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

It will be readily Acknowledged, that here was enough done, to render the Indians Inexcusable, for not coming in, upon the Proclamation, which Sir Edmond Andros, then Governor of New-England, immediately Emitted thereupon, requiring them, to Surrender the Murderers, now among them. A Spaniard, that was a Soldier, would say, That if we have a Good Cause, the smell of Gunpowder in the Field is as sweet as the incense at the Altar. Let the Reader judge after these things, what scent there was in the Gunpowder spent for Nine or Ten years together in our War with the Indian Salvages.

It will be readily Acknowledged, that here was enough done, to render the Indians Inexcusable, for not coming in, upon the Proclamation, which Sir Edmond Andros, then Governour of New-England, immediately Emitted thereupon, requiring them, to Surrender the Murderers, now among them. A Spaniard, that was a Souldier, would say, That if we have a Good Cause, the smell of Gunpowder in the Field is as sweet as the •ncense at the Altar. Let the Reader judge after these things, what scent there was in the Gunpowder spent for Nine or Ten years together in our War with the Indian Salvages.

Now, that while we are upon this Head, we ⟨p. 20⟩may at once dispatch it, I will unto these Two Accounts, add certain passages of one more; which was published in September 1689.

Such were the Obscure Measures taken at that Time of Day, that the Rise of this War, hath been as dark as that of the River Nilus; only the Generality of Thinking People through the Country, can Remember When, and Why, every one did foretell, A War. If any Wild English (for there are such as well as of another Nation,) did then, Begin to Provoke and Affront the Indians, yet those Indians had a fairer way to come by Right, than that of Blood shed; nothing worthy of, or calling for, any Such Revenge was done unto them. The most Injured of them all, (if there were any Such) were afterwards dismissed by the English, with Favours, that were then Admirable even to Our selves; and These too, instead of Surrendering the Persons, did increase the Numbers, of the Murderers But upon the REVOLUTION of the Government [April 1689.] the State of the War, became wholly New: and we are more arrived unto Righteousness as the Light, and Justice as the Noon day. A great Sachem of the East, we the immediately Applied ou selves unto, and with no small Expenses to our selves we Engaged Him, to Employ his Interest for a Good Understanding between us, & the party of Indians then in Hostility against us This was the Likely,