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

Don't venture to form Towns without the Gospel in them any more. If the Lamentable Experience which you have ⟨p. 208⟩more than once had, of a Blast from Heaven upon Enterprises to Live without the Gospel of the Son of God, will not inspire you with more of Wisdom for the future, I will foretell your Fate, in those awful words, Psal. 28.5. Because they regard not the Works of the Lord, nor the Operation of His Hands, He shall destroy them, and not Build them up. Yea, But let all New-England at the same Time Learn, what the Welfare or the Ruin, of all, will Turn upon. The whole World was made for our Lord-Messiah, and the Curse of God will more or less plague the World, according to the Respects, which that Second Adam, our Lord-Messiah finds in it. But New-England, is by a more Eminent Profession that Immanuels Land. Let the Interests of the Christian Religion in Reformed Churches, be pursued and preserved among us; Then, All will go well! Our Acknowledgement of our Lord JESUS CHRIST in CHURCHES, that shall be so ordered, as to Represent Him, and His Kingdom, unto the World; This will be our Glory; and this Glory will be our Defence; or, as 'tis promised, in Isa. 4.5. Upon all the Glory shall be a Defence. But if once the Spirit of this World, Eat out the Spirit and Power of Religion, and the Order of our Churches, and mens value for a Room in the Churches, be lost, Then, write, Ichabod, upon all our Glory; and let us expect, that our ⟨p. 209⟩Holy Lord will Spue us out of His Mouth.

Don't venture to form Towns without the Gospel in them any more. If the Lamentable Experience which you have ⟨p. 208⟩more than once had, of a Blast from Heaven upon Enterprizes to Live without the Gospel of the Son of God, will not inspire you with more of Wisdom for the future, I will foretel your Fate, in those awful words, Psal. 28.5. Because they regard not the Works of the Lord, nor the Operation of His Hands, He shall destroy them, and not Build them up. Yea, But let all New-England at the same Time Learn, what the Welfare or the Ruine, of all, will Turn upon. The whole World was made for our Lord-Messiah, and the Curse of God will more or less plague the World, according to the Respects, which that Second Adam, our Lord-Messiah finds in it. But New-England, is by a more Eminent Profession that Immanuels Land. Let the Interests of the Christian Religion in Reformed Churches, be pursued and preserved among us; Then, All will go well! Our Acknowledgment of our Lord JESUS CHRIST in CHURCHES, that shall be so ordered, as to Represent Him, and His Kingdom, unto the World; This will be our Glory; and this Glory will be our Defence; or, as 'tis promised, in