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

Upon the whole; when a Dead man was thrown into the Grave of Elisha, a Touch from the Bones of the Prophet in the Grave Raised him from the Dead. I am desiring, that Religion may be Revived out of the Death which has too much Enfeebled it among us▪ Behold, Sirs, I have now cast you into the Graves of our Dead Friends; It may be, by wisely observing of them, and the things that have befallen them, we may be somewhat Raised out of our Deadly Security. Let our Observation of these things, give some Life to the practice of Religion among us.

Upon the whole; when a Dead man was thrown into the Grave of Elisha, a Touch from the Bones of the Prophet in the Grave Rais'd him from the Dead. I am desiring, that Religion may be Revived out of the Death which has too much Enfeebled it among us▪ Behold, Syrs, I have now cast you into the Graves of our Dead Friends; It may be, by wisely observing of them, and the things that have befallen them, we may be somewhat Raised out of our Deadly Security. Let our Observation of these things, give some Life to the practice of Religion among us.

V. In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is Wise, may Observe, those Tragical Things undergone by many in Captivity, that are full of Admonition unto us, that have never felt the Tragedies of such a Captivity. Several Hundreds of our Neighbours, first and last, have been carried into Captivity, by the most Beastly and Bloody things that ever wore the Shape of men, in the World. New-England makes that moan, in Lam. 1.18. Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my Sorrow; my Virgins and my Young men are gone into Captivity. But Oh! the prodigious, and stupendous Things, that they have undergone in this Captivity! What weary Days and Nights have rolled over the miserable Captives, while they have not had a ⟨p. 224⟩Bit of Meat allowed 'em, Except what a Dog would hardly meddle with! While they have sometimes been pinched with the Bitter Frost, without Rags to cover their Nakedness, and sometimes been Parched with the Burning Heat, without any Cordial or Shelter to Refresh them: While they have seen their nearest Relations torn in pieces alive before their Eyes, and yet those Eyes afraid of dropping a Tear at the mournful Sight: Yea, while they have every Hour, looked when they should be themselves Roasted alive to make a Feast, and a Sport for the horrid Cannibals! Need I tell you, That those Devils Incarnate, have Tied their Captives unto Trees, and first cutting off their Ears, have made them to Eat their own Ears, and then have broiled their whole Bodies, with slow Fires, dancing the mean while about them, and cutting out Collops of their Flesh, till with lingering Tortures they have Martyred them to Death! Such Things have been done, by the Inhumane Salvages upon our Captives, that it is a sort of Inhumanity barely to mention them. Now, shall we be Wise, to Observe these things? The Observation must be made, with that Admonition, in