The History of a LONG WAR, Briefly Recited & Improved.

The History of a LONG WAR, Briefly Recited & Improved.

At BOSTON, 30. d. VII. m. 1714.

IT is not so much for a Close Discourse upon the TEXT, as for a Vindication of, and an Introduction to, an UNCOMMON ACTION, Which I have thought I may have a Sufficient Commission this Day to Proceed upon; that I shall now begin my Discourse, with reading to you, what is Written, in

PSAL. LXVIII. 33. Lo, He doth send forth His Voice, and that a Mighty Voice.

TIS not my Purpose to make any Remarks on the Psalm, which affords this Text unto us, and which is as Jerous Long Since Observed, Refertus Mysterijs, Full of Mysteries; I may add, — and Full of Prophecies.

Every One that hears it Read, will Presently form this Doctrine upon it,

There is a Voice of GOD unto the Children of Men; Yea, a MIGHTY VOICE: And therefore a Voice Mightily to be hearkened to.

There is a Voice of GOD unto the Children of Men; Yea, a MIGHTY VOICE: And therefore a Voice Mightily to be hearken'd to.

THE Entertainment, I Suppose, would not have been Unprofitable, if I should have Enquired, What is the Voice of GOD, and what is it that the Mighty Voice of our GOD Speaks unto us? You are all aware, That in the Gospel which is the Word of GOD, we have the Mighty Voice of God, Speaking to us, in the Plainnest Manner that can be. Our JESUS who Spake as never Man Spake, did never Speak, in the Days of His Flesh among us, but, GOD Uttered His Voice, in the most familiar Way that can be imagined. But there is also the Voice of GOD in all the Oracles of the Gospel; GOD inspired the Writers of these Oracles, and there is a Mighty Voice of GOD in the Inspiration. Where the Gospel comes, The Great Trumpet is blown, and there is a Mighty Voice of GOD, in the Joyful Sound of that Jubilee. Sirs, It would be Well, if you would be Prevailed upon, When you Take up the Bible, and Open it, then to think, The Mighty Voice of GOD is now Speaking to me; And when Qualified Preachers Open the Bible unto you, then again to think, The Mighty Voice of GOD, is what I must now give earnest Heed unto. Methinks, You should be also aware, That in the Dictates of our Conscience we have the Mighty Voice of GOD unto us. The Principle in Man, which acts in a Way of Judging on him, as Under the Judgment of GOD; tho' the Dictates of that Principle, are a Sort of Whispers, yet there are also Thunders in them: It cries with a Loud Voice, as when a Lion roars! Oh! that Men were more fearful of ⟨p. 3⟩Rebelling against the Light, and against the Voice of a Principle, which, O rash Man, if thou put continual Sleights upon, will One Day Tear thee to Pieces, and there shall be none to deliver thee. Yea, I will say unto you, Sound Reason is always the Voice of GOD. When ever any Maxim, or Demand of Reason is Offered unto us, We have GOD Speaking unto us. My Brethren, If you will Show your selves Men, and Hearken to Reason, You may fill your Lives with Acts of Obedience unto GOD. Whatever you see to be Reason, Conform to it, from this Consideration, Tis what GOD Calls me to!

THE Entertainment, I Suppose, would not have been Unprofitable, if I should have Enquired, What is the Voice of GOD, and what is it that the Mighty Voice of our GOD Speaks unto us? You are all aware, That in the Gospel which is the Word of GOD, we have the Mighty Voice of God, Speaking to us, in the Plainnest Manner that can be. Our JESUS who Spake as never Man Spake, did never Speak, in the Dayes of His Flesh among us, but, GOD Uttered His Voice, in the most familiar Way that can be imagined. But there is also the Voice of GOD in all the Oracles of the Gospel; GOD inspired the Writers of these Oracles, and there is a Mighty Voice of GOD in the Inspiration. Where the Gospel comes, The Great Trumpet is blown, and there is a Mighty Voice of GOD, in the Joyful Sound of that Jubilee. Sirs, It would be Well, if you would be Prevailed upon, When you Take up the Bible, and Open it, then to think, The Mighty Voice of GOD is now Speaking to me; And when Qualified Preachers Open the Bible unto you, then again to think, The Mighty Voice of GOD, is what I must now give earnest Heed unto. Methinks, You should be also aware, That in the Dictates of our Conscience we have the Mighty Voice of GOD unto us. The Principle in Man, which acts in a Way of Judging on him, as Under the Judgment of GOD; tho' the Dictates of that Principle, are a Sort of Whispers, yet there are also Thunders in them: It cryes with a Loud Voice, as when a Lion roars! Oh! that Men were more fearful of

