered in to the General Court, who voted acceptance thereof, and appointed another Committer to draw up Laws in order to the establishment of the things agreed on. Now as I remember that famous Martyrologist Mr. Fox ( in Acts & Monuments vol. 2 pag. 669.) observes, with respect to the Reformation in K. Edward the 6th his dayes, that that very day and hour when the Act for Reformation was put in execution at London, God gave the English signal victory against the Scots at Museleburrough; so it was proportionably) with us. For that day when there was a vote passed for the Suppression and Reformation of those manifest evils, whereby the eyes of Gods Glory are provoked amongst us, the Lord gave success to our Forces, who that day encountred with the Indians at Hatfield. The English lost but one man in the fight (albeit some that were sent forth as Scouts were killed or Captivated) the Enemy fled before them, and ran into the River, many of them being seen to fall, but night coming on, it was in vain to follow them further. And after that day, the Western Plantations had little or no disturbance by them, but lived in quietness all the Winter. All this notwithstanding, we may say as sometimes the Lords people of old, the Harvest is past, the Summer is ended, and we are not saved. The Sword having marched Eastward, & Westward, and Northward, now beginneth to face toward the South again. The Narragansets, who were the greatest body of Indians in New-England; there being no less then six Sachims amongst them; having not as yet appeared in open