N00162:76
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.
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.
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 bosome, 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 Churthes Westward were numbling themselves before the •. Within a few dayes after this, certain Indians did some mischiefs at Malbery, Sudbery, Chelmsford.
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