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The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurred, first…The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurr'd, first…
The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurred, first in the protections, and then in the afflictions, of New-England. : With a representation of certain matters calling for the singular attention of that country. Made at Boston-lecture, in the audience of the great and General Assembly of the province of the Massachusett-Bay, June 7. 1694. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines from Samuel]The short history of New-England. A recapitulation of wonderful passages which have occurr'd, first in the protections, and then in the afflictions, of New-England. : With a representation of certain matters calling for the singular attention of that country. Made at Boston-lecture, in the audience of the great and General Assembly of the province of the Massachusett-Bay, June 7. 1694. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines from Samuel]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1694
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If our Walls had not been bro•e• down, had the Wasting Fevers of the more Southern Indies broke in upon us, as •hey have done of late years, to render […] as like the other West•Indi•n •l•ntati•ns, for our Natural •istempers, as we become […] them for our Moral ones? If our Wall• ⟨p. 5⟩had not been broken down, had worse things than Fevers, even Indians, broke in upon us, as they have newly done, to lay wh•le Counties desolate, and barbarously Butcher more than a Thousand of our Inhabitants? I• our Walls had not been broken down, had worse things than Indians, even Devils, broke in upon us, as they have sadly done, to Confound us wi•h such Preternatural Operations, as have been the just Astonishment of the World? Worse yet! If our Walls had not been broken down, had worse things things than Devils, even Di••s, broke in upon us, as they do a pa•e, to Complete our horrible Defection from our First Loves, and our First Ways, and make us, as the Degenerate Plant of a Str•nge Vine before the Lord? In Truth, We may over our Country utter that Sigh, in Psal. 89.10. Lord, Thou hast broken down all us Hedges.
If our Walls had not been bro•e• down, had the Wasting Fevers of the more Southern Indi•s broke in upon us, as •hey have done of late years, to render as like the other WestIndin lntatins, for our Natural istempers, as we become them for our Moral ones? If our Wall