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Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…
Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Who expired, August 23. 1723. : [One line from II Kings]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724
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ARTICLE XVI. What Occurred in the Approaching and Finishing of the Indian War.
ARTICLE XVI. What Occur'd in the Approaching and Finishing of the Indian War.
ON the Entrance of the Year 1674. Observing the Sins of the Times, and therewith Discerning the Signs of the Times, he had a sad and strong Impression on his mind, and a Spirit that could not rest until he had Publicly Declared it, That a Time of grievous Trouble was quickly coming on the Country; yea, that a Sword should quickly be drawn, which would bring a dark and dismal Time upon it. Under this Impression, he delivered on a Day of Prayer kept in his own Congregation, What the Learned Mr. Oaks in his Preface to it, calls A solid, Succinct, Comprehensive Discourse, on Ezek. VII. 7. The Day of Trouble is near; Which was by the Ordering of the Divine Providence immediately Published and Scattered through a Country, Warned thus to flee from the Wrath to come. The Country was then in all possible Tranquillity and Security. But the Next Year, was the most Bloody one that ever New England saw; from the Indians, whom King Philip Seduced into a War, that filled the Land from one end unto the other with Desolations.
ON the Entrance of the Year 1674. Observing the Sins of the Times, and therewith Discerning the Signs of the Times, he had a sad and strong Impression on his mind, and a Spirit that could not rest until he had Publickly Declared it, That a Time of grievous Trouble was quickly coming on the Country; yea, that a Sword should quickly be drawn, which would bring a dark and dismal Time upon it. Under this Impression, he delivered on a Day of Prayer kept in his own Congregation, What the Learned Mr. Oaks in his Praeface to it, calls A solid, Succinct, Comprehensive Discourse, on Ezek. VII. 7. The Day of Trouble is near; Which was by the Ordering of the Divine Providence immediately Published and Scattered through a Country, Warned thus to flee from the Wrath to come. The Country was then in all possible Tranquillity and Security. But the Next Year, was the most Bloody one that ever NewEngland saw; from the Indians, whom King Philip Seduced into a War, that fill'd the Land from one end unto the other with Desolations.