An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

Concerning Remarkable Judgements. Quakers judicially plagued with spiritual Judgments. Of several sad Instances in Long Island. And in Plymouth Colony. That some of the Quakers are really possessed with Infernal Spirits. Proved by a late wonderful Example of one at Balsham near Cambridge in England. Of several who imprecated vengeance upon themselves. The woeful end of Drunkards. And of those that have designed evil against the Churches of Christ in New-England.

Concerning Remarkable Judgements. Quakers judicially plagued with spiritual Judgments. Of several sad Instances in LongIsland. And in Plimouth Colony. That some of the Quakers are really possessed with Infernal Spirits. Proved by a late wonderful Example of one at Balsham near Cambridge in England. Of several who imprecated vengeance upon themselves. The woful end of Drunkards. And of those that have designed evil against the Churches of Christ in New-England.

Those memorable Judgements which the Hand of Heaven had executed upon notorious Sinners, are to be reckoned amongst Remarkable Providences. Lubricus bic locus & difficilis. He undertakes a difficult province that shall relate all that might be spoken on such a Subject, both in that it cannot but be gravaminous to surviving Relations, when such things are published, also in that men are apt to misapply the unsearchable Judgements of God, which are a great deep, as Job's Friends did; and wicked Papists have done the like; with respect to the untimely death of famous Zuinglius. We ⟨p. 339⟩may not judge of Men merely by outward accidents which befall them in this World, since all things happen alike unto all, and no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. We have seen amongst our selves, that the Lords faithful Servants have sometimes been the Subjects of very dismal dispensations. There happened a most awful providence at Farmington in Connecticut Colony, Dec. 14. 1666. When the House of Serjeant John Hart taking fire in the night, no man knows how, (only it is conjectured that it might be occasioned by an Oven) he and his Wife, and six Children were all burned to death before the Neighbours Knew any thing of it, so that his whole Family had been extinguished by the fatal Flames of that unhappy night, had not one of his Children been providentially from home at that time. This Hart was esteemed a choice Christian, and his Wife also a good Woman. Such things sometimes fall upon those that are dear unto God, to intimate, if this be done to the green tree, what shall be done to the dry, that is fit for nothing but the fire. Nevertheless, a Judgement may be so circumstanced, as that the displeasure of Heaven is plainly written upon it, in legible Characters. On which account it is said, that the wrath of God