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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.
When they had done that, they […] and blasphemed, and came to Mr. Willard (the worthy Pastor of the Church there) his house (which being Fortified, they attempted not to destroy it) and tauntingly, said, What Will you do for a house to pray in now we have burnt your Meeting-house? Thus hath the Enemy done wickedly in the Sanctuary, they have burnt up the Synagogues of God in the Land; they have cast fire into the Sanctuary; they have cast down the dwelling place of his name to the Ground. O God, how long shall the Adversary reproach? shall the Enemy Blaspheme thy Name for ever? Why withdrawest thou thine band, even thy right band• pluck it out of thy b•some.
When they had done that, they 〈…〉 and blasphemed, and came to Mr. Willard (the worthy Pastor of the Church there) his house (which being Fortified, they attempted not to destroy it) and tauntingly, said, What Will you do for a house to pray in now we have burnt your Meeting-house? Thus hath the Enemy done wickedly in the Sanctuary, they have burnt up the Synagogues of God in the Land; they have cast fire into the Sanctuary; they have cast down the dwelling place of his name to the Ground. O God, how long shall the Adversary reproach? shall the Enemy Blaspheme thy Name for ever? Why withdrawest thou thine band, even thy right band• pluck it out of thy b•some.
March, 17. This day the Indians fell upon Warwick, and burnt it down to the ground, all but one house.
March. 20. Some of them returned into the Narragansett Country, and burnt down the remaining English houses there.