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Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…
Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian savages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. / Faithfully composed and improved. ; [One line of quotation in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There are Five or Six witnesses, which I have to attest unto the Truth of this Relation, which I have here given, of a Conference, with a Quaker, which had all the Friends far and near wondering (as well as wandering) after him, And yet these Cretans boasted among their Friends, how much they had confounded the Minister in this Conference.
There are Five or Six witnesses, which I have to attest unto the Truth of this Relation, which I have here given, of a Conference, with a Quaker, which had all the Friends far and near wondering (as well as wandring) after him, And yet these Cretians boasted among their Friends, how much they had confounded the Minister in this Conference.
All that I would presume now to Commend unto those Towns, which have such Quakers annoying of them, is This Brethren carry it well, even with all convenient Civility & Humanity, towards this Poor Deluded People; while you Charge your Children and Servants, that they do not go unto their Meetings: and cast not our selves also into Temptation, by needlessly being There. But after all, yea, before all, make an Experiment, which the Good People at Lin made a little while ago, with a Success truly observable and memorable.
All that I would presume now to Commend unto those Towns, which have such Quakers annoying of them, is This Brethren carry it well, even with all convenient Civility & Humanity, towards this Poor Deluded People; while you Charge your Children and Servants, that they do not go unto their Meetings: and cast not our selves also into Temptation, by needlessly being There. But after all, yea, before all, make an Experiment, which the Good People at Lyn made a little while ago, with a Success truly observable and memorable.
The Quakers made a more than ordinary Descent upon the Town of Lin, and Quakerism suddenly spread there, at such a rate as to Alarm the Neighbourhood. The Pastor of the Church there, Indicted a Day, for Prayer with Fasting, to Implore the Help of Heaven against the unaccountable Enchantment; and the Good People presented accordingly, on July 19. 1694. their fervent Supplications, unto the Lord, that the Spiritual Plague might proceed no further, The Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ gave a Remarkable Effect, unto this Holy Method of Encounting the Charms of Quakerism: It proved a Better method, than any Coercion of the Civil Magistrate: Quakerism in Lin received (as I am informed) a Death-Wound, from that very Day; The Number of Quakers, in that place hath been so far from Increasing, that I am