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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.
March. 27. Some of the in habitants of Sudbury, being alarumed by what the Indians did yesterday to their neighbours in Malbury, apprehending they might come upon the enemy unawares, in case they should march after them in the night time, they resolved to try what might be done ⟨image ?⟩and that not altogether without success. For towards the morning whilst it was yet dark, they discerned where the Indians lay by their Fires. And such was their boldness, as that about three hundred of them lay all night within half a mile of one of the garrison houses in that town where they had done such mischief the day before. […] the darkness was such as an English man could not be discerned from an Indian, yet ours being forty in number discharged several times upon the enemy, and (as Indians […] fierce that time •o confess) God so disposed of the bullets that were shot at that time, that no less then thirty Indians were wounded of whom there were fourteen that dyed several of which had been principal actors in the late bloody Tragedies. The fired hard upon the English, but neither killed nor wounded so much as one man in the […].
March. 27. Some of the in habitants of Sudbury, being alarumed by what the Indians did yesterday to their neighbours in Malbury, apprehending they might come upon the enemy unawares, in case they should march after them in the night time, they resolved to try what might be done ⟨image ?⟩and that not altogether without success. For towards the morning whilst it was yet dark, they discerned where the Indians lay by their Fires. And such was their boldness, as that about three hundred of them lay all night within half a mile of one of the garison houses in that town where they had done such mischief the day before. 〈…〉 the darkness was such as an English man cou'd not be discerned from an Indian, yet ours being forty in number discharged several times upon the enemy, and (as Indians 〈…〉 firce that time •o confess) God so disposed of the bullets that were shot at that time, that no less then thirty Indians were wounded of whom there were fourteen that dyed several of which had been principal actors in the late bloudy Tragedyes. The fired hard upon the English, but neither killed nor wounded so much as one man in the .