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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.
And here, first, I say nothing of that Amazing Time, when the Evil Angels in a preternatural and in an unparalleled manner being Let Loose ⟨p. 228⟩among us; God cast upon us the Fierceness of His Anger, & Wrath and Indignation and Trouble. It was the Threatening of God against a people, which He had called His Children; in Deut. 32.23, 24. I will Heap Mischiefs upon them, I will Spend my Arrows upon them, they shall be Devoured with a Bitter Destruction; What was the Bitter Destruction thus Threatened unto an Apostatizing People? I remember, the famous Jew Onkelos renders it, They shall be vexed with Evil Spirits; and indeed, that Sense well agrees with what follows, I will send upon them the poison of the Serpents of the Dust. Sirs, For our Apostasy (which is the very Sin of the Evil Spirits!) the God of Heaven, a while ago turned in the Armies of Hell upon us; and in that matchless Dispensation of God, we underwent a Bitter Destruction, from the poison of the Serpents of the Dust.
And here, first, I say nothing of that Amazing Time, when the Evil Angels in a praeternatural and in an unparallel'd manner being Let Loose ⟨p. 228⟩among us; God cast upon us the Fierceness of His Anger, & Wrath and Indignation and Trouble. It was the Threatning of God against a people, which He had call'd His Children; in Deut. 32.23, 24. I will Heap Mischiefs upon them, I will Spend my Arrows upon them, they shall be Devoured with a Bitter Destruction; What was the Bitter Destruction thus Threatned unto an Apostatizing People? I remember, the famous Jew Onkelos renders it, They shall be vexed with Evil Spirits; and indeed, that Sense well agrees with what follows, I will send upon them the poison of the Serpents of the Dust. Syrs, For our Apostasy (which is the very Sin of the Evil Spirits!) the God of Heaven, a while ago turned in the Armies of Hell upon us; and in that matchless Dispensation of God, we underwent a Bitter Destruction, from the poison of the Serpents of the Dust.