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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.
Again, There have been abundance of Poor men, who have been by this War plunged still into deeper Poverty: They have gone without a Bit of Bread, for many days together. ⟨p. 220⟩The Straits, the Wants, the Cares of Widows, and Orphans, or of those that have had many mouths to Feed, especially in our Exposed Frontiers; None can Express them, None can Conceive them, but They, (Nor They!) who did Endure them all. Poor men, If you are wise, (which the Poor may be!) You will Observe these things, and upon the Observation, say, Well, I had need make sure that my Soul may not be Starved by wanting the Bread of Life, and that my Soul may not be Naked without the Garments of Righteousness; How dolefully am I circumstanced, if I go down from one Hell unto another at the Last!
Again, There have been abundance of Poor men, who have been by this War plunged still into deeper Poverty: They have gone without a Bit of Bread, for many dayes together. ⟨p. 220⟩The Straits, the Wants, the Cares of Widows, and Orphans, or of those that have had many mouths to Feed, especially in our Exposed Frontiers; None can Express them, None can Conceive them, but They, (Nor They!) who did Endure them all. Poor men, If you are wise, (which the Poor may be!) You will Observe these things, and upon the Observation, say, Well, I had need make sure that my Soul may not be Starved by wanting the Bread of Life, and that my Soul may not be Naked without the Garments of Righteousness; How dolefully am I circumstanced, if I go down from one Hell unto another at the Last!
Once more; How many Women have been made a prey to those Brutish men, that are Skilful to Destroy? How many a Fearful Thing has been suffered by the Fearful Sex, from those men, that one would Fear as Devils rather than men? Let the Daughters of our Zion think with themselves, what it would be, for fierce Indians to break into their Houses, and brain their Husbands and their Children before their Eyes, and Lead them away a Long Journey into the Woods; and if they began to fail and faint in the Journey, then for a Tawny Salvage to come with Hell fire in his Eyes, and cut 'em down with his Hatchet; or, if they could miraculously hold out, then for some Filthy and ugly Squaw's to become their insolent Mistresses, and insolently