Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…

For the present then, we have done with the Indians. But while the Indians have been thus molesting us, we have suffered Molestations of another sort, from another sort of Enemies, which may with very good Reason, be cast into the same History with them. If the Indians have chosen to prey upon the Frontiers, and Out-Skirts, of the Province, the Quakers have chosen the very same Frontiers, and Out-Skirts, for their more Spiritual Assaults; and finding little Success elsewhere, they have been Labouring incessantly and sometimes not unsuccessfully, to Enchant and Poison the Souls of poor people, in the very places, where the Bodies and Estates, of the people have presently after been devoured by the Salvages. But that which makes it the more agreeable, to allow the Quakers, an Article in our History of the Indians, is, That a certain silly Scribbler, the very First-born of Non-sensicality, (and a First-born too, that one might Salute as the Martyr Polycarp once did the wicked Marcion,) One Tom Maul, at this Time Living in Salem, hath exposed unto the Public, a Volume of Nonsensical Blasphemies and Heresies, wherein he sets himself to Defend ⟨p. 163⟩the Indians, in their Bloody Villainies, and Revile the Country for Defending it self against them. And that the Venom of this Pamphlet might •e Improved unto the Height of Slanderous Wickedness, there hath been since added unto it, in another Pamphlet, a parcel of Ingredients compounded, for mischief, as if by the Art of the Apothecary. None but he, whom the Jews, in their Talmuds call, Ben-tamalion could have inspired such a Slanderer! Have the Quakers ever yet Censured, this their Author, for holding forth in his Alcoran, [pag. 221.] That the Devil, Sin, Death, and Hell, are but Nothing, they are but a Non-Entity: And, [pag. 183.] […] all men who have a Body of Sin remaining in them, are Witches? I have cause to believe, that they never did! Nor that they ever advised him to pull in his Horns, from goring the sides of New-England, with such passages as those, in [pag. 195.] the same horrible Pamphlet: God ath well Rewarded the Inhabitants of New-England, for their Unrighteous Dealings, towards the Native Indians, whom now the Lord hath suffered to Rewr the Inhabitants, with a double measure of Blood, by Fire and Sword, &c.