BUT then, You must be as much aware of this; That there is a Mighty Voice of GOD, in all the Works of His Hands. All His Dispensations are Speaking Dispensations. The Works of Creation; There is no Speech nor Language, Where their Voice is not heard. All the Creatures of GOD are so many Teachers to us. Ask them now, and they shall teach thee; Yea, the Mutest of them shall declare unto thee. The Works of Providence too; Stand still, and Consider these Wondrous Works of God; That is, To Hear what they Speak unto us. The General Providence of GOD, which Preserves and Governs the World, has a Voice to all the World; The Wheels of it make a Noise in their Motions. But so too has the Special Providence. There is a Voice of GOD unto us, in what we see befalling of Others. The Rewarding of the Righteous, and the Punishing of the Wicked, has always a Voice in it, unto all the Spectators of it. But — much more in what we feel befalling Our selves. Do we meet with Agreeable Things? I Speak unto thee in thy Prosperity, saith the Lord. — Oh! but what follows? — Do we meet with Deplorable Things? Now, Hear ⟨p. 4⟩the Rod; the Voice of the Lord Cries unto the Sufferer.

BUT then, You must be as much aware of this; That there is a Mighty Voice of GOD, in all the Works of His Hands. All His Dispensations are Speaking Dispensations. The Works of Creation; There is no Speech nor Language, Where their Voice is not heard. All the Creatures of GOD are so many Teachers to us. Ask them now, and they shall teach thee; Yea, the Mutest of them shall declare unto thee. The Works of Providence too; Stand still, and Consider these Wondrous Works of God; That is, To Hear what they Speak unto us. The General Providence of GOD, which Preserves and Governs the World, has a Voice to all the World; The Wheels of it make a Noise in their Motions. But so too has the Special Providence. There is a Voice of GOD unto us, in what we see befalling of Others. The Rewarding of the Righteous, and the Punishing of the Wicked, has alwayes a Voice in it, unto all the Spectators of it. But — much more in what we feel befalling Our selves. Do we meet with Agreeable Things? I Speak unto thee in thy Prosperity, saith the Lord. — Oh! but what follows? — Do we meet with Deplorable Things? Now, Hear ⟨p. 4⟩the Rod; the Voice of the Lord Cryes unto the Sufferer.

THE Sum of the Voice, even the Mighty Voice, You cannot but be aware, and apprised of it. It is that of the Angel with the Everlasting Gospel, Saying with a Loud Voice, Fear GOD, and give Glory to HIM. 'Tis, O Acknowledge the Glorious GOD in all Your Ways; Make it the Chief End of your Lives, to Render and Procure, continual Acknowledgements of His Glories. Place your Blessedness, in the Enjoyment of Him. Embrace the Lovely JESUS in all His Offices, as the Only Saviour, to bring you unto that Blessedness. Be afraid of all Sin against the Holy Lord. Be Weaned from a World, wherein Satisfaction is to be despaired of •e the Wiser and the Better for all that befalls you; and let GOD have Revenues to His Kingdom, out of all that He does for you, or on you. Walk with GOD, and be Holy in all manner of Conversation.

THE Sum of the Voice, even the Mighty Voice, You cannot but be aware, and apprised of it. It is that of the Angel with the Everlasting Gospel, Saying with a Loud Voice, Fear GOD, and give Glory to HIM. 'Tis, O Acknowledge the Glorious GOD in all Your Wayes; Make it the Chief End of your Lives, to Render and Procure, continual Acknowledgments of His Glories. Place your Blessedness, in the Enjoyment of Him. Embrace the Lovely JESUS in all His Offices, as the Only Saviour, to bring you unto that Blessedness. Be afraid of all Sin against the Holy Lord. Be Weaned from a World, wherein Satisfaction is to be despaired of •e the Wiser and the Better for all that befalls you; and let GOD have Revenues to His Kingdom, out of all that He does for you, or on you. Walk with GOD, and be Holy in all manner of Conversation.

