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An essay for the recording of illustrious providences
An essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein, an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events, which have happened in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1684
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.
It would fill a Volume to give an account of all the memorable Preservations in the time of the late War with the Indians.
Remarkable was that which happened to Jabes Musgrove of Newbury, who being shot ⟨p. 39⟩by an Indian, the Bullet entered in at his Ear and went out at his Eye, on the other side of his Head, yet the Man was preserved from Death, yea, and is still in the Land of the living.
Remarkable was that which hapned to Jabes Musgrove of Newbery, who being shot ⟨p. 39⟩by an Indian, the Bullet entred in at his Ear and went out at his Eye, on the other side of his Head, yet the Man was preserved from Death, yea, and is still in the Land of the living.
Likewise several of those that were taken Captive by the Indians are able to relate affecting Stories concerning the gracious Providence of God, in carrying them through many Dangers and Deaths, and at last setting their feet in a large place again. A Worthy Person hath sent me the Account which one lately belonging to Deerfield, (his name is Quintin Stockwell,) hath drawn up respecting his own Captivity and Redemption, with the more notable Occurrences of Divine Providence attending him in his distress, which I shall therefore here insert in the Words by himself expressed: He Relateth as follows;
Likewise several of those that were taken Captive by the Indians are able to relate affecting Stories concerning the gracious Providence of God, in carrying them through many Dangers and Deaths, and at last setting their feet in a large place again. A Worthy Person hath sent me the Account which one lately belonging to Deerfield, (his name is Quintin Stockwell,) hath drawn up respecting his own Captivity and Redemption, with the more notable Occurrences of Divine Providence attending him in his distress, which I shall therefore here insert in the Words by himself expressed: He Relateth asfollowes;