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<P><HI>Decennium Luctuo&s;um.</HI></P>
<P>AN HISTORY OF Remarkable Occurrences, In the Long WAR, WHICH <HI>NEW-ENGLAND</HI> hath had with the <HI>Indian Salvages,</HI></P>
<P>From the Year, 1688.</P>
<P>To the Year, 1698.</P>
<P>Faithfully Compo&s;ed and Improved.</P>
<Q>Infandum, . . . .Jubes Renovare Dolorem.</Q>
<P><HI>BOSTON</HI> in <HI>New-England.</HI></P>
<P>Printed by <HI>B. Green,</HI> and <HI>J. Allen,</HI> for <HI>Samuel Phillips,</HI> at the Brick Shop near the Old-Meeting-Hou&s;e. 1699.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Dedication.</HI> TO THE PEOPLE OF <HI>NEW-ENGLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIRS,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOU are Welcome unto the <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> of a Tedious <HI>War,</HI> and unto a <HI>Period</HI> of that <HI>War</HI> &s;o far in pro&s;pect, as to ren|der its <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> Sea&s;onable.</P>
<P>Every <HI>Rea&s;onable</HI> man will readily allow, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">t is a <HI>Duty</HI> to God, and a <HI>Service</HI> to the World, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">or to pre&s;erve, the <HI>Memory</HI> of &s;uch matters, as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ave been the more <HI>Memorable Occurrences</HI> in the
<PB N="4" REF="3"> <HI>War,</HI> that ha's for <HI>Ten Years</HI> together, been mul|tiplying <HI>Changes</HI> and <HI>Sorrows</HI> upon us. And the <HI>Author,</HI> in who&s;e Hi&s;torical Writings, the mo&s;t <HI>Inqui&s;itive Envy,</HI> ha's never to this Hour detected, &s;o much as one Voluntary and Material Mi&s;take, or one farthing paid unto the Readers in the Coin of <HI>Candia,</HI> ha's now cho&s;en to pre&s;erve the <HI>Memory</HI> of the&s;e matters, while they are <HI>Fre&s;h</HI> &amp; <HI>New,</HI> and one hath not <HI>Fifty years,</HI> which is the Channel of the <HI>River of Oblivion,</HI> to pa&s;s over un|to them. This <HI>Expedition</HI> is u&s;ed in the publica|tion of our <HI>Decennium Luctuo&s;um,</HI> in hope that if any mi&s;take, worth Noting, do appear in <HI>the&s;e</HI> Writing<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, it may, <HI>Like</HI> and perhaps <HI>With,</HI> a <HI>Second Edition,</HI> be <HI>Corrected and Amended.</HI></P>
<P>He Expects no <HI>Thanks</HI> for his E&s;&s;ayes to <HI>Do Good,</HI> in this way, or any other, unto any part of his Country, to whom he would gladly devote all his <HI>Talents,</HI> if he were a Thou&s;and Times bet|ter <HI>Talented</HI> than he is; and though the mo&s;t Ungrateful Trea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Imaginable (which are too well known by the Name of <HI>Country-pay</HI>) &s;hould be given him, he would &s;till be of that Opinion, <HI>Recte feci&s;&s;e Merces est,</HI> If a man may <HI>Do Good,</HI> it is enough.</P>
<P>All the <HI>Favour</HI> he de&s;ires of you, is, That you would <HI>not Enquire after him;</HI> or ask, <HI>who he is?</HI> but that, as he is at be&s;t, but an <HI>Ob&s;cure</HI> Per&s;on, he may continue in yet more <HI>Ob&s;curity:</HI> which will be a greater plea&s;ure to him than to be
<PB N="5" REF="3"> placed among <HI>the Great men of Achaia.</HI></P>
<P>For indeed, He hath often thought on a pa&s;|&s;age written by Holy Mr. <HI>Row,</HI> to his Excellent Son, <HI>I pray, That God would make u&s;e of my &s;elf and you, in &s;uch a way, as that God only may be &s;een, and we not be taken notice of at all; that He may have the Glory, and we may not be &s;een.</HI></P>
<P>Could he have invited His EXCELLENCY unto &s;uch a glorious Table, as that in a certain Cabinet at <HI>Florence,</HI> which is furni&s;hed with Birds and Flow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs, all con&s;i&s;ting of Nea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly poli&s;hed <HI>Jewels</HI> it laid into it; a Work Fifteen years in making, and worth an Hundred Thou&s;and Crowns: or could he have written a Book, wor|thy to be laid up in the <HI>Cabinet</HI> of <HI>Darius:</HI> the Author might have been under a Temptation to have had his <HI>Name</HI> Engraved upon his <HI>Work.</HI> But a little Boild <HI>Indian Corn</HI> in a <HI>Tray,</HI> is as much as our Be&s;t Hi&s;tory of an <HI>Indian War,</HI> compos'd perhaps in fewer <HI>Dayes,</HI> than there were <HI>Years</HI> in the <HI>War,</HI> may pre&s;ume to be compar'd unto And &s;ince our Hi&s;tory will not afford &s;uch a Di+ver&s;ion unto <HI>His Excellency,</HI> under the Indi&s;po&s;iti|ons of His <HI>Health,</HI> as tho&s;e of <HI>Livy</HI> &amp; <HI>Curtius</HI> did unto the Princes that Recovered their lo&s;t <HI>Health</HI> by Reading them; nor can any any pa&s;&s;age here be &s;o happy, as <HI>That</HI> which cured <HI>Laurentius Me|dices</HI> of a Malady, by having it Read unto him it wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l require no more than a <HI>Namele&s;s Writer,</HI> to A&s;&s;ure that Great Per&s;on on this Occa&s;ion,
<PB N="6" REF="4"> That all the Good People of <HI>New-England,</HI> make their Fervent Vows unto the Almighty, <HI>For His Excellencies Pro&s;perity, and the Welfare of His Excel|lent Lady, and of His Noble and Hopeful Offspring.</HI></P>
<P>And the <HI>Naming</HI> of the Author, is as little Ne|ce&s;&s;ary to Qualify him, that he may pay publick Acknowledgments unto the Honorable, the <HI>Lieu|tenant Governour;</HI> not only for his Cares about the Publick, while it was <HI>Tempestuated,</HI> with the <HI>Indian War,</HI> which now makes an <HI>History;</HI> but chiefly for his more than ordinary Tenderne&s;s of that Society, which ha's been the very, <HI>Decus ac Tutamen,</HI> of <HI>New England.</HI> The <HI>Namele&s;s Writer</HI> of this Hi&s;tory, may Report, that with a Greater Expence, than that of the <HI>Fir&s;t-Founder,</HI> this Ho|norable Per&s;on proves, that he <HI>Loves our Nation,</HI> by <HI>Building</HI> us another <HI>Edifice,</HI> for the Supply of all our <HI>Synagogues,</HI> and STOUGHTON-HALL, out &s;hines HARVARD-COLLEDGE: and he &s;peaks <HI>Kinder Language,</HI> as well as <HI>Better Latin,</HI> than that Eminent States-man in <HI>Flanders,</HI> who&s;e An&s;wer to a Petition for the priviledges of an Univer&s;ity there to be re&s;tored, was, <HI>Non cura|mus vo&s;tros privilegios.</HI> This Report may he give, without being obliged for to Confe&s;s any other <HI>Name</HI> than this, which he Readily Confe&s;&s;es; <HI>One that was once a Member of</HI> Harvard-Colledge.</P>
<P>I pray, Sirs, Ask no further; Let this Writing be, like that on the Wall to <HI>Bel&s;hazzar,</HI> where the
<PB N="7" REF="4"> Hand only was to be &s;een, and not who's it was. The <HI>History</HI> is compiled with <HI>Incontestable Vera|city;</HI> and &s;ince there is no <HI>Ingenuity</HI> in it, but le&s;s than what many Pens in the Land might Com|mand, he knows not why his Writing <HI>Anonymou&s;ly</HI> may not Shelter him, from the Inconveniencies of having any Notice, one way or other, taken of him. Though among his other &s;mall Furni|ture, he hath not left him&s;elf unfurni&s;hed with skill in the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Language, yet he never could bring him&s;elf to the Belief of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Proverb, <HI>Quien no parece, perece; i. e.</HI> He that appears not, peri&s;hes; He that Shows not him&s;elf to the world, is undone. At <HI>Milain,</HI> there is an <HI>Aca|demy</HI> of Sen&s;ible Per&s;ons, called The <HI>Na&s;co&s;ti,</HI> or, <HI>Hidden men;</HI> At <HI>Venice,</HI> there is one of &s;uch per&s;ons, called, The <HI>Incogniti;</HI> and at <HI>Parma,</HI> there is one of them, called, The <HI>Innominati.</HI> If there were nothing el&s;e Di&s;agreeable in them, the Author of this <HI>History,</HI> would be glad of an Admi&s;&s;ion into &s;uch an <HI>Academy.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> is indeed of no very <HI>Fine Thred;</HI> and the Readers, who every where <HI>Fi&s;h for no|thing but Carps,</HI> and who Love, like <HI>Augustus</HI> to <HI>Tax all the World,</HI> may find Fault enough with it. Neverthele&s;s, while the <HI>Fault</HI> of an <HI>Untruth</HI> can't be found in it, the Author pretends, that the famous Hi&s;tory of the <HI>Trojan War</HI> it &s;elf, comes behind our little Hi&s;tory of the <HI>Indian War;</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="5"> For the be&s;t An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">iquaries, have now confuted <HI>Homer;</HI> the Walls of <HI>Troy</HI> were it &s;eems, all made of <HI>Poets Paper;</HI> and the Siege of the Town with the Tragedies of the Wooden Hor&s;e, were all but a piece of <HI>Poetry.</HI></P>
<P>And if a <HI>War</HI> between <HI>Us,</HI> and an Handful of <HI>Indians,</HI> do appear no more than a <HI>Batracho|myomachie,</HI> to the World <HI>abroad</HI> yet unto us <HI>at home,</HI> it hath been con&s;iderable-enough, to make an <HI>Hi&s;tory.</HI> Nor is the Author afraid of promi|&s;ing, that of all the <HI>Thirty Articles</HI> which make up this <HI>Hi&s;tory,</HI> there &s;hall not be <HI>One,</HI> without <HI>&s;omething</HI> in it, that may by our &s;elves be ju&s;tly thought <HI>Con&s;iderable.</HI></P>
<P>Should any <HI>Petit Mon&s;ieur</HI> complain (as the Captain, that found not him&s;elf in the <HI>Tape&s;try Hangings,</HI> which Exhibited the Story of the Spani&s;h Inva&s;ion in 1588.) that he don't find him&s;elf mentioned in this <HI>Hi&s;tory,</HI> the Author has his Apology. He has done as <HI>well</HI> and as <HI>much</HI> as he could, that whatever was worthy of a mention, might have it; and if this Collecti|on of Matters be not compleat, yet he &s;uppo&s;es it may be more compleat, than any one el&s;e hath made; and now he hath done, he hath not pull'd up the <HI>Ladder</HI> after him; <HI>others</HI> may go on, as they plea&s;e, with a compleater Com|po&s;ure.</P>
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<P>If the Author hath taken Delight, in this <HI>Hi|&s;tory,</HI> and at all Times, to Celebrate the <HI>Merits,</HI> of &s;uch as have De&s;erved well of his Country, [which he has here done it may be, for &s;ome that never could afford <HI>him</HI> a good word!] E&s;pecially, if he do Erect <HI>Statues</HI> for <HI>Dead Wor|thies,</HI> when there is no Room Left for Flatte|ry, [for who will be&s;tow <HI>paint</HI> upon a <HI>Dead Face!</HI>] And if he do all this, with all po&s;&s;ible concern, to avoid ca&s;ting <HI>A&s;per&s;ions</HI> upon <HI>others:</HI> Why &s;hould any betray &s;uch <HI>Ili Nature,</HI> as to be angry at it? <HI>My Good Country, forgive him this Injury!</HI></P>
<Q>Huic Uni for&s;an poteram Succumbere culpae.</Q>
<P>But, whatever this <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> be, it aims at the <HI>Doing</HI> of <HI>Good,</HI> as well as the <HI>Telling</HI> of <HI>Truth;</HI> and if its Aim &s;hall be attained, <HI>That</HI> will be a &s;ufficient <HI>Reward</HI> for all the Trouble of Writing it. When he De&s;ires any more, he'l give you his <HI>Name;</HI> In the mean Time, as a far greater man once was called, <HI>Ludovicus Nihili,</HI> which you may make, <HI>Lewis</HI> of <HI>Nothingham;</HI> &s;o the Au|thor will count him&s;elf not a little favoured, if he may pa&s;s for one of no more Account, than a, <HI>No body;</HI> which would certainly make a very <HI>Blamele&s;s</HI> per&s;on of him.</P>
<P>However, that the <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> may not altogether want a <HI>Sub&s;cription;</HI> the Author, finding it a Cu&s;tome among the Chri&s;tian Writers of the <HI>Orient,</HI> when they have written a Treati&s;e, to
<PB N="10" REF="6"> Sub&s;cribe it after this manner; <HI>Scriptum per Ser|vum vilem pauperem, omnibus Ju&s;titiis privatum, peccatorem magis quam omnis Caro;</HI> Or, <HI>Scrip&s;it hoc pauper</HI> N. N. Or, <HI>E&s;t Scriptura &s;ervi pauperis, et qui Benevolentia Dei indiget, et mi&s;erationibus;</HI> he will accordingly Sub&s;cribe him&s;elf, <HI>The Chief of Sinners.</HI> Neverthele&s;s, he will humbly Lay claim to the Words, u&s;ed by the <HI>Namele&s;s Au|thor</HI> of a Treati&s;e, Entituled, <HI>The Faithful Stew|ard:</HI> <Q REND="margQuotes">Tho' I am wor&s;e then they &s;peak of me, who ca&s;t Di&s;grace upon me, and I can E&s;py <HI>Ten</HI> Faults in my &s;elf, where they can di&s;cern <HI>One,</HI> yet I can, thro' Grace, Appeal to Thee, O Lord, with &s;ome Comfort, that I am <HI>Di&s;|plea&s;ed</HI> with <HI>my &s;elf</HI> for my Sins, and would fain <HI>plea&s;e Thee,</HI> in all Things, at all Times, in all places, and in every Condition.</Q></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Decennium Luctuo&s;um.</HI> OR, The Remarkables of a long WAR WITH <HI>Indian</HI>-Salvages.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>INTRODUCTION.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TWenty Three Years have Rolled a|way &s;ince the Nations of Indians within the Confines of <HI>New England,</HI> generally began a Fierce <HI>War,</HI> upon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Inhabitants of that Country. The Flame of <HI>War</HI> then Raged thro' a great part of
<PB N="12" REF="7"> the Country, whereby many whole <HI>Towns</HI> were L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">id in A&s;hes, and many <HI>Lives</HI> were Sacrificed. Bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tle more than one years Time, the <HI>U|nited-Colonies</HI> of <HI>Plymouth, Ma&s;&s;achu&s;et,</HI> and <HI>Con|ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ticut,</HI> with the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r United Endeavours, bravely C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">quered the <HI>Salvages.</HI> The Evident Hand of Heaven appearing on the Side of a people who&s;e <HI>Hope</HI> and <HI>Help</HI> was alone in the Almigh|ty <HI>Lord of Hosts,</HI> Extingui&s;hed whole <HI>Nations</HI> of the <HI>Salvages</HI> at &s;uch a rate, that there can hard|ly any of them, now be found under any Di|&s;tinction upon the face of the Earth. Onely, the Eare of our Northern and Ea&s;tern Regions in that <HI>War,</HI> wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y different <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">om that of the re&s;t. The De&s;ol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ions of the <HI>War</HI> had over|whelm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d all the Settlements to the North-Ea&s;t of <HI>We&s;ts.</HI> And when the Time arrived, that all hands were weary of the <HI>War,</HI> a &s;ort of a <HI>Peace</HI> was patched up, which Left a Body of <HI>Indians,</HI> not only with Horrible Murders Unrevenged, but al&s;o, in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of no little part of the Countrey, with circum&s;tances which the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> might think, not very Honourable. Up|on this <HI>Peace,</HI> the Engli&s;h returned unto their <HI>Plantations;</HI> their Number increa&s;ed; they Stock'd their <HI>Farms,</HI> and Sow'd their <HI>Fields;</HI> they found the <HI>Air</HI> as <HI>Healthful;</HI> as the <HI>Earth</HI> was <HI>Fru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tful;</HI> their <HI>Lumber</HI> and their <HI>Fi&s;hery</HI> be|came a con&s;iderable Merchandize; continual Acce&s;&s;ions were made unto them, until Ten or