THIS the Voice. No Doubt, I might have gone on Profitably, to have told you, How and Why the Mighty Voice of GOD is Mightily to be hearkened to? To have told you, That to Study the Mind of God in His Voice, and to be, and to do what is therein called for, is to Hearken to it. And then, to have told you, that since 'tis the Mighty Voice of GOD, there need no other Argument for its being Mightily Hearkened to.

THIS the Voice. No Doubt, I might have gone on Profitably, to have told you, How and Why the Mighty Voice of GOD is Mightily to be hearkened to? To have told you, That to Study the Mind of God in His Voice, and to be, and to do what is therein called for, is to Hearken to it. And then, to have told you, that since 'tis the Mighty Voice of GOD, there need no other Argument for its being Mightily Hearken'd to.

— BUT it is another Entertainment, That I have under the Impressions of GOD, and with His Assistances, Prepared for you.

— BUT it is another Entertainment, That I have under the Impressions of GOD, and with His Assistences, Prepared for you.

¶ THE Design which I Propose this Day to Prosecute, is, That the Voice of the Glorious GOD, even His Mighty Voice, in the Later Dispensations of His Providence towards this Land, may be Regarded, be Understood, be Complied withal.

WHEN the former Long War, which our Treacherous and Barbarous Enemies made upon us, was finished, there was an Essay to make some Improvement of the Observable Things that had occurred in it: An Essay, which God and His People approved of.

ANOTHER Long War is now finished; A New Peace hath been struck up, in our Borders: And it is Time to Consider the Voice of our God unto us, in the Observable Things that have therein Passed over us. For, O my Dear People, While thy God has been Striking of thee, He has been also Speaking to thee; And it is of the Last Consequence, that His Voice be Wisely hearkened to; A Total Inadvertency to the Voice, will have a Consequence which we may justly tremble at; — If to be Punished yet Ten times for our Iniquities, or with more than Ten Years of Confusions repeared upon us, be a thing to be trembled at.

IT is an Holy Undertaking; may it be a very Useful One!

FROM such an Holy Undertaking, we must not be discouraged, by the Derision of a few Foolish, and Flashy, and Profane Creatures, (no more to be valued than the Dirt of a Street) who Scoff at all Sermons of an Historical Importance; that is to say. At such Sermons as the Prophets of God have all over the Bible Exemplified unto us; Creatures below the ⟨p. 6⟩Notice of One, who would Go Well, and in Holy and Comely Going would never turn away for any. No, Sirs; Were One of the bright Angels detached and dispatched from the Multitude of the Heavenly Host unto us, most certainly he would most cheerfully take up a Trumpet of God, and embrace the Office and the Honour of Sounding the Trumpet, that should render the Voice of the Glorious LORD very Plain unto His People, and awaken them to Entertain that Mighty Voice with a due Attention and Obedience.

FROM such an Holy Undertaking, we must not be discouraged, by the Derision of a few Foolish, and Flashy, and Prophane Creatures, (no more to be valued than the Dirt of a Street) who Scoff at all Sermons of an Historical Importance; that is to say. At such Sermons as the Prophets of God have all over the Bible Exemplified unto us; Creatures below the ⟨p. 6⟩Notice of One, who would Go Well, and in Holy and Comely Going would never turn away for any. No, Sirs; Were One of the bright Angels detach'd and dispatch'd from the Multitude of the Heavenly Host unto us, most certainly he would most cheerfully take up a Trumpet of God, and embrace the Office and the Honour of Sounding the Trumpet, that should render the Voice of the Glorious LORD very Plain unto His People, and awaken them to Entertain that Mighty Voice with a due Attention and Obedience.

WHEREFORE, Having this Opportunity, of Seeing the Elders and the Judges of our Israel, here assembled, I call upon you, Stand Still, that I may Reason with you before the Lord, Concerning the Righteous Acts which He hath done among you, and His Mighty Voice in those Acts, which He Expects you to take a Reasonable and a Religious Notice of.

