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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.
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 ⟨image ?⟩done accordingly; so that here is another Candlestick removed out of his place. This day also, Captain Pierce of Situate with a party of about fifty English, and twenty Indians, who were Friends to the English, pursued a small number of the Enemy, who in desperate subtlety ran away from them, and they went limping to make the English believe they were lame, till they had led them into a snare: for suddenly a vast body of Indians did encompass them round; so that Captain Pierce was slain, and forty and nice English with him, and eight (or more) Indians who did assist the English, and fought bravely in that engagement.
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 ⟨image ?⟩done accordingly; so that here is another Candlestick removed out of his place. This day also, Captain Pierce of Scituate with a party of about fifty English, and twenty Indians, who were Friends to the English, pursued a small number of the Enemy, who in desperate subtilty ran away from them, and they went limping to make the English believe they were lame, till they had led them into a snare: for suddenly a vast body of Indians did encompass them round; so that Captain Pierce was slain, and forty and nice English with him, and eight (or more) Indians who did assist the English, and fought bravely in that engagement.