Soldiers counselled and comforted. A discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged…Souldiers counselled and comforted. A discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged…

Know, Lastly That your Success is very probable. Indeed, God may Humble us, and Abase us, and vex us yet by that Foolish Nation, which he has let Loose upon us; but we may believe that They shall all shortly perish by the Arms of His New-English Israel. They! What are they, but Bloody and Deceitful men? And you may look to be Instruments of Executing what God has denounced on them, That they shall not Live out half their day. Even They themselves not only may, but perhaps Do expect utter Desolation, and Extirpation; and they would soon lay down their Arms, if he that hurried the Swine of old, had not a wonderful possession of them. That old Sagamore and Conjurer Passaconnoway, whose Posterity 'tis (among the rest) that we are now galled by […] When he lay Dying about Thirty Years ago, did in a great Assembly of Indians, thus take his Farewell of his Children, I am ready to Die (said he) and I now Leave this Counsel with you; Take heed how you Quarrel with the English; for tho' you may do them some Hurt, you will yourselves be all rooted out of the Earth, if you do. I was as great an Enemy to the English at their first coming here, as any one, & I tried all mays to prevent their Settlement, but I am convinced, there can be no effecting of it. These Counsels and Commands are Disobeyed by some ⟨p. 36⟩of his wicked Children; whose Days we may therefore think, shall not be Long in the Land. Indeed, They have none to Assist them, but the worst Auxiliaries in the World; the Devils and the Papists. The Devils have a great Hand in Exciting and Supporting of them; and hence the last Winter, from the mouth of a possessed Child among us They gave (I think) a very broad Notice of the Slaughters which the Summer would produce. That These have had a Long, and an Old Interest in America cannot be reasonably questioned by them that shall read what was written even before the Birth of our Saviour, by Diodorus Sicul•s, In very Ancient Times says he, the Phoenicians tossed with Storms, after many days, arrived unto this Vast Island (as he calls it) which then had stately Buildings in it. Hither the Devils did seduce a wretched party of Mankind, that they might have them out of the Gospels Way when it spread thro' the Old World, by the Ministry of the Apostles; and here they have Reigned as Kings, as Gods, without control, over millions of people for Ages not a few.

Know, Lastly That your Success is very probable. Indeed, God may Humble us, and Abase us, and vex us yet by that Foolish Nation, which he has let Loose upon us; but we may believe that They shall all shortly perish by the Arms of His New-English Israel. They! What are they, but Bloody and Deceitful men? And you may look to be Instruments of Executing what God has denounced on them, That they shall not Live out half their day. Even They themselves not only may, but perhaps Do expect utter Desolation, and Extirpation; and they would soon lay down their Arms, if he that hurried the Swine of old, had not a wonderful possession of them. That old Sagamore and Conjurer Passaconnoway, whose Posterity 'tis (among the rest) that we are now galled by When he lay Dying about Thirty Years ago, did in a great Assembly of Indians, thus take his Farewel of his Children, I am ready to Dy (said he) and I now Leave this Counsil with you; Take heed how you Quarrel with the English; for tho' you may do them some Hurt, you will yourselves be all rooted out of the Earth, if you do. I was as great an Enemy to the English at their first coming here, as any one, & I try'd all mays to prevent their Settlement, but I am convinced, there can be no effecting of it. These Counsils and Commands are Disobeyed by some