GOD forbid, That a People of our Profession and Original, should be so abandoned by the Spirit of Piety, as to be Insensible, that there is a Voice of the Glorious GOD unto us, even a Mighty Voice, in the Things which He has dispensed unto us, during our Long War, with the Eastern Salvages, and the bloody Papists that have inspired them and abetted them. Verily, Such an Insensibility would but bring us within the reach of that flaming Thunderbolt; Psal. XXVIII. 5. Because they regard not the Works of the Lord, nor the Operation of His Hands, He shall destroy them, and not build them up. I again say, God forbid!

BUT then, the First Thing, Whereto your Attention is demanded, is; That the Voice of the Glorious GOD, even His Mighty Voice, in the Long War ⟨p. 7⟩that has been Wasting of us, is what All People, have been addressed with; what All Persons have been concerned in. The History of this Duodecennium Luctuosum, would consist either of too Minute Actions, or be sometimes rather an History of Inaction, and sometimes, especially where the chief Actors were Strangers to us, the Truth of the Matter cannot well be come at, if it were to be retailed in all its Particularities. You shall have it all in a Summary Way, and in Expressive Terms provided as long ago, as, 2 Chron. XV. 5, 6. In those times, there was no Peace, to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great Vexations were upon all the Inhabitants of the Countries; For God did Vex them with all Adversity. And certainly, the Voice of God has been Extended unto All the Inhabitants; who have All been Sharers in the Great Vexations of this Long Adversity. Truly, We have All been Sufferers. How many have Suffered in their Persons? Not a few, have Endured Hardships as Good Soldiers in the Public Service. How many have Suffered, in what has befallen the Relatives for which they have had a Tenderness? The frequent Pressea have often, often, filled our Houses with Anguish. The Heavy Taxes have been such, that every One has felt the Burden: Perhaps, those few that •a•d None, did feel as much as any, of the Burden. And then, Tis to be hoped, no Man could be so Labumane, but that he had a Sympathy with Other Sufferers; The Advice of all Evil Occurrents afflicted him. Surely, we have All been Sinners too! And this, no doubt, this is the Voice of our Glorious GOD unto us All. Hear this All ye People, Every One of you! Let every One of you All now •earch and Try his Ways, and turn unto the Lord. Sirs, We have ALL of us by our Various Miscarriages Contributed unto ⟨p. 8⟩the Controversy, which a Just GOD has been managing with us, in this Long Day of our Calamity. It was Once the Complaint of Heaven; Jer. VIII. 6. I hearkened and heard, but they Spake not aright; No Men repented him of his Wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Oh! May it not be heard over us! The Mighty Voice of our God unto us, is;

Let every Man Enquire, What Errors of his Own have thrown Oil into the Flame of that Anger that has been such a Devouring Fire upon you. And, Let every Man Enquire, What he shall do, that tho' God has been Angry, His Anger may be turned away, and His People may be Comforted.

Let every Man Enquire, What Errors of his Own have thrown Oyl into the Flame of that Anger that has been such a Devouring Fire upon you. And, Let every Man Enquire, What he shall do, that tho' God has been Angry, His Anger may be turned away, and His People may be Comforted.

BE SURE, We are deaf to Thunder, if we do not hear this Voice of our God unto us all, in what we have all met withal: Oh! Take off your Hearts from a World, which I have so many ways Embittered unto you all. Prefer, Pursue, Expect a Portion in a better World.

BESURE, We are deaf to Thunder, if we do not hear this Voice of our God unto us all, in what we have all met withal: Oh! Take off your Hearts from a World, which I have so many wayes Embittered unto you all. Prefer, Pursue, Expect a Portion in a better World.

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 ⟨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!

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 Renew'd their Promises of Living in all Good Peace with the English Subjects thereof, and there were Two Pillars of Stone Erected, with the Hieroglyphick 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 Governour, and the Principal Gentlemen of his Two Provinces, then attending upon him, from an Hellish Contrivance of theirs to have Siezed 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

BUT, O NEW-ENGLAND, Wilt thou hear the Voice of thy Glorious GOD unto thee, in this dismal Tragedy? His Voice, even His Mighty Voice unto thee, is; Thou hast Sinned against my Covenant. A Sword is thus brought upon thee to avenge the Quarrel of my Covenant. The Violations of my Covenant in the Midst of thee must be Repented of!

