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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.
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; ⟨p. 197⟩'twere better to have Lived in Sodom, than in one of those Plantations.
XII. God prepare our dear Brethren, in Connecticut, for certain Changes that are Impending over them.
XII. God prepare our dear Brethren, in Connectecut, for certain Changes that are Impending over them.
Finally; There was a Town called, Amyclae, which was Ruined by Silence. The Rulers, because there had been some false Alarms, forbade all people under pain of Death to speak of any Enemies approaching them: So, when the Enemies came indeed, no man durst speak of it, and the Town was Lost. Corruptions will grow upon the Land; and they will gain by Silence: 'Twill be so Invidious to do it, No man will dare to speak of the Corruptions; and the Fate of Amyclae will come upon the Land.
Finally; There was a Town called, Amyclae, which was Ruined by Silence. The Rulers, because there had been some false Alarms, forbad all people under pain of Death to speak of any Enemies approaching them: So, when the Enemies came indeed, no man durst speak of it, and the Town was Lost. Corruptions will grow upon the Land; and they will gain by Silence: 'Twill be so Invidious to do it, No man will dare to speak of the Corruptions; and the Fate of Amyclae will come upon the Land.
Reader, I ••ll'd these things Prophecy, But, I wish, I be not all this while Writing History.
Now, if any Discerning persons, apprehend any Dangers to In•pend over New-England, from any of the Symptoms mentioned, it is to be […], they will Employ their best Thoughts, how to Anticipate those Dangers. And whereas, 'tis the sense of all men, who discern any thing, that it is in vain to hope for any Good, until a Spirit of Grace, be poured out from Heaven, ⟨p. 198⟩to dispose men unto it, I beg them to consider, whether the only way to obtain that Spirit of Grace, be not, Humbly to Ask it, by Prayer with Fasting before the God of Heaven.
Now, if any Discerning persons, apprehend any Dangers to In•pend over New-England, from any of the Symptom•s mentioned, it is to be 〈…〉, they will Employ their best Thoughts, how to Anticipate those Dangers. And whereas, 'tis the sense of all men, who discern any thing, that it is in vain to hope for any Good, until a Spirit of Grace, be poured out from Heaven, ⟨p. 198⟩to dispose men unto it, I beg them to consider, whether the only way to obtain that Spirit of Grace, be not, Humbly to Ask it, by Prayer with Fasting before the God of Heaven.
It was therefore an Article in an Advice agreed, by some of the principal Ministers in this Province; and with the mention of that Advice, (which doubtless, all but the Sleeping will follow) I'll conclude; Solemn Days of Prayer with Fasting, celebrated in our Churches, to Implore the Grace of God, for the Rising Generation, would probably be of blessed consequence, for the Turning of our Young people, unto the God of our Fathers. The more there is this way ascribed unto Grace, the more the Grace of God is like to be communicated; and there is in this way, a natural and a plentiful Tendency to Awaken our Unconverted Youth, unto a sense of their Everlasting Interests; Which were it generally accomplished, a Remarkable Reformation where therein Effected.
It was therefore an Article in an Advice agreed, by some of the principal Ministers in this Province; and with the mention of that Advice, (which doubtless, all but the Sleeping will follow) I'l conclude; Solemn Days of Prayer with Fasting, celebrated in our Churches, to Implore the Grace of God, for the Rising Generation, would probably be of blessed consequence, for the Turning of our Young people, unto the God of our Fathers. The more there is this way ascribed unto Grace, the more the Grace of God is like to be communicated; and there is in this way, a natural and a plentiful Tendency to Awaken our Unconverted Youth, unto a sense of their Everlasting Interests; Which were it generally accomplished, a Remarkable Reformation where therein Effected.
Observable Things.
THE HISTORY OF Ten Years Rolled away under the great Calamities of A WAR, WITH Indian-Salvages: Repeated and Improved, in a SERMON, at Boston-Lecture. 27d. 7m. 1698.
Judg. VI. 3, 5, 6. The Children of the EAST came up against them; and they Entered into the Land, to Destroy it; and Israel was greatly Impoverished.
Judg. VI. 3, 5, 6. The Children of the EAST came up against them; and they Entred into the Land, to Destroy it; and Israel was greatly Impoverished.
Boston, Printed for Samuel Phillips, at the Brick Shop. 1699.
When the Israelites were Engaged in a WAR, they made choice of a Priest among them, to Serve some of their greatest Occasions in it, and after a Sacred Unction bestowed upon him, we are told by Maimonides, he was called Mashuach Milchamah, that is to say, Unctus Belli; which was as much as to say, The Priest of the War.
WHen the Israelites were Engaged in a WAR, they made choice of a Priest among them, to Serve some of their greatest Occasions in it, and after a Sacred Unction bestow'd upon him, we are told by Maimonides, he was call'd Mashuach Milchamah, that is to say, Unctus Belli; which was as much as to say, The Priest of the War.
To bring unto a People profitable Advices & Reflections upon a WAR, wherein they are Engaged, and sound the Silver Trumpet, of the Gospel, with agreeable Notes unto them in it, is to do in some sort, the Office of the Mashuach Milchamah ▪ and this Office the Ensuing Discourse presumes to do, with Endeavours that the Voice of Heaven by the Trumpet of our late War, may he heard giving a certain Sound, in these Echo's of it.
The History of a long War, hath, with all possible care of Truth, been given you. The Author Earnestly prays, that if the least material Mistake have happened in the History, He may be Advised, & It may be corrected. The Noise that may be made, by a few Sordid People, here & there, in a Room Tophetized with Smoke, and Rum, and Spittle, and Malice, and Lies, crying out concerning the most Conscientious Essays, to preserve Memorable Truths, They are a parcel of Lies! He values not. But he now tenders to the Acceptance of the more Civilized Readers, an Improvement of Memorable Truths, which it was His Duty to make, & it will be Theirs to mind.
The History of a long War, hath, with all possible care of Truth, been given you. The Author Earnestly prayes, that if the least material Mistake have happened in the History, He may be Advised, & It may be corrected. The Noise that may be made, by a few Sordid People, here & there, in a Room Tophetized with Smoke, and Rhum, and Spittle, and Malice, and Lyes, crying out concerning the most Conscientious Essayes, to preserve Memorable Truths, They are a parcel of Lies! He values not. But he now tenders to the Acceptance of the more Civilized Readers, an Improvement of Memorable Truths, which it was His Duty to make, & it will be Theirs to mind.