<PB N="13" REF="7"> a Dozen <HI>Towns,</HI> in the Province of <HI>Main,</HI> and the County of <HI>Cornwall,</HI> were &s;uddenly Started up into &s;omething of Ob&s;ervation.</P>
<P>But in the Year, 1688. the <HI>Indians</HI> which dwelt after the <HI>Indian</HI> manner among them, Commenced another <HI>War</HI> upon the&s;e <HI>Plantati|ons,</HI> which hath broke <HI>them</HI> up, and &s;trangely held <HI>us</HI> in play for <HI>Ten Years</HI> together. In the&s;e <HI>Ten Years,</HI> there hath been a variety of <HI>Remarka|ble Occurrences;</HI> and becau&s;e I have &s;uppo&s;ed that a <HI>Relation</HI> of tho&s;e <HI>Occurrences</HI> may be Ac|ceptable and Profitable to &s;ome of my Coun|try men, I &s;hall now <HI>with all Faithfulne&s;s</HI> Endea|vour it. <HI>With all Faithfulne&s;s,</HI> I &s;ay; becau&s;e tho' there &s;hould happen any <HI>Circum&s;tantial Mi|stake</HI> in our Story, (for 'tis a rare thing for any Two men, concern'd in the &s;ame Action, to give the Story of it, without &s;ome <HI>Circum&s;tantial Difference,</HI>) yet even thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> al&s;o, I &s;hall be willing to <HI>Retract</HI> and <HI>Correct,</HI> if there be found any ju&s;t occa&s;ion: But for any one <HI>Material Error,</HI> in the whole Compo&s;ure, I challenge the mo&s;t <HI>Sagacious Malica,</HI> upon Earth to detect it, while matters are y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;o fre&s;h, as to allow the Detecti|on of it. I di&s;dain to make the Apology, once made by the Roman Hi&s;torian; <HI>Nemo Hi&s;toricus non aliquid mentitus, et habiturus &s;um mendaciorum Comites, quos Hi&s;toriae et eloquentiae miramur Au|thores.</HI> No, I will write with an Irreproachable and Inconte&s;table <HI>Veracity;</HI> and I will write not
<PB N="14" REF="8"> one Thihg, but what I am furni&s;hed with &s;o good Authority for, that any Rea&s;onable man, who will plea&s;e to Examine it, &s;hall &s;ay, <HI>I do well to in&s;ert it as I do:</HI> And I will hope, that my Reader hath not been Studying of <HI>Godefridus de Valle's</HI> Book, <HI>De Arte nihil Credendi;</HI> About, <HI>The Art of Believing nothing.</HI> Wherefore, ha|ving at the very Beginning thus given &s;uch a Knock upon thy <HI>Head, O malice;</HI> that thou can&s;t never with Rea&s;on <HI>Hi&s;s</HI> at our <HI>Hi&s;tory,</HI> we will proceed unto the &s;everal Articles of it.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. I.</HI> The Occa&s;ion and Beginning of the WAR.</HEAD>
<P>IF <HI>Diodorus Siculus</HI> had never given it as a great Rule of <HI>Hi&s;tory, Hi&s;toriae primum Studium, pri|maria&abque; con&s;ideratio e&s;&s;e videtur, in&s;oliti gravi&s;&abque; Ca&s;us principio cau&s;as investigare,</HI> Yet my Reader would have expected, that I &s;hould <HI>Begin</HI> the Hi&s;tory of our <HI>War,</HI> with an Hi&s;tory of the Oc|currences and Occa&s;ions which did <HI>Begin</HI> the <HI>War.</HI> Now, Reader, I am at the very fir&s;t fal|len upon a <HI>Difficult Point;</HI> and I am in danger of pulling a <HI>War</HI> upon my &s;elf, by Endeavour|ing of thy Satisfaction. In Truth, I had rather be called a <HI>Coward,</HI> than undertake my &s;elf to Determine the <HI>Truth</HI> in this matter: but having <HI>Armed</HI> my &s;elf with &s;ome good Authority, for
<PB N="15" REF="8"> it, I will Tran&s;cribe Two or Three Reports of the matter, now in my Hands, and Leave it unto thy own Determination.</P>
<P>One Account, I have now lying by me, Written by a Gentleman of <HI>Dover;</HI> in the&s;e Terms.</P>
<Q REND="margQuotes"><P>The Ea&s;tern <HI>Indians,</HI> and e&s;pecially tho&s;e of <HI>Saco,</HI> and <HI>Ammono&s;coggin,</HI> pretend many Rea&s;ons, for the late Quarrel again&s;t the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> which began this long and bloody <HI>War.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> refu&s;ed to pay that yearly Tribute of <HI>Corn,</HI> agreed upon, in the <HI>Ar|ticles of Peace,</HI> formerly concluded with them, by the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Becau&s;e they were Invaded in their</HI> Fi&s;hery, <HI>at</HI> Saco <HI>River, by certain Gentlemen, who &s;top'd the</HI> Fi&s;h, <HI>from coming up the River, with their</HI> Nets, <HI>and</HI> Sains. <HI>This they were greatly Affronted at; &s;aying,</HI> They thought (though the Engli&s;h had got away their Lands as they had, yet) the Fi&s;hery of the Rivers had been a priviledge Re&s;erved Entire unto them&s;elves.</P>
<P N="3">3.Becau&s;e they were Abu&s;ed by the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> in Suffering, if not Turning, their Cattel over to a certain I&s;land to de&s;troy their Corn.</P>
<P N="4">4. But the <HI>Fourth,</HI> and <HI>Main,</HI> provocation was, The Granting, or <HI>Pattenting</HI> of their Lands, to &s;ome Engli&s;h; at which they were greatly Enraged; threatning the Surveyor, to knock him on the Head, if he came to lay out any Lands there.</P>
<P N="5"><PB N="16" REF="9">5. To the&s;e may be added, the Common Abu&s;es, in <HI>Trading; viz.</HI> Drunkenne&s;s, Cheat|ing, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which &s;uch as Trade much with them, are &s;eldom Innocent of.</P></Q>
<P>Doubtle&s;s, the&s;e <HI>Indian</HI> Allegations may be an|&s;wered with many <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Vindications. But I &s;hall at pre&s;ent Intermeddle no further, than to offer another Account, which al&s;o I have in my Hands, written by a Gentleman of <HI>Ca&s;co.</HI></P>
<P>It runs in &s;uch Terms as the&s;e.</P>
<P><Q REND="margQuotes">Many were the Outrages and In&s;ultings of the <HI>Indians</HI> upon the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> while Sir <HI>E. A.</HI> was Governour. At <HI>North Yarmouth,</HI> and other places at the Ea&s;tward, the Indians killed &s;undry Cattel, came into Hou&s;es, and threatned to knock the people on the Head; and at &s;everal Times gave out Reports, that they would make a <HI>War</HI> upon the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and that they were ani|mated to do &s;o, by the <HI>French.</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> behaving them&s;elves &s;o in&s;ultingly, gave ju&s;t occa&s;ion of great &s;u&s;picion. In order for the finding out the <HI>Truth,</HI> and to Endeavour the preventing of a <HI>War,</HI> Capt. <HI>Blackman,</HI> a Ju&s;tice of Peace, with &s;ome of the Neighbourhood, of <HI>Saco</HI> River, Seized &s;everal <HI>Indians</HI> that had been bloody murderous <HI>Rogues,</HI> in the fir&s;t <HI>In|dian War;</HI> being the chie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ring Leaders, and mo&s;t capable to do mi&s;chief. The &s;aid Capt. <HI>Blackman</HI> Seized to the Number of between Sixteen and Twenty, in order for t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eir Ex|amination,
<PB N="17" REF="9"> and to bring in the re&s;t to a Treaty. The &s;aid <HI>Blackman</HI> &s;oon &s;ent the &s;aid <HI>Indians,</HI> with a Good Guard, to <HI>Falmouth,</HI> in <HI>Ca&s;co-bay,</HI> there to be Secured, until orders could come from <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> concerning them. And in the mean Time, the &s;aid <HI>Indians,</HI> were well provided with Provi&s;ions, and Suitable Nece&s;&s;aries. The re&s;t of the Indians Robb'd the Engli&s;h, and took &s;ome Engli&s;h Pri&s;oners: Whereupon Po&s;t was &s;ent to <HI>Bo&s;ton.</HI> Sir <HI>Edmond Andro&s;s</HI> being at <HI>New-York,</HI> the Gentlemen of <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> &s;ent to <HI>Falmouth,</HI> &s;ome Souldiers for the Defence of the Country, and al&s;o the Wor&s;hipful Mr. <HI>Stoughton,</HI> with others, to Treat with the <HI>Indians,</HI> in order for the Settling of a <HI>Peace,</HI> and getting in of our Engli&s;h Captives. As &s;oon as the &s;aid Gentle|men arrived at the Ea&s;t-ward, they &s;ent away one of the <HI>Indian</HI> Pri&s;oners, to the re&s;t of the <HI>Indians,</HI> to Summon them, to bring in the Eng|li&s;h they had taken; Al&s;o, that their <HI>Sachims</HI> &s;hould come in, to treat with the Engli&s;h, in order that a Ju&s;t Satisfaction &s;hould be made on both &s;ides. The Gentlemen waited the Return of the <HI>Indian</HI> Me&s;&s;enger; and when he Return|ed, he brought An&s;wer, That they would meet our Engli&s;h at a place, called, <HI>Macquoit,</HI> and there they would bring in the Engli&s;h Captives, and Treat with the Engli&s;h. And although the place appointed by the <HI>Indians,</HI> for the Meeting, was &s;ome Leagues di&s;tant from <HI>Fal|mouth,</HI>
<PB N="18" REF="10"> yet our Engli&s;h Gentlemen did conde|&s;cend to it, in hope of getting in our Captives, &amp; putting a &s;top to further Trouble. They Di&s;|pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch'd away to the place, and carried the <HI>In|dian</HI> Pri&s;oners with them, and &s;taid at the place appointed, expecting the coming of the <HI>Indi|ans,</HI> that had promi&s;ed a Meeting. But they like fal&s;e perfidious Rogues, did not appear. Without doubt they had been coun&s;elled what to do, by the <HI>French,</HI> and their Abettors; as the <HI>Indians</HI> did declare afterwards; and that they were near the place, and &s;aw our <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> that were to Treat with them, but would not &s;hew them&s;elves, but did Endeavour to take an Opportunity to De&s;troy our Engli&s;h, that were to Treat them. Such was their Treachery! Our Gentlemen &s;taid days to wait their co|ming; but &s;eeing they did not appear at the place appointed, they Returned to <HI>Falmouth,</HI> and brought the Indian Pri&s;oners; expecting that the other <HI>Indians</HI> would have &s;ent down &s;ome Rea&s;on, why they did not appear at the place appointed, and to make &s;ome excu&s;e for them&s;elves. But in&s;tead of any compliance; they fell upon <HI>North Yarmouth,</HI> and there kill'd &s;everal of our Engli&s;h. Whereupon the Ea&s;t|ern parts were ordered to get into Garri&s;ons, and to be upon their Guard, until further Or|ders from Sir <HI>Edmond Andros;</HI> and that the In|dian Pri&s;oners &s;hould be &s;ent to <HI>Bo&s;ton;</HI> which
<PB N="19" REF="10"> was done with great care, and not one of them hurt; and care taken daily for provi&s;ion. But Sir <HI>E. A.</HI> Returning from <HI>New York,</HI> &s;et them all at Liberty; not &s;o much as taking care to Redeem tho&s;e of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> for them, that were in their hands. I had kept one at <HI>Fal|mouth,</HI> a Pri&s;oner to be a Guide into the Woods, for our Engli&s;h, to find out the Haunts of our Heathen Enemies. But Sir <HI>E. A</HI> &s;ent an Ex|pre&s;s to me, that upon my utmo&s;t peril I &s;hould &s;et the &s;aid Indian at Liberty, and take care that all the Arms, that were taken from him, and all the re&s;t of tho&s;e Capt. <HI>Blackman</HI> had Seized, &s;hould be delivered up to them, without any Orders to Receive the like of ours from them.</Q></P>
<P>It will be readily Acknowledged, that here was enough done, to render the <HI>Indians</HI> Inexcu|&s;able, for not coming in, upon the <HI>Proclamation,</HI> which Sir <HI>Edmond Andros,</HI> then Governour of <HI>New-England,</HI> immediately Emitted thereupon, requiring them, to Surrender the <HI>Murderers,</HI> now among them. A Spaniard, that was a Souldier, would &s;ay, <HI>That if we hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a Good Cau&s;e, the &s;mell of Gunpowder in the Field is as &s;weet as the Incen&s;e at the Altar.</HI> Let the Reader judge after the&s;e things, what &s;cent there was in the <HI>Gun|powder</HI> &s;pent for Nine or Ten years together in our <HI>War</HI> with the <HI>Indian Salvages.</HI></P>
<P>Now, that while we are upon this Head, we
<PB N="20" REF="11"> may at once di&s;patch it, I will unto the&s;e Two Accounts, add certain pa&s;&s;ages of one more; which was publi&s;hed in <HI>September.</HI> 1689.</P>
<P><Q REND="margQuotes">Such were the <HI>Ob&s;cure Mea&s;ures</HI> taken at that Time of Day, that the <HI>Ri&s;e</HI> of this <HI>War,</HI> hath been as dark as that of the River <HI>Nilus;</HI> only the Generality of <HI>Thinking People</HI> through the Country, can Remember <HI>When,</HI> and <HI>Why,</HI> every one did foretel, <HI>A War.</HI> If any <HI>Wild Engli&s;h</HI> (for there are &s;uch as well as of another Na|tion,) did then, <HI>Begin</HI> to Provoke and Affront the <HI>Indians,</HI> yet tho&s;e <HI>Indians</HI> had a fairer way to come by Right, than that of <HI>Blood &s;hed;</HI> no|thing worthy of, or calling for, any <HI>Such</HI> Re|venge was done unto them. The mo&s;t <HI>Injured</HI> of them all, (if there were any <HI>Such</HI>) were af|terwards di&s;mi&s;&s;ed by the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> with Favours, that were then Admirable even to <HI>Our &s;elves;</HI> and <HI>The&s;e</HI> too, in&s;tead of Surrendring the <HI>Per|&s;ons,</HI> did increa&s;e the <HI>Numbers,</HI> of the <HI>Murderers.</HI> But upon the REVOLUTION of the Govern|ment [<HI>April</HI> 1689.] the <HI>State of the War,</HI> be|came wholly <HI>New:</HI> and we are more arrived unto <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s as the Light,</HI> and <HI>Ju&s;tice as the Noon day.</HI> A great <HI>Sachim</HI> of the Ea&s;t, we then immediately Applied our &s;elves unto, and with no &s;mall Expences to our &s;elves we Engaged <HI>Him,</HI> to Employ his Intere&s;t for a Good Un|der&s;tanding between us, &amp; the party of <HI>Indians</HI> then in Ho&s;tility again&s;t us. <HI>This</HI> was the <HI>Likely,</HI>