I will take this Occasion to bear yet a more Particular Testimony. New-England hears ill among Strangers, for the Crime of, Promise-breaking. The Promises of many Men, they say, are Little to be relied upon. It is reported, that many Pretenders to Religion, are not, Men of their Word. I know not ⟨p. 11⟩what their Pretences are; Be they what they will, the Men must not be owned for the True Citizens of Zion. But, Lo, in the Punishment the Country undergoes, from the most Infamous Promise-breakers, there is this Mighty Voice of God unto us, O my People, Promise-breakers must not be found among you: Be Children that will not Lie; So I will be your Saviour.

I will take this Occasion to bear yet a more Particular Testimony. New-England hears ill among Strangers, for the Crime of, Promise-breaking. The Promises of many Men, they say, are Little to be relied upon. It is reported, that many Pretenders to Religion, are not, Men of their Word. I know not ⟨p. 11⟩what their Pretences are; Be they what they will, the Men must not be own'd for the True Citizens of Zion. But, Lo, in the Punishment the Country undergoes, from the most Infamous Promise-breakers, there is this Mighty Voice of God unto us, O my People, Promise-breakers must not be found among you: Be Children that will not Ly; So I will be your Saviour.

WELL, but what Effect have the Salvages found of their Perfidy? A Vengeance of God has followed them; A Vengeance, that must be a Stay, and a Warning to all the World.

WELL, but what Effect have the Salvages found of their Persidy? A Vengeance of God has follow'd them; A Vengeance, that must be a Stay, and a Warning to all the World.

HOW Many of them, have been Sacrificed by O• Sword, it is not Easy for us to say. They never Assault, but when they can Surprise. They have Quick Retreats to Thickets and Mountains that are to us inaccessible; The Europeans, who Wonder that all these Colonies don't Presently Swallow them up, have no Idea of them. When also any of them fall in Battle, the Survivors use more than ordinary Care to Cover them. However, I have been able to reckon many more than an Hundred of these Cursed Salvages, which have been known to be Killed by Our Hands. But, Thy Hand. O Lord, has found […] thine Enemies; Thy Right Hand has found out those that hate thee! God has Plagued them with Famin•, and Sioknest, and many Wasting Miseries 'Tis affirmed. They are so reduced, that they cannot make Half the Number, which they could when the W• began. God has distressed them Wonderfully! And so He will Some who are greater than they, and who have infused their Maxims into them. There is that Mighty Voice from the GOD of TRUTH to Those, in what has befallen These.

HOW Many of them, have been Sacrificed by O• Sword, it is not Easy for us to say. They never Assault, but when they can Surprize. They have Quick Retreats to Thickets and Mountains that are to us inaccessible; The Europeans, who Wonder that all these Colonies don't Presently Swallow them up, have no Idea of them. When also any of them fall in Battel, the Survivers use more than ordinary Care to Cover them. However, I have been able to reckon many more than an Hundred of these Cursed Salvages, which have been known to be Kill'd by Our Hands. But, Thy Hand. O Lord, has found 〈…〉 thine Enemies; Thy Right Hand has found out those that hate thee! God has Plagued them with Famin•, and Sioknest, and many Wasting Miseries 'Tis affirm'd. They are so reduced, that they cannot make Half the Number, which they could when the W• began. God has distress'd them Wonderfully! And so He will Some who are greater than they, and who have infused their Maxims into them. There is that Mighty Voice from the GOD of TRUTH to Those, in what has befallen These.

AND yet, I Wish, the Wounded Chaldeans, may not rise up Once more to inflict Grievous Wounds upon Us. To Prevent more Desolations, I would with all Humility, but with all Importunity, most Vehemently, and with most Pressing Instances, beseech the Government, That all due Methods may be taken, for the Upholding of Religion in the Plantations of the East, as they shall be going on. Sirs, What has been done more than twice to break up our Eastern Plantations, has in it this Voice of the Glorious GOD; Yea, 'tis His Mighty Voice. Oh! Let not People be any more so Foolish, as to think of taking Root, in Ungospellized Settlements; Lest I Once more do Suddenly Curse their Habitations.

