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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.
For upon the 10th. day of February some hundreds of the Indians fell upon Lancaster, burnt many of the Houses, killed and took Captive above forty persons. Mr. Rowlandson (the faithful Pastor of the Church there) had his House, Goods, Books, all burned, his Wife, and all his Children led away Captive before the Enemy. Himself (as God would have it) was not at home, whence his own person was delivered, which otherwise (without a Miracle) would have been endangered. Eight man lost their lives, and were stripped naked by the Indians, because they ventured their lives to save Mrs. Rowlandson.
For upon the 10th. day of February some hundreds of the Indians fell upon Lancaster, burnt many of the Houses, kill'd and took Cap•ive above forty persons. Mr. Rowlandson (the faithful Pastor of the Church there) had his House, Goods, Books, all burned, his Wife, and all his Children led away Captive before the Enemy. Himself (as God would have it) was not at home, whence his own person was delivered, which otherwise (without a Miracle) would have been endangered. Eight man lost their lives, and were stripped naked by the Indians, because they ventured their lives to save Mrs. Rowlandson.
As this good Man returned home (having been at Boston to intercede with the Council that something might be done for the safety of that place) he saw his Lancaster in flames, and his own house burnt down, not having heard of it till his eyes beheld it, and knew not what was become of the Wife of his bosom, and Children of his Bowels. This was a most […] Providence, and hath made me often think on those words, though Noa•, Job and ⟨image ?⟩Daniel were in it, they should deliver but their own Souls, they should deliver neither 1Sons nor Daughters, they only shall be delivered, but the Land shall be desolate. And this desolation is the more tremendous; in that this very day, the Churches Westward were numbling themselves before the . Within a few days after this, certain Indians did some mischiefs at Malbery, Sudbury, Chelmsford.