<PB N="21" REF="11"> the <HI>Only</HI> way, of coming at tho&s;e Wandring Salvages: But That very <HI>Sachim</HI> now treache|rou&s;ly, of an <HI>Emba&s;&s;ador</HI> became a <HI>Traitor,</HI> and annexed him&s;elf, with his People, to the <HI>Heard</HI> of our Enemies, which have &s;ince been Ravag|ing, Pillaging, and Murdering at a rate, which we ought to count, <HI>Intolerable.</HI> The <HI>Penacook</HI> Indians, of whom we were Jealous, we likewi&s;e Treated with; and while we were, by our <HI>Kindne&s;&s;es</HI> and <HI>Courte&s;ies</HI> Endeavouring to render them utterly Inexcu&s;able, if ever they &s;ought our Harm: Even <HI>Then</HI> did <HI>The&s;e</HI> al&s;o, by &s;ome <HI>Evil In&s;tigation (the Devils,</HI> no doubt!) quickly Surprize a Plantation, where they had been Civilly treated a Day or Two before, &amp; Commit at once, more <HI>Plunder</HI> and <HI>Murder,</HI> than can be heard with any patience.</Q></P>
<P>Reader, Having &s;o placed the&s;e Three Ac|counts as to defend my <HI>Teeth,</HI> I think, I may &s;afely proceed with our Story. But becau&s;e <HI>Tacitus</HI> teaches us, to di&s;tingui&s;h between, the meer <HI>Occa&s;ions,</HI> and the real <HI>Cau&s;es,</HI> of a <HI>War,</HI> it may be &s;ome will go a little Higher up in their Enquiries: They will Enquire, whether no body Seized a parcel of <HI>Wines,</HI> that were Landed at a French Plantation to the Ea&s;t ward? Whether an Order were not obtained from the King of <HI>England,</HI> at the In&s;tance of the French Emba&s;&s;a|dor, to Re&s;tore the&s;e <HI>Wines?</HI> Whether upon the Vexation of this <HI>Order,</HI> we none of us ran a <HI>New
<PB N="22" REF="12"> Line</HI> for the Bounds of the Province? Whether we did not contrive our <HI>New Line,</HI> &s;o as to take in the Country of Mon&s;ieur St. <HI>Ca&s;teen?</HI> Whe|ther Mon&s;ieur St. <HI>Ca&s;teen</HI> flying from our En|croachments, we did not Seize upon his Arms, and Goods, and bring them away to <HI>Pemmaquid?</HI> And, <HI>Who,</HI> were the <HI>We,</HI> which did the&s;e things? And whether, the <HI>Indians,</HI> who were Extremely under the Influence of St. <HI>Ca&s;teen,</HI> that had Mar|ried a Sagamores Daughter among them, did not from this very Moment begin to be ob&s;tre|perous? And, whether all the Sober Engli&s;h in the Country, did not from this very Moment, foretel a <HI>War?</HI> But for any An&s;wer to all the&s;e Enquiries, I will be my &s;elf a <HI>Tacitus.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. II.</HI> The fir&s;t Acts of Ho&s;tility, between the <HI>Indians,</HI> and the <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHen one Capt. <HI>Sargeant</HI> had Seized &s;ome of the principal <HI>Indians</HI> about <HI>Saco,</HI> by order of Ju&s;tice <HI>Blackman,</HI> pre&s;ently the <HI>Indians</HI> fell to Seizing as many of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> as they could catch. Capt. <HI>Rowden,</HI> with many more, in one place, and Capt. <HI>Gendal,</HI> with &s;undry more, in another place, particularly fell into the Hands of the&s;e de&s;perate <HI>Man catchers. Rowden,</HI> with many of his Folks, never got out of their
<PB N="23" REF="12"> Cruel Hands: but <HI>Gendal</HI> with his, got a Re|lea&s;e, one can &s;carce tell, <HI>How,</HI> upon the Re|turn of tho&s;e which had been detain'd in <HI>Boston.</HI> Hitherto there was no Spilling of <HI>Blood!</HI> But &s;ome Time in <HI>September</HI> following, this Capt. <HI>Gen|dal,</HI> went up, with Souldiers and others, to a place above <HI>Ca&s;co,</HI> called, <HI>North Yarmouth;</HI> having Orders to build <HI>Stockado's,</HI> on both &s;ides the Ri|ver, for Defence of the place, in ca&s;e of any Sud|den Inva&s;ion. While they were at work, an <HI>Engli&s;h Captive</HI> came to 'em, with Information, that Seventy or Eighty of the Enemy were ju&s;t coming upon 'em: and he advi&s;ed 'em, <HI>To yeeld quietly, that they might Save their Lives.</HI> The Souldiers that went thither from the Southward, being terrifyed at this Report, Ran with an Ha&s;ty Terror to get over the River; but with more <HI>Ha&s;t,</HI> than <HI>Good Speed;</HI> for they ran directly into the Hands of the <HI>Indians.</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> dragging along the&s;e their Pri&s;oners with 'em, came up to|wards the <HI>Ca&s;conians;</HI> who, having but a very Little Time to Con&s;ult, yet in this Time Re&s;olved; Fir&s;t, <HI>That they would not be Seized by the Salvages;</HI> Next, <HI>That they would free their Friends out of the Hands of the Salvages, if it were po&s;&s;ible;</HI> Thirdly, <HI>That if it were po&s;&s;ible, they would u&s;e all other Force upon the Salvages, without coming to down right Fight.</HI> Accordingly, They laid hold on their Neighbours, whom the <HI>Salvages</HI> had Seized, and this with &s;o much Dexterity, that
<PB N="24" REF="13"> they cleared them all, Except one or Two; whereof the whole Number was about a <HI>Dozen.</HI> But in the <HI>Scuffle,</HI> one Sturdy and Surly <HI>Indian,</HI> held his prey &s;o fa&s;t, that one <HI>Benedict Pulcifer,</HI> gave the <HI>Mastiff</HI> a Blow, with the Edge of his <HI>Broad Ax</HI> upon the Shoulder, upon which they fell to't with a Vengeance, and Fired their <HI>Guns,</HI> on both &s;ides, till &s;ome on both &s;ides were Slain. The&s;e were, as one may call them, <HI>The Scower-pit,</HI> of a long <HI>War</HI> to follow. At la&s;t, the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> Victoriou&s;ly cha&s;ed away the Salvage<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Re|turned &s;afely unto the other &s;ide of the River. And Thus was the <HI>Vein</HI> of <HI>New England</HI> fir&s;t o|pened, that afterwards <HI>Bled</HI> for Ten years toge|ther! The Skirmi&s;h being over, Capt. <HI>Gendal,</HI> in the Evening, pa&s;&s;ed over the River, in a Ca|noo, with none but a Servant; but Landing where the Enemy lay hid in the Bu&s;hes, they were both Slain immediately. And the &s;ame Evening, one <HI>Ryal,</HI> with another man, fell un|awares into the Hands of the Enemy; <HI>Ryal</HI> was afterwards Ran&s;omed, by Mon&s;ieur St. <HI>Ca&s;teen,</HI> but the other man, was barbarou&s;ly Butchered. Soon after this, the Enemy went Ea&s;tward, unto a place call'd, <HI>Merry-Meeting,</HI> (from the Con|cour&s;e of diver&s;e Rivers there,) where &s;everal Engli&s;h had a <HI>Sad Meeting</HI> with them; for they were killed, &s;everal of them even in Cold Blood, after the <HI>Indians</HI> had Seized upon their Hou&s;es &amp; their Per&s;ons. And about this Time, the Town
<PB N="25" REF="13"> call'd <HI>Sheep&s;cote,</HI> was entred by the&s;e Rapacious <HI>Wolves;</HI> who burnt all the Hou&s;es of the Town, &s;ave Two or Three. The People &s;aved them|&s;elves by getting into the Fort, all but one Man, who going out of the Fort, for to Treat with 'em, was Treacherou&s;ly A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inated. Thus the place, which was counted, <HI>The Garden of the East,</HI> was infe&s;ted by <HI>Serpents;</HI> and a <HI>Sword</HI> Expell'd the poor Inhabitants. Little more Spoil was done by the <HI>Salvages</HI> before <HI>Winter,</HI> Except only, that at a place called <HI>Kennebunk,</HI> near <HI>Winter harbour,</HI> they cut off Two Families, to wit, <HI>Barrows,</HI> and <HI>Bu&s;&s;ies;</HI> but <HI>Winter</HI> coming on, the <HI>Serpents</HI> retired into their Holes. When <HI>Summer</HI> comes, Reader, look for <HI>Tornadoes</HI> enough to over-&s;et a greater Ve&s;&s;el, than little <HI>New-England.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>ARTICLE. III. <HI>The</HI> Fir&s;t Expedition <HI>of the</HI> Engli&s;h, <HI>again&s;t the</HI> Indians.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the Keeper of the Wild Bea&s;ts, at <HI>Florence,</HI> ha's entertain'd the Spectators, with their Encounters on the Stage, he ha's this Device to make 'em Retire into the &s;everal <HI>Dens</HI> of their <HI>Seraglio.</HI> He ha's a fearful <HI>Machin</HI> of Wood, made like a Gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t <HI>Green Dragon,</HI> which a man within it roules upon Wheels, and holding out a Couple of Lighted Torches at the Eyes of
<PB N="26" REF="14"> it, frights the fierce&s;t Bea&s;t of them all, into the Cell that belongs unto him. Sir <HI>Edmond Andros,</HI> the Governour of <HI>New-England,</HI> that he might Expre&s;s his Re&s;olutions, to force the Wild Bea&s;ts of the Ea&s;t into order, in the <HI>Winter</HI> now come|ing on, turned upon them as Effectual a <HI>Machin,</HI> as the <HI>Green Dragon</HI> of <HI>Florence;</HI> that is to &s;ay, An Army of near a Thou&s;and men. With this Army, he marched him&s;elf in Per&s;on, into the <HI>Cauca&s;aean</HI> Regions, where he built a Fort at <HI>Pemmaquid,</HI> and another Fort at <HI>Pechyp&s;cot</HI> Falls, be&s;ides the Fort at <HI>Sheep&s;cote.</HI> He, and his <HI>Army,</HI> underwent no little Hard &s;hip, thus in the Depth of <HI>Winter</HI> to Expo&s;e them&s;elves unto the Cir|cum&s;tances of a <HI>Campaign,</HI> in all the Bleak <HI>Winds</HI> and Thick <HI>Snows</HI> of that Northern Country. But it was Hop'd, That Good <HI>Forts,</HI> being thus Garri&s;on'd with Stout <HI>Hearts,</HI> in &s;everal Conve|nient places, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">he Indians might be kept from their u&s;ual Retreats, both for <HI>Planting,</HI> and for <HI>Fi&s;hing,</HI> and lye open al&s;o to perpetual Incur&s;ions from the Engli&s;h, in the fitte&s;t &s;ea&s;ons thereof: And it was Thought by the mo&s;t &s;en&s;ible, this method would in a little while compel the Enemy to Submit unto any Terms: albeit others con&s;ide|ring the Va&s;t Woods of the Wilderne&s;s, and the French on the back of the&s;e Woods, fancied, that this was but a project to <HI>Hedge in the Cuckow.</HI> However, partly the <HI>Army,</HI> and partly the <HI>Win|ter,</HI> frighted the <HI>Salvages,</HI> into their Inacce&s;&s;ible
<PB N="27" REF="14"> <HI>Dens:</HI> &amp; yet not one of the <HI>Indians</HI> was killed; but Sickne&s;s, &amp; Service, kill'd it may be more of our <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> than there were <HI>Indians</HI> then in Ho|&s;tility again&s;t them. The News of matters ap|proaching towards a REVOLUTION in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> cau&s;ed the Governour to Return unto <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> in the Spring; &amp; upon his Return, there fell out &s;everal odd Events, with <HI>Rumours,</HI> where|of I have now nothing to &s;ay, but, That <HI>I love my Eyes too well,</HI> to mention them. Some of the <HI>Souldiers,</HI> took Advantage, from the Ab&s;ence of the Governour, to de&s;ert their <HI>Stations</HI> in the Army; and tho' this Action, was by <HI>Good men</HI> generally condemned, as an <HI>Evil Action,</HI> yet their Friends began to gather together here and there in Little Bodies, to protect them from the Gover|nour, concerning whom, abundance of odd Sto|ries then buzz'd about the Country made 'em to imagine, that he had carried 'em out, only to Sacrifice 'em. Some of the principal Gen|tlemen in <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> con&s;ulting what was to be done, in this Extraordinary Juncture, They A|greed, that altho' <HI>New-England</HI> had as much to Ju&s;tify a <HI>Revolution</HI> as <HI>old,</HI> yet they would, if it were po&s;&s;ible, extingui&s;h all E&s;&s;ayes in the people, towards an <HI>In&s;urrection;</HI> in daily hopes of Orders from <HI>England</HI> for our Safety: but that if the Country people, by any unre&s;trainable Violen|ces pu&s;hed the bu&s;ine&s;s on &s;o far, as to make a <HI>Revolution</HI> unavoidable, Then, to prevent the
<PB N="28" REF="15"> Shedding of <HI>Blood</HI> by an ungoverned <HI>Mobile,</HI> &s;ome of the Gentlemen pre&s;ent, &s;hould appear at the Head of it, with a <HI>Declaration</HI> accordingly prepared. He that Reads the <HI>Narrative of Grie|vances</HI> under the Male Admini&s;trations of the Government then Tyrannizing. Written and Signed by the Chief Gentlemen of the <HI>Gover|nours Council,</HI> will not wonder at it, that a <HI>Revo|lution</HI> was now rendred indeed unavoidable. It was a Government whereof <HI>Ned Randolph,</HI> a Bird of their own Feather, confe&s;s'd, as we find in one of his publi&s;hed Letters, <HI>That they were as Arbitrary as the Great Turk.</HI> And for &s;uch a Go|vernment, a better Similitude cannot perhaps be thought on, than that of Mon&s;r <HI>Souligne; 'Tis like the Condition of per&s;ons po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with Evil Spirits, which will go an Hundred Leagues in le&s;s time than others can Ten; but at the Journies End find them|&s;elves to be &s;o Brui&s;ed that they never can Recover it.</HI> The <HI>Revolution,</HI> (and, ye <HI>Tories,</HI> a <HI>Ju&s;t</HI> one) was accordingly <HI>Made,</HI> on the Eighteenth of <HI>April;</HI> which Their Maje&s;ties, then happily Seated on the Briti&s;h Throne, kindly Accepted and Approved. The <HI>Governour</HI> and <HI>Magi&s;trates</HI> of the <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;etts</HI> Colony, which were in pow|er <HI>Three years and Half</HI> before, [a period often ob&s;erved!] did &s;ome Time after this Re&s;ume their places, and apply them&s;elves to &s;uch <HI>Acts of Government,</HI> as Emergencies made nece&s;&s;ary for them, Fortifyed with a Letter from the <HI>King,</HI>
<PB N="29" REF="15"> to <HI>Authorize and Empower them in their Admini|&s;trations.</HI> Thus they waited for further Di|rections from the Authority of <HI>England,</HI> and &s;uch a <HI>Settlement,</HI> as would <HI>most Conduce</HI> (which were the words of the Kings Letter, bearing Date, <HI>Aug.</HI> 12 1689.) <HI>to the Security and Satisfaction of the Subjects in that Colony.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. IV.</HI> A <HI>Flame Spreading,</HI> upon the best Endeavours to Quench it.</HEAD>
<P>IT was hop'd, the <HI>War</HI> would now come to an Immediate End; but the Great God, who <HI>Creates that Evil,</HI> had further Intentions to Cha&s;|ti&s;e a <HI>Sinful People,</HI> by tho&s;e who are <HI>not a People.</HI> The Government &s;ent Capt. <HI>Greenleaf,</HI> to treat with the <HI>Indians</HI> at <HI>Penacook,</HI> who an&s;wered him with fair pretences and Promi&s;es of Amity. They procured an Interview, with &s;ome of the more Ea&s;tern <HI>Sagamores,</HI> who not only promi&s;ed <HI>Friend|&s;hip</HI> them&s;elves, but al&s;o undertook to make our <HI>Enemies</HI> become our <HI>Friends.</HI> They &s;ent unto the Souldiers, yet remaining at <HI>Pemmaquid,</HI> for to keep their <HI>Po&s;t,</HI> Engaging to them that they &s;hould not want their <HI>Pay.</HI> But all this care, was defeated by <HI>Methods</HI> of <HI>Mi&s;chiefs,</HI> too deep for our pre&s;ent penetration. The Salvages, be|gan to Renew their Ho&s;tilities, at <HI>Saco</HI> Falls, in
