An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of…

yet I do believe, that if the Lord had not had a righteous design utterly to destroy those of the Heathen Nations who have refused and horribly contemned the Gospel, they had not been permitted to do what they have done, that so they might bring swift destruction upon themselves, God may bring us Low, but he will not make a full end of us; as he will with our Adversaries, who are implacably set against his name and interest witness that Scripture, Jer. 46. 28. Fear thou not O my servant Jacob, and he not […] O Israel, for behold I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed, for I am with thee, and I will make a full end of all the Nations whether I have driven thee, but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee ⟨p. 22⟩[…] measure, yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished. And that Scripture, Psal. 79. 6, 7. Pour out thy wrath upon the Heathen that have not known […] and upon the Kingdoms that have not called upon thy Name, for they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place, yea and that Scripture, Isai. 41. 12. They that War against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. Let us not then be faithless but believing. There hath been much prayer made before the Lord on our behalf, and now we hear that the Churches in Europe join with us in earnest cries to Heaven, certainly those Prayers and tears will come pouring down at last in streams of blood, and fire, and vengeance upon the Heathen: the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his Temple is not far off. The Lord hath a controversy with the Heathen, and therefore he hath suffered them (in a degree) to pull down his Temple, that so they might pull down vengeance upon themselves for ever, God hath ways to bring them down that we cannot think of: he can soon mingle a perverse Spirit amongst them, and cause them to destroy one another, he that did sometimes set the Egyptians against the Egyptians can set the Indians against the Indians, & who knoweth but that the Lord may do as in the day of Midian? And it may be God will send the destroying Angel amongst them, it is noted in the Memorials of New-England (p. 23, 27.)

yet I do believe, that if the Lord had not had a righteous designe utterly to destroy those of the Heathen Nations who have refused and horribly contemned the Gospel, they had not been permitted to do what they have done, that so they might bring swift destruction upon themselves, God may bring us Low, but he will not make a full end of us; as he will with our Adversaries, who are implacably set against his name and interest witness that Scripture,