[Terribilia Dei. Remarkable judgements of God, on several sorts of offenders, in several scores…

But the Indian Salvages, are not the only Instances of the Divine Revenges, w•ich have Ensued on mens Undervaluing the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, among us. Travel with me, Sirs, to the Eastern Parts of this Province; O come & behold the Works of the Lord, the Desolations He has made in those parts of the Earth. Twice has that brave Country, been occupied with Hopeful Settlements. Hopeful! No, No; call them not Hopeful; inasmuch as the Ordinances of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, were not settled among them. Hence, Twice has that Country now be•n made an Aceldama; and the Settlements have all been broken up, for many scores of Miles together. The Jealousy of the Neglected Lord Jesus Christ, has broke forth, like an Unquenchable Fire against those Plantations; the Fiery Wrath of Heaven has brought a Swift Destruction upon them. A Barbarous Enemy has once and again, broke in upon those Towns, like ⟨p. 32⟩an Irresistible Torrent, carrying all before it, until they come to those Towns, where the Ordinances of the Gospel are more upheld, and, behold, there they find a Barrier, which they cannot yet get over; There the Spirit of the Lord lifts up a Standard against them! In one of those Plantations, there had newly been very prodigious Discoveries of Enmity against the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, which had been sometimes among them: And a bloody Adversary soon surprised them, and Captived and Slaughtered the most of them, and Laid their Habitations in Ashes, and horribly Roasted alive some of the Inhabitants. Tremble, O ye people of the South, when you are told of this!