<PB N="30" REF="16"> the Beginning of <HI>April,</HI> on a <HI>Lords day</HI> morning, &s;ome while before the <HI>Revolution.</HI> The <HI>Penacook</HI> Indians, were all this while peaceably Conver|&s;ant at <HI>Quochecho;</HI> and &s;o long as that Conver&s;a|tion continued, the Inhabitants were very Secure, of any Danger, not only from tho&s;e <HI>Cut-throats,</HI> but al&s;o from their <HI>Brethren.</HI> Happy had it been for tho&s;e Hone&s;t People, if their <HI>Fear,</HI> had made &s;o much Ha&s;t, as my <HI>Pen</HI> ha's done, to call 'em <HI>Cut throats!</HI> For, the <HI>Penacookian</HI> joining with the <HI>Saconian</HI> Indians, hovered about <HI>Quochecho,</HI> where one <HI>Me&s;andowit,</HI> a <HI>Sagamore,</HI> being that Night kindly Entertained by Major <HI>Richard Waldein,</HI> horribly betray'd his kind Ho&s;t, with the Neigh|bours into the hands of Murderers. Above an Hundred, &s;ome &s;ay Five Hundred of the <HI>Indians,</HI> about break of Day, having Surprized the Secure and Silent <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> they particularly ru&s;hed into the Garri&s;on of the Generous Major, which was by <HI>Sinon Me&s;andowit</HI> (for, be&s;towing a <HI>Heathen Name</HI> upon him, we'l now call him <HI>&s;o,</HI>) opened for them, and having fir&s;t barbarou&s;ly Murdered the Old Gentleman, who was Aequivalent unto <HI>Two and Twenty,</HI> they then Murdered Two and Twenty more, and Captived Nine and Twenty of the People; burn't four or five of the be&s;t Hou&s;es, took much Plunder, and &s;o drew off: but kill'd Mr. <HI>John Broughton</HI> in their drawing off: while Mr. <HI>John Emmer&s;on,</HI> a worthy Preach|er at <HI>Barwick,</HI> by declining to lodge at the Ho&s;pi|table
<PB N="31" REF="16"> Majors, that Night, when &s;trongly Invited, received a remarkable Deliverance. Hereupon, Forces were di&s;patch'd for the Relief of what Remained in <HI>Quochecho;</HI> Capt. <HI>Noyes</HI> al&s;o with more Forces, vi&s;ited <HI>Penacook,</HI> where though the <HI>Men</HI> e&s;caped him, he de&s;troy'd the <HI>Corn</HI> of our New Enemies: but the Skulking Enemies, at the &s;ame Time Slew &s;everal Per&s;ons at an out-farm, on the North-&s;ide of <HI>Mer|rimack</HI> River. A party of men, were &s;oon after &s;ent out of <HI>Pi&s;cataqua,</HI> under the Command of Capt. <HI>Wincal,</HI> who went up to <HI>Winnopi&s;&s;eag</HI> ponds, (upon Advice of one <HI>John Church,</HI> who ran from them, that the <HI>Indians</HI> were there:) where they kill'd One or Two of the <HI>Monsters</HI> they <HI>Hunted</HI> for, and cut down their <HI>Corn.</HI> Four young men of <HI>Saco,</HI> de&s;irous to joyn with them, went into the woods to <HI>Seek</HI> their <HI>Hor&s;es,</HI> and <HI>Found</HI> their <HI>Deaths,</HI> by an Ambu&s;h of <HI>Indians.</HI> Twenty Four Armed men, going forth from <HI>Saco Falls,</HI> to bury the Slain, had a brisk Encounter with the <HI>Indians,</HI> whom they pur&s;ued into a Va&s;t <HI>Swamp,</HI> until a Greater Number of <HI>Indians</HI> pouring in upon them, obliged 'em with the lo&s;s of about Five or Six more, to Retire from any further Action. But before the <HI>Dog dayes</HI> were out, there was more <HI>Bleeding</HI> &s;till, that prov'd fatal to us. On <HI>Aug.</HI> 2. One <HI>Starky,</HI> going early in the Morning, from the Fort at <HI>Pemmaquid,</HI> unto New Harbour, fell into the Hands of the <HI>Indians,</HI> who to obtain
<PB N="32" REF="17"> his own Liberty, informed Them, That the Fort had at that In&s;tant, but Few men in it: and that one Mr. <HI>Giles,</HI> with Fourteen men, was gone up to his Farm, and the re&s;t Scattered abroad, about their Occa&s;ions The <HI>Indians</HI> hereupon divided their Army; <HI>Part</HI> going up to the Falls, kill'd Mr. <HI>Giles,</HI> and others; <HI>Part,</HI> upon the Advantage of the Tide, Snapt the re&s;t, before they could Recover the Fort. From a Rock near the Fort, which inconveniently over look'd it, the A&s;&s;ailants now over look'd it, <HI>as over Lincoln,</HI> and grievou&s;ly galled the Defendents. Capt. <HI>Weems,</HI> had but few with him, that were able to <HI>Fight;</HI> and his own Face, was in the <HI>Fight</HI> by an Acci|dent, horribly Scorched with Gun Powder. Wherefore, the day following, they Surrendred the Fort, upon Capitulations for Life and Liber|ty; which yet the <HI>Indians</HI> broke, by Butchering and Captiving many of them. Capt. <HI>Skynner</HI> &amp; Capt. <HI>Farnham,</HI> repairing to the Fort, from an I&s;land about half a Mile di&s;tant from it, were both Slain, as they Landed on the Rocks; and Mr. <HI>Pati&s;hal,</HI> as he lay with his Sloop in the <HI>Bar|bican,</HI> was al&s;o taken and Slain. This, together with more Spoil done by the <HI>Indians</HI> on the <HI>Eng|li&s;h,</HI> at <HI>Sheep&s;cote,</HI> and <HI>Kennebeck,</HI> and other places Ea&s;t-ward, cau&s;ed the Inhabitants to draw off unto <HI>Falmouth</HI> as fa&s;t as they could: and, Well if they could have made Good their <HI>Standing</HI> there!</P>
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<PB N="33" REF="17">
<HEAD>MANTISSA.</HEAD>
<P>THE Foregoing Article of our <HI>Tragaedies,</HI> hath Related the Taking of <HI>Quochecho!</HI> The Condition of Two per&s;ons, under and after the Fate of <HI>Quochecho,</HI> may have in it, an Entertain|ment Aceeptable for &s;ome &s;ort of Readers. It &s;hall be in this place Reported, from the Com|munications of Mr. <HI>John Pike,</HI> the worthy Mi|ni&s;ter of <HI>Dover;</HI> to whom I have been beholden, for Communicating to me, many other pa&s;&s;ages al&s;o, which occur in this our Hi&s;tory.</P>
<P N="1"><HI>I.</HI> Mrs. <HI>Elizabeth Heard,</HI> a Widow of a Good E&s;tate, a Mother of many Children, and a Daughter of Mr. <HI>Hull,</HI> a Reverend Mini&s;ter for|merly Living at <HI>Pi&s;cataqua,</HI> now Lived at <HI>Quoche|cho.</HI> Happening to be at <HI>Port&s;mouth,</HI> on the Day before <HI>Quochecho</HI> was cut off, She Returned thi|ther in the Night, with one Daughter, and Three Sons all ma&s;ters of Families. When they came near <HI>Quochecho,</HI> they were a&s;toni&s;hed, with a pro|digious Noi&s;e of <HI>Indians,</HI> Howling, Shooting, Shouting, and Roaring, according to their man|ner in making an A&s;&s;ault. Their Di&s;tre&s;s for their Families carried them &s;till further up the River, till they Secretly and Silently pa&s;&s;ed by &s;ome Numbers of the Raging Salvages. They Landed about an Hundred Rods from Ma|jor
<PB N="34" REF="18"> <HI>Walderns</HI> Garri&s;on; and running up the Hill, they &s;aw many Lights in the Windows of the Garri&s;on, which they concluded, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> within had &s;et up, for the Direction of tho&s;e who might &s;eek a Refuge there. Coming to the Gate, they de&s;ired entrance; which not be|ing readily granted, they called Earne&s;tly and bounced, and knocked, and cryed out of their unkindne&s;s within, that they would not open to them in this Extremity. No An&s;wer being yet made, they began to doubt, whether all was well; and one of the young men then climbing up the Wall, &s;aw a horrible Tawny in the En|try, with a Gun in his Hand. A grievous Con|&s;ternation Siez'd now upon them; and Mrs. <HI>Heard,</HI> &s;itting down without the Gate, through Di&s;pair and Faintne&s;s, unable to Stir any fur|ther, charg'd her Children to Shift for them|&s;elves, for She mu&s;t unavoidably <HI>There</HI> End her Dayes. They finding it impo&s;&s;ible to carry her with them, with heavy hearts for&s;ook her; but then coming better to her &s;elf, &s;he fled and hid among the <HI>Barberry-Bu&s;hes</HI> in the Garden: and then ha&s;tning from thence, becau&s;e the Day-Light advanced, She &s;heltned her &s;elf (though &s;een by Two of the <HI>Indians,</HI>) in a Thicket of other Bu&s;hes, about Thirty Rods from the Hou&s;e. Here &s;he had not been long, before an <HI>Indian</HI> came towards her, with a Pi&s;tol in his Hand: The Fellow came up to her, and Stared
<PB N="35" REF="18"> her in the Face, but &s;aid nothing to her, nor &s;he to him. He went a little way back, and came again, and Stared upon her as before, but &s;aid nothing; whereupon &s;he asked him, <HI>What he would have?</HI> He &s;till &s;aid nothing, but went a|way to the Hou&s;e, Co hooping, and Returned unto her no more. Being thus unaccountably pre&s;erved, She made &s;everal E&s;&s;ays to pa&s;s the River; but &s;ound her &s;elf unable to do it; and finding all places on that &s;ide the River, fill'd with Blood and Fire, and hideous Out cryes, thereupon &s;he Returned to her old <HI>Bu&s;h,</HI> and there poured out her ardent Prayers to God, for help in this Di&s;tre&s;s. She continued in the <HI>Bu&s;h,</HI> until the Garri&s;on was Burnt, and the Enemy was gone; and then &s;he Stole along by the Ri|ver &s;ide, until &s;he came to a Boom, where &s;he pa&s;&s;ed over. Many &s;ad Effects of Cruelty, &s;he Saw left by the <HI>Indians,</HI> in her way; until ar|riving at Captain <HI>Gerri&s;hes</HI> Garri&s;on, &s;he there found a Refuge from the Storm; and here &s;he &s;oon had the Satisfaction, to under&s;tand, that her own Garri&s;on, though one of the fir&s;t that was a&s;&s;aulted, had been bravely Defended and mentained, again&s;t the Adver&s;ary. This Gen|tlewomans Garri&s;on, was the mo&s;t Etxreme Frontier of the Province, and more Obnoxious than any other, and more uncapable of Relief; neverthele&s;s, by her pre&s;ence and courage, it held out all the <HI>War,</HI> even for <HI>Ten Years</HI> together;
<PB N="36" REF="19"> and the Per&s;ons in it, have Enjoy'd very Emi|nent pre&s;ervations. The Garri&s;on had been de|&s;erted, if <HI>She</HI> had accepted Offers that were made her b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> her Friends, or Living in more &s;afety at <HI>Port&s;mouth;</HI> which would have been a Damage to the Town and Land: but by her Encourage|ment this Po&s;t was thus kept; and She is yet Living in much E&s;teem among her Neighbours.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> Mrs. <HI>Sarah Geri&s;h,</HI> Daughter to Captain <HI>John Geri&s;h</HI> of <HI>Quochecho,</HI> a very Beautiful and In|genious Dam&s;el about Seven years of Age, lodg'd at the Garri&s;on of her affectionate Grand-father, Major <HI>Waldern,</HI> when the Indians brought an horrible De&s;truction upon it. She was alwayes very Fearful of the <HI>Indians;</HI> but what Fear may we think now Surpri&s;ed her, when they fiercely bid her go into &s;uch a Chamber, and call the People out? Finding only a little Child in the Chamber, &s;he got into the Bed unto the Child, and hid her &s;elf in the Cloathes, as well as &s;he could. The Fell Salvages quickly pull'd her out, and made her Dre&s;s for a March, but led her a|way with no more than one Stockin upon her, a terrible March, through the Thick Woods, and a thou&s;and other Mi&s;eries, till they came to the <HI>Norway Plains.</HI> From thence they made her go to the end of <HI>Winnopi&s;&s;eag</HI> Lake, and from thence to the Ea&s;tward, through horrid Swamps, where &s;ometimes they mu&s;t Scramble over huge Trees
<PB N="37" REF="19"> fallen by Storm or Age, for a va&s;t way together, and &s;ome times they mu&s;t Climb up long, &s;teep, tire&s;ome, and almo&s;t Inacce&s;&s;ible Mountains. Her Fir&s;t Ma&s;ter was one <HI>Sebundowit,</HI> a Dull &s;ort of a Fellow, and not &s;uch a <HI>Devil</HI> as many of 'em were; but he Sold her, to a Fellow that was a more har&s;h, and mad, &s;ort of a <HI>Dragon;</HI> and he carried her away to <HI>Canada.</HI></P>
<P>A long and a &s;ad Journey &s;he had of it, thro' the mid&s;t of an hideous <HI>De&s;art,</HI> in the mid&s;t of a dreadful <HI>Winter:</HI> And who can enumerate the Frights, that &s;he endured, before the End of her Journey? Once her Ma&s;ter commanded her to loo&s;en &s;ome of her upper-Garments, and &s;tand again&s;t a Tree, while he charged his Gun; whereat the poor Child Shrieked out, <HI>He's going to kill me!</HI> God knows what he was going to do; but the Villian having charged his Gun, he call'd her from the Tree, and forbore doing her any Damage. Another Time, her Ma&s;ter or|dered her to run along the Shore with &s;ome In|dian Girls, while he paddled up the River in his Canoo. As they were upon a praecipice, a Tawny Wench violently pu&s;h'd her Head long into the River: But it &s;o fell out, that in that very place, the <HI>Bu&s;hes</HI> hung over the <HI>Water;</HI> &s;o that getting Hold of them, &s;he Recovered her &s;elf. The Indians ask'd her. How &s;he became &s;o wet? but &s;he dur&s;t not &s;ay, How; through Dread of the young Indians, who were alwayes
<PB N="38" REF="20"> very Abu&s;ive to her, when they had her alone. Moreover, once being &s;pent with Travelling all Day, and lying down Spent and Wet at Night, She fell into into &s;o profound a Sleep, that in the Morning &s;he waked not. The Barbarous Indians left her <HI>A&s;leep,</HI> and covered with <HI>Snow;</HI> but at length waking, what Agonies may you imagine &s;he was in, to find her &s;elf left a prey for <HI>Bears</HI> and <HI>Wolves,</HI> and without any Su&s;te|nance, in an howling Wilderne&s;s many Scores of Leagues, from any Plantation? She Ran crying after them; and Providence having ordered a <HI>Snow</HI> to fall, by means thereof, &s;he Track'd them until &s;he overtook them. Now the young Indians began to Terrify her, with daily Intima|tions, <HI>That &s;he was quickly to be Roa&s;ted unto Death;</HI> and one Evening, much Fuel was prepared, be|tween Two Logs, which they told her, was for <HI>her.</HI> A mighty Fire being made, her Ma&s;ter call'd her to him, and told her, that &s;he &s;hould pre&s;ently be Burnt alive. At fir&s;t, &s;he &s;tood Amazed; afterwards &s;he bur&s;t into Tears; and then &s;he hung about the Tygre, and begg'd of him, with an inexpre&s;&s;ible Angui&s;h, that he would Save her from the Fire. Hereupon the Mon&s;ter &s;o Relented, as to tell her, <HI>That if &s;he would be a Good Girl, &s;he &s;hould not be Burnt.</HI></P>
<P>At la&s;t, they arrived at <HI>Canada,</HI> and &s;he was carried unto the <HI>Lord Intendants</HI> Hou&s;e, where many Per&s;ons of Quality took much notice of her.
