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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.
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 ⟨p. 183⟩told, it hath since rather Decreased notably. Now let other Endangered Plantations; Go, and do likewise.
The Quakers made a more than ordinary Descent upon the Town of Lyn, and Quakerism suddenly spread there, at such a rate as to Alarum 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 servent 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 Lyn 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 ⟨p. 183⟩told, it hath since rather Decreased notably. Now let other Endangered Plantations; Go, and do likewise.
The Quakers, are such Enemies, to the Holy Religion, which is the Life of New England, That you must Excuse my concern to have you Fortified against their Attempts also, while I am giving you an History of your other Enemies. What all of them would be at, methinks, was a little intimated by what One of them once Declared. The GlobeTavern was near our Public and Spacious MeetingHouse at Salem: and a Noted Quaker there caused a paper to be set up on the Door of that MeetingHouse, which had such Stuff as this written in it.