Duodecennium luctuosum. The history of a long war with Indian salvages, and their directors…

BUT if the Mighty Voice of God may be apprehended as most Cogently, and most Pungently directed unto them that have been the Greatest Sufferers, 'tis to be hoped our dear Brethren in the Frontiers, will be most Suitably Affected with it. O our Brethren, Who are Posted in the Valley of Achor; who have Gotten and Eaten every Grain of your Bread, with the Peril of your Lives from the Sword of the Wilderness; who have had your Lives always as it were in your Hands, ready to be offered up, and been Shut up in very Uneasy Circumstances: To you there is this Mighty Voice of God your Saviour; Heaven requires it of you, to be the best People upon Earth! O Examine whether you are so; and Examine how you shall Order your Behaviours, and your Families, that you may be so.

BUT if the Mighty Voice of God may be apprehended as most Cogently, and most Pungently directed unto them that have been the Greatest Sufferers, 'tis to be hoped our dear Brethren in the Frontiers, will be most Suitably Affected with it. O our Brethren, Who are Posted in the Valley of Achor; who have Gotten and Eaten every Grain of your Bread, with the Peril of your Lives from the Sword of the Wilderness; who have had your Lives alwayes as it were in your Hands, ready to be offered up, and been Shut up in very Uneasy Circumstances: To you there is this Mighty Voice of God your Saviour; Heaven requires it of you, to be the best People upon Earth! O Examine whether you are so; and Examine how you shall Order your Behaviours, and your Families, that you may be so.

OUR Mariners and our Fishermen, distinguished with so many Destructions upon them, ought certainly to consider their Peculiar Obligations to have their Ears Listening to the Voice of GOD. He that hath Ears to hear, Let him hear, What GOD now Speaks unto him.

I will go on, and invite you to Consider, in the Second Place, Whether you cannot hear a Voice of the Glorious GOD, even a Mighty Voice, in the Perfidy of the Enemy; Yea, and in the Remarkable Revenges, the Astonishing Revenges, of the HOLY ONE upon that Perfidy. It is well known, that on the Twentieth of June, Twelve Years ago, the Sagamores of the East, with their Dependents, made their Submissions to the Crown of England, and Renewed their Promises of Living in all Good Peace with the English Subjects thereof, and there were Two Pillars of Stone Erected, with the Hieroglyphic Name of, The Two Brothers, for the Perpetual Memory of the Thing. And yet, it is now known, That at that very Time, the Perfidious Intentions of those Monsters were such, that it was a most Wonderful Appearance of the Divine Providence, which Preserved His Excellency our Governor, and the Principal Gentlemen of his Two Provinces, then attending upon him, from an Hellish Contrivance of theirs to have Seized on their Persons: We are this Day blessing our GOD, with them, as well as for them, in a Doxology of Antiquity; Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a Prey to their Teeth! But, alas, We can tell who did quickly become the Prey to these Dragons in the Wilderness Prepare to hear a Tragedy, which our Poor Neighbours did not prepare to feel. On the Tenth of