<PB N="39" REF="20"> It was a Week after this, that &s;he remained in the <HI>Indian</HI> Hands, before the price of her Ran&s;ome could be agreed on. But then the <HI>Lady Inten|dant</HI> &s;ent her to the <HI>Nunnery,</HI> where &s;he was com|fortably provided for; and it was the De&s;ign, as was &s;aid, for to have brought her up, in the <HI>Ro|mi&s;h Religion,</HI> and then have Married her unto the Son of the <HI>Lord Intendant.</HI> She was kindly u&s;ed there, until Sir <HI>William Phipps</HI> lying before <HI>Quebeck,</HI> did upon Exchange of Pri&s;oners, obtain her Liberty. After Sixteen Months Captivity, &s;he was Re&s;tored unto her Friends; who had the Con&s;olation of having this their De&s;ireable Daughter again with them, Returned from the <HI>Dead;</HI> But coming to be Sixteen years old, in the Month of <HI>July</HI> 1697. <HI>Death,</HI> by a malignant Feavour, more Irrecoverably took her from them.</P>
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<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>ARTICLE. V. <HI>New Forces</HI> Rais'd, and <HI>New Actions</HI> done.</HEAD>
<P>ON <HI>Aug.</HI> 28. 1689. Major <HI>Swayn</HI> with Seven or Eight Companies rai&s;ed by the <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu|&s;ett</HI> Colony, marched Ea&s;tward; and &s;oon af|ter, Major <HI>Church</HI> with a party of Engli&s;h, and <HI>Christian-Indians,</HI> rai&s;ed in <HI>Plymouth</HI> Colony, fol|low'd them. While the&s;e were on their March, the Indians, that lay Skulking after the Indian-fa&s;hion in the Thick Woods, took notice how
<PB N="40" REF="21"> many men, belong'd unto Lieut. <HI>Huckins's</HI> Garri|&s;on: and &s;eeing 'em all go out unto their daily work, nimbly ran &s;o between them and the Gar|ri&s;on, as to kill 'em all (about Eighteen) but one, who being accidentally gone over the River, e&s;caped them. They then Attacqued the Garri|&s;on, in which there now were only Two <HI>Boyes,</HI> (and one of <HI>them</HI> Lame) with &s;ome Women and Children; but the&s;e Two <HI>Boyes,</HI> very <HI>Man|fully</HI> held 'em in play a Con&s;iderable while, and wounded &s;everal of them, and kept 'em off, till the A&s;&s;ailants had found a way to &s;et the Hou&s;e on a Light Fire over their Heads. They then urging 'em to Surrender, for the &s;ake of the <HI>Goods,</HI> the <HI>Boyes, [Brave Boyes,</HI> truly!] would <HI>not,</HI> until they had Solemnly promi&s;ed 'em their <HI>Lives:</HI> but the perfidious Wretches broke their promi&s;e, for they pre&s;ently kill'd Three or Four of the Children: however one of the&s;e <HI>Minu|tius's,</HI> the Day after, very happily got out of thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Clutches. It was by a particular Accident, that the&s;e <HI>Indians,</HI> were delivered from falling into the Hands of Capt. <HI>Garner,</HI> who pur&s;ued 'em Vigorou&s;ly. But while the Forces now gone into the Ea&s;t, were Settling of <HI>Garri&s;ons</HI> in con|venient places, a huge Body of <HI>Indians,</HI> fell upon <HI>Ca&s;co,</HI> where one of their fir&s;t Exploits, was their killing of Capt. <HI>Bracket.</HI> Ne|verthele&s;s, Capt. <HI>Hall,</HI> (a valiant <HI>Souldier</HI> in the Former War, and a valiant <HI>Commander</HI> in <HI>This</HI>)
<PB N="41" REF="21"> with his Vigorous Lieutenant <HI>Dawes,</HI> ju&s;t then arriving with his Company, the Engli&s;h hotly Engaged them for &s;everal Hours; and after a deal of true Engli&s;h Valour di&s;covered in this Engagement, and the lo&s;s of Ten or a Dozen men, the <HI>Indians</HI> Ran for it, with <HI>What</HI> lo&s;s on their part, we do <HI>not</HI> know: <HI>that</HI> with <HI>Some</HI> we <HI>Do.</HI> Pre&s;ently after this, Major <HI>Swayn,</HI> pa&s;s|ing through Extreme Difficulties to get at it, gave &s;ome Relief to a Garri&s;on at <HI>Blue point,</HI> which was be&s;et by the <HI>Indians;</HI> who &s;till Fled into their Inacce&s;&s;ible <HI>Swamps,</HI> when our Bullets began to be Hail'd upon them. It was judg'd, That here one or <HI>Two Opportunities,</HI> of bringing the War unto an End, were &s;trangely mi&s;t, and lo&s;t: but where the <HI>mi&s;management</HI> lay, <HI>I cannot Remember:</HI> nor what were the <HI>Faux Pas</HI> of the Actors. Our <HI>Hone&s;t Major</HI> will clear him&s;elf, who Returning then to his Head Quarters at <HI>Berwick,</HI> &s;ent abroad <HI>Scouts,</HI> to Learn, if it were po&s;&s;ible, where they might have the <HI>be&s;t Game,</HI> at the <HI>Cha&s;&s;e a La Bete noire,</HI> then to be followed. Capt. <HI>Wi&s;wel</HI> having with him, a party of <HI>Indian</HI> Auxiliaries, <HI>they</HI> were &s;ent out, under the Con|duct of Lieu. <HI>Flag:</HI> but coming to <HI>Winnopi&s;&s;eag,</HI> the&s;e <HI>Indians,</HI> had a Con&s;ult in their own Lan|guage, and Sending back their Lieutenant, with Two <HI>Indians,</HI> Nineteen of them Stai'd in that Countrey Eleven Dayes, not having any Engli&s;h with them: at which the Major was ju&s;tly, and
<PB N="42" REF="22"> greatly offended. It was then <HI>Su&s;pected,</HI> and af|terwards (by E&s;cap'd Captives) <HI>A&s;&s;erted,</HI> that the&s;e Wretches, found the Enemy, and Lodg'd with 'em Two Nights, and told 'em what they knew of the Engli&s;h Numbers and Motions. The Enemy then Retired into the howling De|&s;arts, where there was no Coming at them: &amp; no Endeavours being able to reach them, the Army, in the Month of <HI>November</HI> following was Di&s;mi&s;&s;ed: only &s;ome Souldiers were left in Garri&s;on at <HI>Wells,</HI> at <HI>York,</HI> at <HI>Barwick,</HI> and at <HI>Quechecho,</HI> for the A&s;&s;i&s;tence of the poor Inhabi|tants, again&s;t any more Inva&s;ions. There ha's been little Doubt, That our Northern Indians are Originally <HI>Scythians,</HI> and it is become le&s;s a Doubt, &s;ince it appears from later Di&s;coveries, That the pretended Straits of <HI>Anian</HI> are a Sham; for <HI>A&s;ia</HI> and <HI>America,</HI> it &s;eems, are there Conti|guous. Now of the&s;e our <HI>Scythians</HI> in <HI>America,</HI> we have &s;till found, what <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar</HI> does re|port concerning Them of <HI>A&s;ia;</HI>
<Q>Difficilius Invenire quam Interficere:</Q></P>
<P>It is harder to <HI>Find</HI> them, than to <HI>Foil</HI> them.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>A Digre&s;&s;ion,</HI> Relating &s;ome Wonderful Judgments of God.</HEAD>
<P>BEfore we pa&s;s to another year, Stand &s;till, <HI>Reader,</HI> and <HI>Behold</HI> &s;ome <HI>Wonderful Events,</HI> proper <HI>here</HI> to be Introduced. The Relation thereof &s;hall be <HI>given,</HI> as I have <HI>Received</HI> it.</P>
<P><HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> Feb. 27. 1698, 9.</P>
<PB N="43" REF="22">
<Q REND="margQuotes"><P>MOn&s;ieur <HI>Vincelotte</HI> of <HI>Quebeck,</HI> arrived here, the 25th. of the la&s;t Month, and &s;ince Embarked for <HI>France,</HI> by way of <HI>Bilboa,</HI> as A|gent to Repre&s;ent the Affairs of <HI>Canada.</HI></P>
<P>He &s;ayes, That about Nine or Ten years &s;ince, the Earl of <HI>Frontenac,</HI> Governour of that place (who dyed la&s;t <HI>November,</HI>) did per&s;onally Attempt to Subdue, the <HI>Maquas, &amp;c.</HI> having no le&s;s than <HI>Fifteen Hundred</HI> Souldiers in his Army.</P>
<P>After a few Dayes March, they (being much <HI>Wearied</HI> and very <HI>Thir&s;ty</HI>) came unto a certain &s;mall <HI>Well,</HI> of which they drank very plentifully. But in a few Hours after, &s;undry complained of much <HI>Illne&s;s,</HI> and according to their <HI>various Con&s;titutions</HI> fell Sick (as it &s;eem'd) of <HI>different Distempers;</HI> which occa&s;ioned &s;o great Di&s;order and Confu&s;ion in the Army, that no le&s;s than <HI>Four</HI> well men, for a while, were Engaged in taking care of every <HI>one</HI> that was Sick. About Three Dayes after, the <HI>Ma|qua</HI> Scout, narrowly ob&s;erving the Motions of the <HI>French,</HI> rallyed together, as many as po&s;&s;ible, to give a Check unto their Undertaking; which they &s;oon accompli&s;hed, with very con|&s;iderable Advantage. But the <HI>French</HI> appearing &s;o Numerous, forced them to Retreat, and in pur&s;uit of them, took and ran&s;ackt a <HI>Small Town.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Sickne&s;s</HI> by this Time increa&s;ed unto &s;o great an Height, as to occa&s;ion a <HI>Council of War,</HI> which ordered their &s;peedy Return; and in a
<PB N="44" REF="23"> &s;hort Time, no Le&s;s than <HI>Eight Hundred</HI> per|&s;ons Dyed out of the Army.</P>
<P>Now about <HI>Three Years</HI> ago, a certain Soul|dier, who belong'd at that Time to the Army, went into <HI>France.</HI> In a &s;hort Time after his Arrival, he <HI>Robb'd</HI> one of the <HI>Churches,</HI> of a con&s;iderable value of <HI>Plate;</HI> but being &s;oon di&s;covered, he was Sentenced to be <HI>Burnt:</HI> He then &s;ent unto &s;undry <HI>Father-Confe&s;&s;ors,</HI> unto whom he acknowledged his <HI>many Sins;</HI> parti|cularly, that <HI>Fact</HI> for which he was Condemn|ed. But he therewithal &s;aid, That he had <HI>&s;omething el&s;e</HI> of more con&s;iderable moment to Impart, which did much afflict his Con&s;cience; Namely, an Action of his, about <HI>Seven</HI> Years before committed, when Li&s;ted under the Conduct of the Earl of <HI>Frontenac,</HI> in an Enter|prize again&s;t the <HI>Sennakers</HI> and <HI>Maquas'; For,</HI> &s;aid he) <HI>I was the only per&s;on at that Time In|&s;trumental to the Death of near Eight Hundred Souls. Having Received &s;ome Affront, from &s;ome of the Officers, I was prompted to &s;eek &s;ome &s;peedy Revenge, which my own corrupt Nature with the Instigation of Satan, did in&s;tantly accompli&s;h; for being plentifully &s;tored with &s;ome Rank poi&s;on upon another account, I threw it all into a Well, of which the Thir&s;ty Army drank freely, and in the Event it proved &s;o fatal unto them.</HI></P>
<P>For the further Confirmation of this Report Mon&s;ieur <HI>Vincelotte</HI> at the &s;ame Time told me,
<PB N="45" REF="23"> That he was him&s;elf Wounded in the En|gagment, and &s;hould continue Lame to his Dying Day.</P></Q>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Reverend Sir,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t Humble Servant, <HI>S. Penhallow.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. VI.</HI> New A&s;&s;aults from the <HI>Indians,</HI> with &s;ome Re|markables of <HI>Captives</HI> taken in tho&s;e A&s;&s;aults.</HEAD>
<P>THE <HI>Sun,</HI> and the <HI>War,</HI> be again Returning! The year 1690. mu&s;t begin, very Inau&s;|piciou&s;ly. In <HI>February,</HI> the <HI>French,</HI> with <HI>Indians,</HI> made a De&s;cent from <HI>Canada,</HI> upon a Dutch Town called <HI>Schenectada,</HI> Twenty Miles above <HI>Albany</HI> under the Government of <HI>New York;</HI> and in that Surprizing Incur&s;ion, they killed about Sixty Per&s;ons, whereof one was their Mini&s;ter, and carried about Half as many into Captivity; but the People there, a&s;&s;i&s;ted by the <HI>Maqua's,</HI> pur&s;ued them, and Recovered &s;ome of their Captives from them. Upon the Advice of this Mi&s;chief in the <HI>We&s;t,</HI> order was di&s;patch'd unto Major <HI>Fro&s;t,</HI> in the <HI>East,</HI> that the Towns there &s;hould &s;tand upon their Guard. The Major did <HI>his</HI> Duty; but <HI>they</HI> did not Theirs: They Dream't that while the Deep Snow of the <HI>Win|ter</HI> continued, they were Safe enough; but this prov'd as Vain as a <HI>Dream of a Dry Summer.</HI>
<PB N="46" REF="24"> On <HI>March</HI> 18th. the <HI>French,</HI> with <HI>Indians,</HI> being Half one, Half t'other, Half Indianized French, and Half Frenchified Indians, commanded by Mon&s;ieur <HI>Artel,</HI> and <HI>Hope-hood,</HI> fell Suddenly upon <HI>Salmon Falls,</HI> de&s;troying the be&s;t part of the Town, with Fire and Sword. Near <HI>Thirty</HI> Per|&s;ons were Slain, and more than <HI>Fifty</HI> were led into what the Reader will by'nd by call, <HI>The wor&s;t Captivity in the World.</HI> It would be a <HI>Long</HI> Story to tell, what a particular Share in this Ca|lamity, fell to the Family of One <HI>Clement Short;</HI> This Hone&s;t Man, with his Pious Wife, and Three Children, were kill'd; and Six or Seven of their Children, were made Pri&s;oners: the mo&s;t of which arrived Safe to <HI>Canada,</HI> through a thou&s;and Hard&s;hips; and the mo&s;t of the&s;e were with more than a Thou&s;and Mercies after|wards Redeemed from <HI>Canada,</HI> unto their Eng|li&s;h Friends again. But my Readers, will be &s;o Rea&s;onable, as to Excu&s;e me, if I do not men|tion the Fate of every Family, that hath Suffer|ed a Share in the Calamity of this grievous <HI>War;</HI> for 'tis impo&s;&s;ible that I &s;hould <HI>Know All</HI> that hath happened; and it would be improper for me to <HI>Write All</HI> that I know: And very little is the Advantage of having a Name Standing upon Record, only among unhappy <HI>Sufferers.</HI> About Seven Score <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> went out after 'em, and came up with 'em: neverthele&s;s, through the Di&s;advantages of their <HI>Feet</HI> by the <HI>Snow,</HI> they
