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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.
IX. Where Churches are bent upon Backsliding ▪ and carried away with a strong Spirit of Apostasy, whatever Minister shall set himself to withstand their Evil Bents, will pull upon himself an inexpressible contempt and hatred; Be his merits never so Great, a Thousand Arts will be used for to make him Little; He had need be a man of Great Faith and Great Prayer; But God will at length Honour such a man, with wonderful Recompenses.
IX. Where Churches are bent upon Backsliding ▪ and carried away with a strong Spirit of Apostasy, whatever Minister shall set himself to withstand their Evil Bents, will pull upon himself an inexpressible contempt and hatred; Be his merits never so Great, a Thousand Arts will be used for to make him Little; He had need be a man of Great Faith and Great Prayer; But God will at length Honour such a man, with wonderful Recompences.
X. Where a Fountain shall become Corrupt ▪ there the Streams will no longer Make Glad the City of God.
XI. The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have with much expense, lately sent unto several of our Southern Plantations: If it be Rejected, there are Terrible Things to come upon them; ⟨p. 197⟩'twere better to have Lived in Sodom, than in one of those Plantations.
XI. The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have with much expence, lately sent unto several of our Southern Plantations: If it be Rejected, there are Terrible Things to come upon them;