N00162:86
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.
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.
March. 20. Some of them returned into the Narraganset Country, and burnt down the remaining English houses there.
We are now come to the conclusion of the year 1675. which hath been the most troublesome year that ever poor New-England saw. What ending the present year shall have, is with God, but it hath a most doleful beginning.
We are now come to the conclusion of the year 1675. which hath been the most troublesome year that ever poor New-England saw. What ending the present year shall have, is with God, but it hath a most dolefull beginning.
For March 26. 1676. being the Sabbath-day, the Indians assaulted Malbery, and consumed a great part of the town: after which the inhabitants apprehended themselves under a necessity of […] that place which was