<PB N="47" REF="24"> could make no <HI>Hand</HI> on it. Four or Five of ours were kill'd, and as many of the Enemy; but the Night put an End unto the Action. Ours took one Pri&s;oner, a French man, who Con|fe&s;&s;ed, that they came from <HI>Canada,</HI> where both <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Indians,</HI> were in Pay, at Ten Livers <HI>Per</HI> Month, and he particularly Declared the State of <HI>Canada.</HI> This <HI>Pri&s;oner</HI> met with &s;uch kind u&s;age from us, that he became a <HI>Freeman of Chri&s;t,</HI> and Embraced and Profe&s;&s;ed the <HI>Prote|stant Religion.</HI> But of the Pri&s;oners, which the Enemy took from us, there were Two which immediately met with a very <HI>Different Fate. Three</HI> Indians hotly pur&s;ued one <HI>Thomas Toogood,</HI> and <HI>One</HI> of them overtaking him, while the re&s;t perceiving it, &s;taid behind the Hill, he yielded him&s;elf a Pri&s;oner. While the Salvage was get|ting <HI>Strings</HI> to bind him, he held his <HI>Gun</HI> under his Arm; which <HI>Toogood</HI> Ob&s;erving, Suddenly pluck't it from his Friend <HI>Stark Naught,</HI> Threatening and Prote&s;ting, that he would Shoot him down, if he made any Noi&s;e; and &s;o, A|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ay he ran with it, unto <HI>Quochecho.</HI> If my Rea|der be inclined now to Smile, when he thinks, how Simply poor <HI>Isgrim</HI> look'd, returning to his Mates behind the Hill, without either <HI>Gun,</HI> or <HI>Prey,</HI> or any thing but <HI>Strings,</HI> to Remember him of his <HI>own De&s;erts;</HI> the <HI>Smiles</HI> will all be pre&s;ent|ly turn'd into <HI>Tears.</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> had now made a Pri&s;oner of one <HI>Robert Rogers,</HI> and being
<PB N="48" REF="25"> on their Journey, they came to an Hill, where this man, being through his Corpulency, (for which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he was u&s;ually Nicknamed, <HI>Robin Pork</HI>) and an In&s;upportable and Intolerable <HI>Burden</HI> laid upon his Back, not &s;o able to Travel as the re&s;t, he Ab&s;conded. The Wretches mi&s;&s;ing him, im|mediately went in pur&s;uit of him; and it was not long before they found his <HI>Burden</HI> ca&s;t in the way, and the <HI>Track</HI> of his going out of the way, which they follow'd, until they found him hidden in an <HI>Hollow Tree.</HI> They Took him out, they Stript him, they beat him, and prickt him, and pu&s;h'd him forward with their Swords, un|til they were got back to the Hill; and it being almo&s;t Night, they fa&s;tned him to a Tree, with his Hands behind him, and made them&s;elves a Supper, Singing, Dancing, Roaring, and Urtering many Signs of <HI>Joy,</HI> but with <HI>Joy</HI> little enough to the poor Creature, who fore&s;aw, what all this Tended unto. They then cut a parcel of <HI>Wood,</HI> and bringing it into a plain place, they cut off the <HI>Top</HI> of a &s;mall <HI>Red Oak</HI> Tree, Leaving the <HI>Trunk</HI> for a <HI>Stake,</HI> whereto they bound their Sa|crifice. They fir&s;t made a Great Fire near this <HI>Tree of Death,</HI> and bringing him unto it, they bid him take his Leave of his Friends; which he did in a doleful manner; no Pen, though made of an <HI>Harpies</HI> Quill, were able to de&s;cribe the Dolour of it! They then allow'd him a lit|tle Time, to make his <HI>Prayers,</HI> unto Heaven;
<PB N="49" REF="25"> which he did with an Extreme Fervency and Agony: Where-upon they bound him to the Stake, and brought the re&s;t of the Pri&s;oners, with their Arms tyed each to other, &s;o &s;etting them round the <HI>Fire.</HI> This being done, they went be|hind the <HI>Fire,</HI> and thru&s;t it forwards upon the man, with much Laughter and Shouting; and when the <HI>Fire</HI> had burnt &s;ome while upon him, even till he was near Stiffled, they pull'd it again from him. They Danced about him, and at every Turn, they did with their knives, cut col|lops of his <HI>Fle&s;h,</HI> from his Naked Limbs, &amp; throw them with his Blood into his <HI>Face.</HI> When he was Dead, they &s;et his Body down upon the <HI>Glowing Coals,</HI> and left him Tyed with his Back to the Stake; where the Engli&s;h Army &s;oon af|ter found him. He was left for <HI>Us,</HI> to put out the <HI>Fire</HI> with our <HI>Tears!</HI></P>
<P>Reader, Who &s;hould be the <HI>Father</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Myrmidons?</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. VII.</HI> The Condition of the <HI>Captives,</HI> that from time to time fell into the Hands of the <HI>Indians:</HI> with &s;ome very Remarkable Accidents.</HEAD>
<P>WE have had <HI>Some</HI> Occa&s;ion, and &s;hall have <HI>More,</HI> to mention <HI>Captives,</HI> falling into the Hands of the <HI>Indians.</HI> We will here, without
<PB N="50" REF="26"> any thing worthy to be call'd <HI>A Digre&s;&s;ion,</HI> a little <HI>Stand Still,</HI> and with mournful <HI>Hearts,</HI> look upon the Condition of the <HI>Captives</HI> in tho&s;e cruel <HI>Hands.</HI> Their Condition truly might be Expre&s;s'd in the Terms of the ancient <HI>Lamentations,</HI> (thus by &s;ome Tran&s;lated,) Lam 4 3. <HI>The Daughter of my People, is in the Hands of the Cruel, that are like the O&s;trich in the Wilderne&s;s.</HI> Truly, the <HI>Dark places</HI> of <HI>New England,</HI> where the <HI>Indians</HI> had their Unapproacheable <HI>Kennels,</HI> were <HI>Habitations of Cruelty:</HI> and no words can Sufficiently de&s;cribe the <HI>Cruelty</HI> undergone by our <HI>Captives</HI> in tho&s;e <HI>Habitations.</HI> The <HI>Cold,</HI> and <HI>Heat,</HI> and <HI>Hunger,</HI> &amp; <HI>Wearine&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Mockings,</HI> and <HI>Scourgings,</HI> and <HI>In|&s;olencies,</HI> Endured by the <HI>Captives,</HI> would enough de&s;erve the Name of <HI>Cruelty;</HI> but there was this al&s;o added unto the re&s;t, that they mu&s;t ever now and then have their Friends made a <HI>Sacrifice of Devils</HI> before their Eyes, but be afraid of drop|ping a Tear from tho&s;e Eyes, le&s;t it &s;hould, upon that provocation, be next their own Turn, to be &s;o Barbarou&s;ly <HI>Sacrificed.</HI> Indeed &s;ome <HI>few</HI> of the <HI>Captives,</HI> did very happily E&s;cape from their Barbarous Oppre&s;&s;ors, by a <HI>Flight</HI> wi&s;ely manag|ed: and many <HI>more</HI> of them, were Bought by the <HI>French,</HI> who treated them with a Civility ever to be acknowledged, until care was taken to fetch 'em home. Neverthele&s;s, many Scores of them Dyed among the <HI>Indians;</HI> and what u&s;age they had, may be gathered from the following
<PB N="51" REF="26"> Relations, which I have obtained from Credible Witne&s;&s;es.</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>RELATION. I.</HEAD>
<P><HI>JAmes Key,</HI> Son to <HI>John Key</HI> of <HI>Quochecho,</HI> was a Child of about Five years of Age, taken Captive, by the <HI>Indians</HI> at <HI>Salmon Falls;</HI> and that Helli&s;h Fellow, <HI>Hope-Hood,</HI> once a Servant of a <HI>Chri&s;tian Master</HI> in <HI>Boston,</HI> was become the Ma&s;ter of this <HI>Little Chri&s;tian.</HI> This Child, Lamenting with Tears the want of his <HI>Parents,</HI> his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;ter Threatened him with Death, if he did no Re|frain his Tears; but the&s;e Threatenings could not Extingui&s;h the Natural Affections of a Child. Wherefore, upon his Next Lamentations, this Mon&s;ter Stript him Stark Naked, and la&s;h'd both his Hands round a Tree, and Scourg'd him, &s;o that from the Crown of his Head unto the Sole of his Foot, he was all over Bloody and Swollen: and when he was Tired with laying on his Blows, on the Forlorn Infant, he would lay him on the Ground, with Taunts remembring him of his Parents. In this mi&s;ery, the poor Creature lay horribly Roaring for diver&s;e Dayes together, while his Ma&s;ter, gratifyed with the <HI>Mu&s;ick,</HI> lay contriving of New Torments, wherewith to Mar|tyr him. It was not long, before the Child had a <HI>Sore Eye,</HI> which his Ma&s;ter &s;aid, proceeded from his <HI>Weeping</HI> on the Forbidden Accounts: Where|upon, laying Hold on the <HI>Head</HI> of the Child
<PB N="52" REF="27"> with his <HI>Left Hand</HI> with the Thumb of his <HI>Right,</HI> he forced the ball of his <HI>Eye</HI> quite out; there|withal telling him; <HI>That when he heard him Cry ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> he would Serve t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">othe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o too, and leave him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> an Eye to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eep witha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> About Nine or Ten Day<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> after, his Wretch had Occa&s;ion to Re|move, with his Family, about Thirty Miles fur|ther: and when they had gone about Six Miles of the Thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ty, the Child being Tir'd and Faint, &s;at him down to re&s;t, at which, this Horrid Fellow, being provoked, he Buried the Blade of his Hatchet, in the Brains of the Child, and then chopt the Breathle&s;s Body to pieces before the re&s;t of the Company, &amp; threw it into the River. But for the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke of the&s;e and other &s;uch Truculent Things done by <HI>Hope Hood,</HI> I am Re&s;olved, that in the cour&s;e of our Story, I will watch to &s;ee what becomes of that hideous <HI>Loup garou,</HI> if <HI>he</HI> come to his <HI>End,</HI> as I am apt to think he will, before the Story.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>RELATION. II.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MEhetabel Goodwin,</HI> being a Captive among the <HI>Indians,</HI> had with her a Child about Months old; which thro' Hunger &amp; Hard|&s;hip, <HI>&s;he</HI> being unable to nouri&s;h, <HI>it</HI> often made mo&s;t grievous Ejulations. Her <HI>Indian</HI> Ma&s;ter told her, that if the Child were not quiet, he would &s;oon di&s;po&s;e of it; which cau&s;ed her to u&s;e all po&s;&s;ible means, that his <HI>Netop-&s;hip</HI> might
<PB N="53" REF="27"> not be offended; and &s;ometimes carry it from the Fire, out of his Hearing, where &s;he &s;at up to the wa&s;t, in Snow and Fro&s;t, for &s;everal Hours, until it was Lull'd a&s;leep. She thus for &s;everal dayes pre&s;erved the Life of her <HI>Babe,</HI> until he &s;aw cau&s;e to Travel with his own <HI>Cabs</HI> farther afield; and then le&s;t he &s;hould be Retarded in his Tra|vel. He violently Snatcht the Babe out of it's Mo|thers Arms, and before her Face knock out its <HI>Brains,</HI> and &s;tript it of the Few <HI>Rag</HI> it had hither|to Enjoy'd, and ordered her the Task, to go wa&s;h the <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oody Cloaths.</HI> Returning from this <HI>Melan|choly Task,</HI> She found the Infant hanging by the Neck, in a Forked Bough of a <HI>Tree.</HI> She de&s;ired leave to lay it in the <HI>Earth;</HI> but he &s;aid, <HI>It was better as it was, for now the Wild Bea&s;ts would not come at it,</HI> [I am &s;ure, they <HI>had</HI> been at it!] <HI>and &s;he might have the Comfort of &s;eeing it again, if ever they came that way.</HI> The Journey now be|fore them, was like to be very long, even as far as <HI>Canada,</HI> where his purpo&s;e was to make Mer|chandi&s;e of his Captive, and glad was the Cap|tive of &s;uch happy Tidings. But the De&s;perate length of the <HI>way,</HI> and want of <HI>Food,</HI> and grief of <HI>Mind,</HI> wherewith &s;he now encountred, cau&s;ed her within a few Dayes to faint under her Dif|ficulties. When at length, &s;he far down for &s;ome Repo&s;e, with many <HI>Prayers,</HI> and <HI>Tears</HI> unto God, for the Salvation of her Soul, &s;he found her &s;elf unable to Ri&s;e, until &s;he e&s;pied her Furious Exe|cutioner
<PB N="54" REF="28"> coming towards her, with <HI>Fire</HI> in his <HI>Eyes,</HI> the <HI>Devil</HI> in his <HI>Heart,</HI> and his <HI>Hatchet</HI> in his <HI>Hand,</HI> ready to be&s;tow a <HI>Mercy-Stroke</HI> of Death upon her. But then, this mi&s;erable Creature, got on her <HI>Knees,</HI> and with Weeping and Wailing &amp; all Expre&s;&s;ions of <HI>Agony</HI> and <HI>Entreaty,</HI> prevailed on him, to &s;pare her Life a little, and &s;he did not que&s;tion but God would enable her to <HI>Walk a little fa&s;ter.</HI> The mercile&s;s <HI>Tyrant</HI> was prevailed withal, to &s;pare her this Time; neverthele&s;s her former Weakne&s;s quickly Returning upon her, he was ju&s;t going to Murder her; but a Couple of <HI>Indians,</HI> ju&s;t at that In&s;tant, coming in, &s;ud|denly call'd upon him to <HI>Hold his Hand;</HI> whereat &s;uch an Horror Surpri&s;ed his <HI>Guilty Soul,</HI> that he ran away. But hearing them call his <HI>Name,</HI> he Returned, and then permitted the&s;e his Friends, to Ran&s;ome his pri&s;oner from him. After this, being Seated by a River &s;ide, they heard &s;everal <HI>Guns</HI> go off, on the other &s;ide; which they con|cluded, was from a party of <HI>Albany</HI> Indians, who were Enemies unto the&s;e: whereupon this Bold Blade, would needs go in a <HI>Canoo,</HI> to di&s;cover what they were. They Fired upon him, and &s;hot through him, and &s;everal of his Friends, be|fore the Di&s;covery could be made unto Satis|faction. But &s;ome Dayes after this, diver&s;e of his Friends, gathered a party to Revenge his Death, on their <HI>Suppo&s;ed Enemies;</HI> with whom they joined Battel, and fought &s;everal Hours,