BUT then, Thirdly; We must be aware of this; That none of the Particular Depredations, which the Enemy has in this Long War made upon us, have been without a Voice from the Glorious GOD unto us in them: Yea, a Mighty Voice, which ought to be heard attentively, as the Sound going out from His Mouth.

HE that would Write the History of this War, must put upon it the Title that Orosius put upon his History, De Miseria homin•m.

AN Exact and Punctual Account of the several Depredations, with which the Wild-beasts of the Desert have broke in upon us, is not necessary to be Exhibited. Nor would it often afford more Material Passages, than those Insipid Ones, which the Funeral Orations on the Professors in the Universities are commonly Stuffed withal. But allow me to throw the Murdered and the Captived into the same List, ⟨p. 13⟩as there is too much cause to do, and I find my self able to bring in a List of near Seven Hundred Persons, whom our Offended GOD has delivered up into the dreadful Hands of the Salvages. No doubt there have been more! The Boast made by One bloody Son of Cain among them has been generally heard of! — Animus meminisse ho•et!

OFTENTIMES what the Salvages have done, has been upon one, or two, or theirs, at a time; done by a Skulking and Woiviso Adversary.

BUT Sometimes a Town has undergone a greater Effusion of Blood. Haverhil at once Loses above Thirty of it's Inhabitants; And, Poor Deerfield!— Never to be forgotten Deerfield! — An Hundred, and Perhaps twice Thirty more.

HOW many Deaths have been Contracted and Hastened, by the Fatigues of Attempts against the Enemy, — there can be no Account.

ADD unto these, the Numberless Deaths, accelerated upon ours in their Engagements with the French at Sea, or by their Confinements among them: — Here our Bleeding Land would Cry out, Oh! That my Grief were thoroughly Weighed! Now it would be heavy like the Sand o• the Sea.

ADD unto these, the Numberless Deaths, accelerated upon ours in their Engagements with the French at Sea, or by their Confinements among them: — Here our Bleeding Land would Cry out, Oh! That my Grief were thoroughly Weigh'd! Now it would be heavy like the Sand o• the Sea.

BUT, What I am now to note, is, There has been a Voice of the Glorious GOD, in every One of these Disasters.

I have reckoned up, in this War, near an Hundred Times, that Evil Tidings have been brought in unto ⟨p. 14⟩us, of Mischiefs done to our Brethren and our Children, on the Land. Mischief upon Mischief! — Besides those which have come to us, on the Other Element. Among which, that on Fishery at one time amounting to Ten Thousand Pounds Damage, will not be forgotten! Sirs, There has been a Voice from the Glorious GOD Renewed unto us, in every Stroke of such Evil Tidings. A Voice from the East, a Voice from the West, a Voice from the North, and a Mighty Voice coming over the Mighty Waters too; A Voice from the Lord, rendering His Righteous Recompenses to us, by our Enemies. His terrible Voice in all these things has been, I am displeased with you; Oh! Take up due Sentiments of my awful Displeasure at you!

I have reckoned up, in this War, near an Hundred Times, that Evil Tidings have been brought in unto ⟨p. 14⟩us, of Mischiefs done to our Brethren and our Children, on the Land. Mischief upon Mischief! — Besides those which have come to us, on the Other Element. Among which, that on Fishery at one time amounting to Ten Thousand Pounds Damage, will not be forgotten! Sirs, There has been a Voice from the Glorious GOD Renew'd unto us, in every Stroke of such Evil Tidings. A Voice from the East, a Voice from the West, a Voice from the North, and a Mighty Voice coming over the Mighty Waters too; A Voice from the Lord, rendring His Righteous Recompences to us, by our Enemies. His terrible Voice in all these things has been, I am displeased with you; Oh! Take up due Sentiments of my awful Displeasure at you!

IN the midst of these Calamitous Things, could we see BOSTON in Flames; the very Place where I am now Standing, Perish in the Flames; the Glare whereof reached more than hundred Miles off; and not hear the Voice of a Provoked GOD, in these Fiery Rebukes? Yea, our GOD Spoke to us with His Mighty Voice from the Midst of the Fire, as from another Mount Sinai; His Voice unto us was, O Fear Me, and Receive Instruction, that so no more of your Dwellings may be cut off!