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A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A…A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A…
A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this country. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this countrey. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
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for our Persecutors were not willing that we should hold communion together. I did however speak to him; but very seldom; for he is a man whom God has ⟨p. 15⟩afflicted to the Loss of common sense. They came to understand that I spake to him, which obliged my Overseers to change my place; but I abode but a little while in this Second Lodging; for they perceived that I Sang also, and commanded me many times, to be silent, on pain of being put into the Dungeon; but I could not obey them. However I Sang very low; but the Citadel being countermined, and a great Cistern in the middle of the Armoury, the least noise that can be made is heard every where in the Officers Chambers. They then caused me to be put into the Dungeon; but I abode there only thirty five days; for the great Provost came to the Citadel, with two Guards to fetch me and the fore-mentioned poor afflicted person, and brought us hither.
for our Persecutors were not willing that we should hold communion together. I did however speak to him; but very seldom; for he is a man whom God has ⟨p. 15⟩afflicted to the Loss of common sense. They came to understand that I spake to him, which obliged my Overseers to change my place; but I abode but a little while in this Second Lodging; for they perceived that I Sang also, and commanded me many times, to be silent, on pain of being put into the Dungeon; but I could not obey them. However I Sang very low; but the Cittadelle being countermined, and a great Cistern in the middle of the Armoury, the least noise that can be made is heard every where in the Officers Chambers. They then caused me to be put into the Dungeon; but I abode there only thirty five days; for the great Provost came to the Cittadelle, with two Guards to fetch me and the fore-mentioned poor afflicted person, and brought us hither.
It is meet that I excite you to bless God with me, my Dear Heart: for in the midst of all my troubles the Eternal Exercises an admirable care about all that concerns me. You may understand that when I was Aboard the Galley, I employed my self in Copying out some good Sermons, which my Friends gave me. I had about twenty of them, one half whereof I left in an house Ashore, that if they came to search me I might not lose them all at once. In going into the Citadel, they took from me seven of the Sermons, with an English Bible, and an Exposition of the Fifty First Psalm in English,