N00441:107
Fair weather. Or Considerations to dispel the clouds, & allay the storms, of discontent
Fair weather. Or Considerations to dispel the clouds, & allay the storms, of discontent: in a discourse which with an entertaining variety, both of argument and history, lays open, the nature and evil of that pernicious vice, and offers diverse antidotes against it; / by Cotton Mather. ; Whereto there is prefixed a catalogue of sins against all the commandments, whereof all that would make thorough work of repentance, especially at this day when the God of heaven so loudly calls for it, should make their serious and sensible confessions before the Lord; with an humble and fervent address unto this whole people, there-about.Fair weather. Or Considerations to dispel the clouds, & allay the storms, of discontent: in a discourse which with an entertaining variety, both of argument and history, layes open, the nature and evil of that pernicious vice, and offers diverse antidotes against it; / by Cotton Mather. ; Whereto there is prefixed a catalogue of sins against all the commandments, whereof all that would make thorough work of repentance, especially at this day when the God of heaven so loudly calls for it, should make their serious and sensible confessions before the Lord; with an humble and fervent address unto this whole people, there-about.
Boston: printed by Bartholomew Green for Benjamin Harris, 1692
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It is then to be distinctly Related, That the Indians yet living in Hostility against us, after they had by a long silence and repose, in their Inaccessible Kennels of Late, made our Frontier Towns in the North-East, a little too Remiss, they did on the 25th of this Instant January, 1691. come upon part of York, in the Province of Main, where the Inhabitants were in their Unguarded Houses here and there Scattered, Quiet and Secure Upon the Firing of a Gun by the Indians, which was their Signal, the Inhabitants Looked out; but unto their Amazement found their Houses to be Invested with horrid Indians, who immediately Killed many of these unprovided Inhabitants; and more they took Prisoners. Having dispatched their Slaughter, they went on to Plunder, both rising, those Houses, which thus became obnoxious, and Burning about Seventeen of them. Hereupon, this Great Body of indians went […] to some of the Garrisons; and […] them to Surrender; their […] they fine in Writing, by […] of the Captives who had the Generosity ⟨p. 89⟩to Return into the Hands of the Monsters that were become their Masters, lest by their breaking of their Word, the other Prisoners might be Exposed: and therein they promised, If they would Surrender their Garrison, they would let 'em go free; For, as these Flouting Rogues would have it inserted, They were a people that Fear God, and won't Lye; if they promise, they will be as good as their word; else they know they shall burn under ground; and if they Lye, God will not have them; they added, They were Three Hundred Strong. Some little Garrisons, which had no more than two or three men in them, received these wild Summons, but they had the Courage to Reply, That they would s•end their Blood unto the last Drop, are they would Surrender; and upon this, those Cowardly Miscreants had not mettle enough to meddle with them. They Retired into the Howling Thickets of the Wilderness; carrying their Booty with them; only sending Home two aged Women and about fifteen or sixteen little Children, whom they were loth to be ••••led with, and yet, which is […] and strange! were loth to Murder them.
It is then to be distinctly Related, That the Indians yet living in Hostility against us, after they had by a long silence and repose, in their Inaccessible Kennels of Late, made our Frontier Towns in the North-East, a little too Remiss, they did on the 25th of this Instant January, 1691. come upon part of York, in the Province of Main, where the Inhabitants were in their Unguarded Houses here and there Scattered, Quiet and Secure Upon the Firing of a Gun by the Indians, which was their Signal, the Inhabitants Look'd out; but unto their Amazement found their Houses to be Invested with horrid Indians, who immediately Kill'd many of these unprovided Inhabitants; and more they took Prisoners. Having dispatch'd their Slaughter, they went on to Plunder, both rising, those Houses, which thus became obxious, and Burning about Seventeen of them. Hereupon, this Great Body of indians went to some of the Garrisons; and them to Surrender; their they fine in Writing, by of the Captives who had the Generosity