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Duodecennium luctuosum. The history of a long war with Indian salvages, and their directors…
Duodecennium luctuosum. The history of a long war with Indian salvages, and their directors and abettors; from the year, 1702. To the year, 1714. Comprised in a short essay, to declare the voice of the glorious God, in the various occurrences of that war, which have been thought matters of more special observation. : A recapitulation made in the audience, of his Excellency the governor, and the General Assembly of the Massachusett province; at Boston, 30. d. VII. m. 1714. : [Two lines from Livy]Duodecennium luctuosum. The history of a long war with Indian salvages, and their directors and abettors; from the year, 1702. To the year, 1714. Comprised in a short essay, to declare the voice of the glorious God, in the various occurrences of that war, which have been thought matters of more special observation. : A recapitulation made in the audience, of his Excellency the governour, and the General Assembly of the Massachusett province; at Boston, 30. d. VII. m. 1714. : [Two lines from Livy]
Boston: printed by B. Green. Sold by Samuel Gerrish, 1714
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.
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 ⟨p. 10⟩the following August, these Wretches under the Gallic and Satanic Instigation, Put forth their Hands against such as were at Peace with them, and broke their Covenant. While our People were in the Profound Sleep, of a Peace just now established, with all the Solemnity imaginable, never Dreaming that it could be Possible for any thing in the Shape of Men, — to do what was going to be done;— So much was France forgotten! — Behold, Now these Treacherous Infidels, [Their being French Christians, will not hinder me from calling them so!] I say, these Infidels went up against the Land of Unwalled Villages. In Scattered Parcels, they fell, at Once on Seven Villages; They Murdered and Captived, More than One Hundred and Seventy of our People. And on some of them, especially some Women with Child, they Perpetrated Barbarities, which humane Ears can do no other than tingle at. God Miraculously Saved many Exposed Places, from these first Efforts of Indian Fury!