<PB N="55" REF="28"> until their <HI>Suppo&s;ed Enemies,</HI> did <HI>Really</HI> put 'em to the Rout. Among the Captives, which they left in their Fight, one was this poor <HI>Goodwin,</HI> who was <HI>Over joyed</HI> in &s;eeing her &s;elf thus at Liberty; but the <HI>Joy</HI> did not la&s;t long, for the&s;e <HI>Indians</HI> were of the <HI>Same Sort</HI> with the other, and had been by their <HI>own Friends,</HI> thus through a &s;trange <HI>Mi&s;take</HI> &s;et upon. However, this crue, proved more Favourable to her, than the former, and went away Silently with their Booty, being loth to have any <HI>Noi&s;e</HI> made of their foul <HI>Mi&s;take.</HI> And yet, a few Dayes after, &s;uch an other <HI>Mi&s;take</HI> happened; for, meeting with another party of <HI>Indians,</HI> which they imagined in the <HI>Engli&s;h In|terests,</HI> they furiou&s;ly engaged each other, and many were killed and wounded on either &s;ide: but they proved a party of the <HI>French Indians,</HI> who took this poor <HI>Goodwin,</HI> and pre&s;ented her to the French Captain, by whom &s;he was carri|ed unto <HI>Canada;</HI> where &s;he continued Five years, &amp; then was brought &s;afe Back into <HI>New-England.</HI></P>
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<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>RELATION. III.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MAry Plaisted,</HI> the Wife of Mr. <HI>James Plai&s;ted,</HI> was made a Captive by the In|dians, about Three Weeks, after her Delivery of a Male Child. They then Took her, with her Infant, off her Bed, and forced her to Travel in this her Weakne&s;s, the be&s;t part of a Day, with|out
<PB N="56" REF="29"> any Re&s;pect or Pitty. At Night, the <HI>Cold Ground,</HI> in the <HI>Open Air,</HI> was her Lodging; and for many a Day, &s;he had no Nouri&s;hment, but a little <HI>Water,</HI> with a little <HI>Bears-fle&s;h:</HI> which rendred her &s;o <HI>feeble,</HI> that &s;he, with her Infant, were not far from totally <HI>Starved.</HI> Upon her Cries to God, there was at length, &s;ome Supply &s;ent in, by her Ma&s;ters taking a <HI>Moo&s;e,</HI> the Broath whereof Recovered her. But &s;he mu&s;t now Travel, many Dayes, thro' Woods, and Swamps, and Rocks, and over Mountains, and Fro&s;t and Snow, until &s;he could &s;tir no farther. Sitting down to Re&s;t, &s;he was not able to Ri&s;e, until her Diabolical Ma&s;ter help'd her up; which when he did, he took her Child from her, and carried it unto a River, where &s;tripping it of the few Rags it had, he took it by the Heels, and again&s;t a Tree da&s;h'd out its Brains, and then flang it into the River. So he Returned unto the mi&s;erable Mother, telling her, <HI>She was now ea&s;ed of her Burden, and must walk fa&s;ter than &s;he did before!</HI></P>
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<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>RELATION. IV.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MAry Fergu&s;on,</HI> taken Captive by the <HI>Indians</HI> at <HI>Sa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mon Falls,</HI> declares, that another Maid, of about Fifteen or Sixteen years of Age, taken at the &s;ame Time, had a <HI>Great Burden</HI> Im|po&s;ed on her. Being over born with her <HI>Burden,</HI> &s;he bur&s;t out into Tears telling her Indian Ma&s;ter,
<PB N="57" REF="29"> <HI>That &s;he could go no further.</HI> Whereupon he im|mediately took off her <HI>Burden,</HI> and leading her a&s;ide into the Bu&s;hes, he cut off her <HI>Head,</HI> and <HI>Scalping</HI> it, he ran about Laughing and B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">agging, what an <HI>Act</HI> he had now done and &s;howing the <HI>Scalp</HI> unto the re&s;t, he told them, <HI>They &s;hould all be Served &s;o; if they were not patient.</HI></P>
<P>In fine; when the <HI>Children</HI> of the <HI>Engli&s;h Cap|tives</HI> Cryed at any Time, &s;o that the were not pre&s;ently quieted, the manner of the <HI>Indians</HI> was, to da&s;h out their Brains again&s;t a <HI>Tree.</HI></P>
<P>And very often, when the <HI>Indians</HI> were on, or near the Water, they took the Small <HI>Childre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and held 'em under Water, till they had near Drowned them; and then gave 'em unto their Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Mothers to quiet 'em.</P>
<P>And the <HI>Indians</HI> in their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rolicks, would Whip and Beat the Small <HI>Children,</HI> until they &s;et 'em into grievous out cryes, and then throw 'em to their Amazed Mothers, for them to quiet 'em again, as well as they could.</P>
<P>This was <HI>Indian Captivity!</HI></P>
<P>Reader, A Modern Traveller a&s;&s;ures us, that at the <HI>Villa Ludovi&s;ia,</HI> not far from <HI>Rome,</HI> t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e is to be &s;een the Body of a <HI>Petrified Man;</HI> and that he him&s;elf &s;aw, by a piece of the mans Leg, Broken for Sati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">action both the <HI>Bone,</HI> and the <HI>Stone</HI> Cru&s;ted over it. All that I will &s;ay, is, That if thou can&s;t Read the&s;e pa&s;&s;ages without
<PB N="58" REF="30"> Relenting Bowels, thou thy &s;elf art as really <HI>Petrified,</HI> as the man at <HI>Villa Ludovi&s;ia.</HI></P>
<Q><L>Ne&s;cio tu quibus es, Lector, Lecturus Ocellis;</L>
<L>Hoc Scio quod Siccis Scribere non potui.</L></Q>
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<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE VIII.</HI> A Little Account of the Greate&s;t Action, that ever <HI>New England</HI> Attempted.</HEAD>
<P>I have Read or Heard, That when the In&s;uf|ferable Abu&s;es, which the Engli&s;h Nation &s;uffered from the <HI>Abbeys,</HI> were in the Parliament complained of, the Total Di&s;&s;olution of tho&s;e <HI>Abbeys,</HI> was much forwarded, by a Speech of a Gentleman in the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> to this pur|po&s;e; That his own Hou&s;e had been much annoy'd by <HI>Rooks</HI> building in a <HI>Tree,</HI> near unto it, and that he had u&s;ed many ineffectual ways to di&s;turb, and di&s;roo&s;t the&s;e mi&s;chievous <HI>Rooks:</HI> until at La&s;t, he found out an <HI>infallible way</HI> to be delivered from the <HI>Rooks,</HI> and that was to cut down the <HI>Tree</HI> that Lodged 'em. The Di|&s;tre&s;&s;es into which <HI>New-Eng<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">and</HI> was now fallen, made <HI>this</HI> very compari&s;on to be thought of. The <HI>Indian Rooks</HI> grievou&s;ly infe&s;ted the Coun|trey; and while the Country was only on the <HI>Defen&s;ive Part,</HI> their <HI>Men</HI> were Thinned, their <HI>Towns</HI> were Broken, and their <HI>Trea&s;ures</HI> con&s;u|med,
<PB N="59" REF="30"> without any Hope of &s;eeing an End of the&s;e Trouble&s;ome <HI>Tragedies.</HI> The <HI>French</HI> Co|lonies to the Northward, were the <HI>Tree,</HI> in which tho&s;e <HI>Rooks</HI> had their <HI>Ne&s;ts;</HI> and the <HI>French</HI> ha|ving in per&s;on fir&s;t fallen upon the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> of <HI>New-England,</HI> it was thought that the <HI>New-Eng|landers</HI> might very ju&s;tly take this Occa&s;ion, to Reduce tho&s;e <HI>French</HI> Colonies under the Engli&s;h Government, and &s;o at once take away from all the <HI>Rooks</HI> for ever, all that gave 'em any Ad|vantage to Infe&s;t us. Accordingly, a <HI>Naval Force,</HI> with about Seven Hundred men, under the Conduct of Sr. <HI>William Phips,</HI> was di&s;patch'd away to <HI>L'accady,</HI> and <HI>Nova Scotia.</HI> This Fleet, &s;etting Sail from <HI>New-England, April</HI> 28. 1690. in a Fortnight Arrived at <HI>Port-Royal,</HI> and Sir <HI>William</HI> having the Fort Surrendred unto him, took Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of that Province, for the Crown of <HI>England.</HI> But this was only a &s;tep towards a far greater Action! There was no Speech about the Methods of Safety made, which did not conclude, with, a, <HI>Delenda e&s;t Carthago.</HI> It was become the concurring Re&s;olution, of all <HI>New-England,</HI> with <HI>New-York,</HI> that a vigorous Attack &s;hould be made upon <HI>Canada,</HI> at once, both by Sea, and Land. A Fleet of <HI>Thirty Two</HI> Sail, under the Command of Sr. <HI>William Phips,</HI> was Equipp'd at <HI>Boston,</HI> and began their Voyage, <HI>Aug.</HI> 9. and the whole <HI>Matter</HI> was put into <HI>Form,</HI> with &s;o much Contrivance and Caution, and
<PB N="60" REF="31"> Courage, that nothing but an Evident Hand of <HI>Heaven,</HI> was likely to have given &s;uch a <HI>Defeat</HI> unto it, as ha's been indeed generally and Remar|kably given unto all the Colonies of <HI>America,</HI> when they have Invaded one another. If this Expedition did mi&s;carry, and if <HI>Canada</HI> proved unto <HI>New England,</HI> what it prov'd unto the <HI>Spa|niards,</HI> when at their De&s;erting it, they call'd it, <HI>Il Capo de Nada</HI> or, <HI>The Cape of Nothing</HI> (whence the Name <HI>Canada</HI>) there is no <HI>New Englander,</HI> but what will mentain, that it was with a le&s;s Di&s;|graceful mi&s;carriage, than what baffled, every one of tho&s;e, that were made in this War, again&s;t the <HI>French I&s;lands,</HI> by more powerful Fleets of tho&s;e, who were forward Enough to Reproach <HI>New-England.</HI> I am &s;ure, he that Reads the Ac|count of what was done at <HI>Martineco,</HI> in the <HI>Re|lation of the Voyage of M.</HI> de Gennes, lately pub|li&s;hed, mu&s;t be very ea&s;y in his Reflections upon what was done at <HI>Canada.</HI> And I will add, That if the <HI>New-England</HI> men return'd <HI>re infecta</HI> from <HI>Canada,</HI> yet they did not leave Two Hundred men behind them to the mercy of the <HI>French,</HI> as they who mo&s;t Reproached <HI>New England,</HI> &s;oon after did at <HI>Guadalupa.</HI></P>
<P>The fuller Narrative of the&s;e memorable Things, the Reader may find written, in, <HI>The Life of Sir <HI>William Phipps,</HI></HI> lately publi&s;hed; of wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch I mu&s;t here give this Atte&s;tation, That as my Acquaintance with the Author, gives me
<PB N="61" REF="31"> A&s;&s;urance, of his being as Willing to <HI>Retract</HI> a Mi&s;take, as unwilling to <HI>Commit</HI> one, and of his Care in whatever he writes, to be able to make the profe&s;&s;ion of <HI>Oecolampadius, Nolui aliquid Scribere, quod improbaturum putem Christum:</HI> So I have Compared this Narrative with the <HI>Jour|nals</HI> of the <HI>Expedition,</HI> and I find the mo&s;t Con|te&s;ted pa&s;&s;ages of the Story (nor did I ever hear of any more than one or two little circum&s;tantial pa&s;&s;ages conte&s;ted, as carrying a &s;ound a little too <HI>Rhetorical;</HI> but, I &s;ay, I find them) to be the very Expre&s;s Words thereof, contained in tho&s;e <HI>Journals;</HI> and more than &s;o, that very credible Per&s;ons, concerned therein, have readily offered their Depo&s;itions upon <HI>Oath,</HI> to the Truth of what is Written. So I take my leave of that Hi&s;tory, and of Sir <HI>William Phipps,</HI> the Memora|ble Subject of that Hi&s;tory, whom I leave under this</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD><HI>EPITAPH.</HI> Bonus non est, qui non ad Invidiam u&s;que Bonus e&s;t. <HI>[A Digre&s;&s;ion.]</HI></HEAD>
<P>REader, &s;ince we can give no better an Ac|count, of the <HI>La&s;t</HI> Engli&s;h Expedition to <HI>Canada,</HI> why may we not for a Minute or Two, Refre&s;h our &s;elves, with a Story of an <HI>Old</HI> one.</P>
<PB N="62" REF="32">
<P>In the very year, when the <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;ett</HI>-Colo|ny began, the Engli&s;h Attempted the Conque&s;t of <HI>Canada,</HI> and though the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> Attempt mi&s;car|ried, the <HI>Second</HI> pro&s;pered. The Story of it, makes a Chapter, in Father <HI>Hennepins</HI> Account of the Va&s;t Country lately di&s;covered, betwixt <HI>Canada,</HI> and <HI>Mexico:</HI> and this is the Sum of it.</P>
<P>While a Colony was forming it &s;elf at <HI>Canada,</HI> an Engli&s;h Fleet was Equipp'd, in the year, 1628. under the Command of Admiral <HI>Kirk,</HI> with a De&s;ign to take Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of that Country. In their Vogage, having taken a French Ship, at the I&s;le <HI>Percee,</HI> they Sailed up the River, as far as <HI>Tadou&s;ac,</HI> where they found a Bark, in which they &s;et a&s;hore &s;ome Souldiers, to Seize on Cape <HI>Tourment.</HI> And here a Couple of Salvages di&s;|covering them, ran away to advi&s;e the people of <HI>Quebeck,</HI> that the Engli&s;h were approaching. When the Fleet arrived, the Admiral Summon|ed the Town to Surrender by a Letter to Mon|&s;ieur <HI>Champelin,</HI> the Governour; But the Go|vernour notwith&s;tanding his being &s;o Surpri&s;ed with the Inva&s;ion, made &s;uch a Re&s;olute An&s;wer, that the Engli&s;h, (though as the Hi&s;torian &s;ays, <HI>they are a People that will &s;ooner Dy than quit what they once undertake</HI>) did conclude the Fort <HI>Que|beck,</HI> was in a much better Condition for De|fence than it really was; and therefore de&s;i&s;ting from any further Attempt at this Time, they returned into <HI>England,</HI> with Re&s;olution further
<PB N="63" REF="32"> to pur&s;ue their De&s;ign at a more favourable Op|portunity.</P>
<P>Accordingly, on <HI>July</HI> 19. 1629. in the Morn|ing, the <HI>Engli&s;h Fleet</HI> appear'd again, over again&s;t the Great Bay of <HI>Quebeck,</HI> at the point of the I&s;le of <HI>Orleans;</HI> which Fleet Con&s;i&s;ted of Three men of War, and Six other Ve&s;&s;els. Admiral <HI>Kirk</HI> &s;ending a Summons form'd in very Civil Expre&s;&s;ions, for the Surrender of the Place, the mi&s;erable State of the Country, which had been by the Engli&s;h Interceptions, hindred of Supplies from <HI>France,</HI> for Two years together, oblig'd the Sieur <HI>Champelin</HI> to make a &s;ofter An&s;wer, than he did before. He &s;ent Father <HI>Jo&s;eph Le Caron,</HI> aboard the Admiral to treat about the Surrender, and none of his Demands for Fifteen Dayes, and then for Five Dayes, Time to Con&s;ider on't, could obtain any longer Time, than till the E|vening, to prepare their <HI>Articles.</HI> Upon the De|livery of this Me&s;&s;age, a Council was held, wherein &s;ome urged, that the Engli&s;h had no more than Two Hundred men, of Regular Troops aboard, and &s;ome others which had not much of the Air of Souldiers; and that the Courage of the Inhabitants was much to be reli|ed upon, and therefore it was be&s;t for to run the risk of a Siege: But Mon&s;ieur <HI>Champelin,</HI> apprehending the Bravery of the Engli&s;h, re|mon&s;trated unto the Council, that it was better to make a Surrender on Good Terms, than be
<PB N="64" REF="33"> all out in pieces by an unrea&s;onable Endeavour to Defend them&s;elves. Upon this, the Articles regulating all matters, were got ready, and Fa|ther <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> had his Commi&s;&s;ion, to carry them aboard the Engli&s;h Admiral, where the <HI>Signing</HI> of them was defe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r'd until To Morrow. On <HI>July</HI> 20. the Articles of Capitulation were Sign|ed, on both &s;ides, and the Engli&s;h being Landed, were put in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of <HI>Canada,</HI> by the Gover|nour of it. The French Inhabitants, who were then in the Country, had twenty Crowns a piece given them, the re&s;t of their Effects remained unto the Conquerers, but tho&s;e who were willing to &s;tay, were favoured by the Engli&s;h with great Advantages. The Fleet &s;et Sail again for <HI>Eng|land, Sept.</HI> 14. and arrived at <HI>Plymouth, Octo.</HI> 18. in that year.</P>
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<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>ARTICLE. IX. Ca&s;co <HI>Lo&s;t.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHen the <HI>Indians</HI> at la&s;t perceived that the <HI>New Englanders</HI> were upon a Likely De|&s;ign to Swallow up the <HI>French</HI> Territories, the <HI>Pro&s;pect</HI> of it began to have the &s;ame Operati|on upon them, that the <HI>Succe&s;s</HI> of the De&s;ign, would have made <HI>Perpetual;</HI> that is, to Di&s;pirit them, for giving the <HI>New Englanders</HI> any further Mole&s;tations. Neverthele&s;s, <HI>Before</HI> and <HI>Until,</HI>
<PB N="65" REF="33"> they were thoroughly Advi&s;ed of what was a doing, and likely to be done, they did mole&s;t the Country with &s;ome Tragical Efforts of their Fury. Captain <HI>James Convers</HI> was Marching through the va&s;t Wilderne&s;s, to <HI>Albany,</HI> with &s;ome Forces, which the <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;ets</HI> Colony were willing to &s;end by Land (be&s;ides what they did &s;end by <HI>Sea</HI> unto <HI>Quebeck,</HI>) for the A&s;&s;i&s;tence of the Army, in the <HI>West,</HI> that was to go from thence over the <HI>Lake,</HI> and there fall upon <HI>Mount Real:</HI> but unhappy Tidings out of the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> required the Diver&s;ion of tho&s;e Forces thither. About the Beginning of <HI>May,</HI> the French and Indians, be|tween Four and Five Hundred, were &s;een at <HI>Ca&s;co,</HI> in a great Fleet of <HI>Canoo's</HI> pa&s;&s;ing over the Bay: but not Seeing or Hearing any more of them, for Two or Three Weeks together, the <HI>Ca&s;conians</HI> flattered them&s;elves with Hopes, That they were gone another way. But about <HI>May</HI> 16 tho&s;e Hopes were over; For one <HI>Gre&s;&s;on,</HI> a Scotchman, then going out Early, &s;ell into the mouths of the&s;e Hungry Salvages. It proved no kindne&s;s to <HI>Ca&s;co,</HI> tho' it proved a great one to <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> that a Commander &s;o qualified, as Captain <HI>Willard,</HI> was called off, Two or Three Dayes be|fore. But, The Officers of the place, now con|cluding, that the whole <HI>Army</HI> of the Enemy, were watching for an Advantage to Surprize the Town, Re&s;olved that they would keep a Strict watch, for Two or Three dayes, to make &s;ome further
<PB N="66" REF="34"> Di&s;covery, before they Salley'd forth. Notwith|&s;tanding this, one Lieut. <HI>Clark,</HI> with near Thirty of their Stoute&s;t young men, would venture out, as far as the Top of an Hill, in the Entrance of the <HI>Wood,</HI> half a mile di&s;tant from the Town. The out-let from the Town to the <HI>Wood,</HI> was thro' a Lane, that had a Fence on each &s;ide, which had a certain <HI>Block-hou&s;e</HI> at one End of it: and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> were Su&s;picious, when they came to Enter the <HI>Lane,</HI> that the <HI>Indians</HI> were lying behind the <HI>Fence,</HI> becau&s;e the <HI>Cattel</HI> &s;tood &s;taring that way, and would not pa&s;s into the <HI>Wood</HI> as they u&s;e to do. This mettle&s;ome Company, then ran up to the Fence, with an, <HI>Huzzab!</HI> thinking thereby to di&s;courage the Enemy, if they &s;hould be lurking there: but the Enemy were &s;o well prepared for them, that they an&s;wered them with an horrible Vengeance, which kill'd the Lieutenant, with Thirteen more upon the Spot, and the re&s;t e&s;caped with much ado unto one of the Garri|&s;ons. The Enemy then coming into Town, be|&s;et all the <HI>Garri&s;ons</HI> at once, Except the <HI>Fort;</HI> which were manfully Defended, &s;o long as their Ammunition la&s;ted; but That being &s;pent, with|out a pro&s;pect of a Recruit, they quitted all the Four <HI>Garri&s;ons,</HI> and by the Advantage of the Night, got into the <HI>Fort.</HI> Upon this, the Enemy Setting the Town on Fire, bent their whole Force again&s;t the <HI>Fort,</HI> which had hard by it, a deep <HI>Gully,</HI> that contributed not a little unto the Ruin
<PB N="67" REF="34"> of it: For, the Be&s;iegers getting into that <HI>Gully,</HI> lay below the Danger of our <HI>Guns.</HI> Here the Enemy began their <HI>Mine,</HI> which was carried &s;o near the Walls, that the Engli&s;h, who by Fighting Five Dayes and Four Nights, had the greate&s;t part of their men killed and wounded, (Captain <HI>Lawrence</HI> mortally, among the re&s;t,) began a parley with them. Articles were Agreed, That they &s;hould have liberty to March unto the Next Engli&s;h Town, and have a Guard for their Safety in their March; and the <HI>French Commander,</HI> lift|ing up his Hand, Swore by the Everla&s;ting God, for the performance of the&s;e Articles. But the Agreement was kept, as tho&s;e that are made with <HI>Hugonots</HI> u&s;e to be: The Engli&s;h being fir&s;t Ad|moni&s;hed, by the <HI>French,</HI> that they were all <HI>Re|bels,</HI> for proclaming the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> their King, were Captived, and many of them cruelly Murdered by the <HI>Indians:</HI> Only &s;ome of them (and particularly, Major <HI>Davis,</HI>) were Carried unto <HI>Canada,</HI> where the Gentry, very civilly Treated them. The Garri&s;ons at <HI>Papoodack, Spurwink, Black Point,</HI> and <HI>Blue Point,</HI> were &s;o di&s;animated at the&s;e Di&s;a&s;ters, that, without <HI>Or|ders</HI> they drew off immediately, to <HI>Saco,</HI> Twen|ty miles, within <HI>Ca&s;co,</HI> and from <HI>Saco</HI> in a few Dayes al&s;o they drew off to <HI>Wells,</HI> Twenty miles within the &s;aid <HI>Saco;</HI> and about Half <HI>Wells</HI> drew off as far as Lieut. <HI>Storers.</HI> But the Arrival of <HI>Orders</HI> and <HI>Souldiers</HI> from the Government, &s;topt
<PB N="68" REF="35"> them from Retiring any further, and <HI>Hope Hood,</HI> with a party that &s;taid for further mi&s;chief, meet|ing with &s;ome Re&s;i&s;tence here, turn'd about, and having fir&s;t had a skirmi&s;h with Captain <HI>Sherborn,</HI> they appear'd the Next Lords day at <HI>Newicha|wannick,</HI> or, <HI>Barwick,</HI> where they Burnt &s;ome Hou&s;es, and Slew a man. Three Dayes alter, they came upon a Small Hamlet, on the South &s;ide of <HI>Pi&s;cataqua</HI> River, called, <HI>Fox Point,</HI> and be|&s;ides the Burning of &s;everal Hou&s;es, they Took Half a Dozen, and kill'd more than a Dozen, of the too Securely Ungar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;oned People: which it was as ea&s;y to do, as to have Spoiled an ordi|nary <HI>Hen Roo&s;t.</HI> But Captain <HI>Floyd,</HI> and Capt. <HI>Greenleaf,</HI> coming upon tho&s;e <HI>Indians,</HI> made &s;ome Slaugh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er among them, Recovered &s;ome Captives, with much Plunder, and be&s;tow'd a Good wound upon <HI>Hope-Hood,</HI> who left his <HI>Gun,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">[<HI>Villian!</HI> Thou &s;halt not e&s;cape &s;o: There mu&s;t quickly be ano|ther &s;troke upon thee!]</NOTE> (which was next his <HI>Life</HI>) in this Action.</P>
<P>All that &s;hall further belong to this Paragraph of our Story, is, That when the <HI>Indians</HI> were got into the Woods, they made one Goody <HI>Stockford</HI> their me&s;&s;enger, to her Neighbours, who&s;e <HI>Charity</HI> &s;he &s;o well Sol|licited, that &s;he got a <HI>Shalop</HI> full of it unto <HI>Ca&s;co,</HI> where the <HI>Indians</HI> permitted us to Redeem &s;e|veral of the <HI>Pri&s;oners.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. X. Harm</HI> Watch'd, and Catch'd by the <HI>Indians,</HI> and &s;everal Rare In&s;tances of <HI>Mortal</HI> wounds upon the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> not proving <HI>Mortal.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat memorable Tygre, <HI>Hope-Hood,</HI> (called al&s;o, <HI>Wohawa,</HI>) finding the Coa&s;t herea|bouts too hot for him, went away with his Crue, a great way to the <HI>West-ward,</HI> with a De&s;ign to Be|witch another Crue at <HI>Aquadocta</HI> into his A&s;&s;i&s;tence. Here a party of <HI>French Indians,</HI> by a &s;trange Mi&s;take, &s;uppo&s;ing <HI>Hope Hood,</HI> &amp; his Wretches, to have been the <HI>Indians,</HI> who had lately done &s;ome Spoil upon them at <HI>Canada,</HI> furiou&s;ly fell upon them, and in their <HI>Blind Fury</HI> &s;lew him, and a con&s;iderable part of his Company. So, we have now done with <HI>him!</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n the mean Time, &s;ome other <HI>Indians</HI> came upon an Helple&s;s place, called, <HI>Spruce Creek,</HI> and kill'd an old man, and carried a Woman in|to Captivity; but tho' Captain <HI>Convers</HI> pur&s;ued 'em Three Dayes, they were too Nimble for him. On <HI>July,</HI> 4 Eight or Nine per&s;ons work|ing in a Field, at a place call'd, <HI>Lampereel River,</HI> the <HI>Scythe</HI> of <HI>Death,</HI> unhappily mow'd them down, in that <HI>Field of Blood:</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> by Sur|prize, kill'd 'em all, and carried a Lad Captive. About this Time, a <HI>Council of War,</HI> was called, at <HI>Port&s;mouth,</HI> by which t'was thought advi&s;eable, to
<PB N="70" REF="36"> &s;end out Captain <HI>Wi&s;wel,</HI> with a con&s;iderable Scout for to Scour the Woods, as far as <HI>Ca&s;co:</HI> and it being Re&s;olved, That one of the other Captains with about Four&s;core Stout men &s;hould accom|pany Captain <HI>Wi&s;wal</HI> in this Action, they <HI>All</HI> with &s;uch a Generous Emulation offered it, that it was nece&s;&s;ary to determine it by a <HI>Lot,</HI> which fell upon Captain <HI>Floyd.</HI> On <HI>July</HI> 4. a&s;&s;i&s;ted with Lieut. <HI>Andrews,</HI> and a Detachment of Twenty Two men from <HI>Wells,</HI> they took their March from <HI>Quochecho,</HI> into the Woods. But the Day following, the Enemy &s;et upon Captain <HI>Hiltons</HI> Garri&s;on in <HI>Exeter,</HI> which Lieut. <HI>Bancroft,</HI> then po&s;ted at <HI>Exeter,</HI> with the lo&s;s of a few of his men, Relieved. At this Time, there happened a Remarkable Thing. I know not whether the Story told by <HI>Plato</HI> be true, That one <HI>Herus Ar|menius</HI> (whom <HI>Clemens</HI> will have to be <HI>Zoroaster</HI>) being Slain in War, lay Ten Days among the Dead, and then being brought away, and on the Twelfth Day laid on the Funeral Pile, he came to Life again. But it is true, that one <HI>Simon Stone</HI> being here wounded with Shot, in <HI>Nine</HI> &s;everal places, lay for <HI>Dead,</HI> (as it was Time!) among the <HI>Dead.</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> coming to Strip him, at|tempted, with <HI>Two</HI> &s;everal Blows of an Hatchet at his <HI>Neck,</HI> to cut off his <HI>Head,</HI> which Blows added, you may be &s;ure, more Enormous wounds unto tho&s;e <HI>Port-holes</HI> of <HI>Death,</HI> at which the <HI>Life</HI> of the poor man, was already running out, as fa&s;t
<PB N="71" REF="36"> as it could. Being charged hard by Lieut. <HI>Ban|croft,</HI> they left the man, without <HI>Scalping</HI> him; and the Engli&s;h now coming to Bury the <HI>Dead,</HI> one of the Souldiers perceived this poor man to fetch a ga&s;p: whereupon an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Fellow then pre&s;ent, advi&s;ed 'em, to give him another Dab with an Hatchet, and &s;o Bury him with the re&s;t. The Engli&s;h dete&s;ting this Barbarous Advice, lifted up the wounded man, and poured a little <HI>Fair Water</HI> into his Mouth, at which he Coughed; then they poured a little <HI>Strong Water</HI> alter it, at which he opened his Eyes. The <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Fellow was ordered now to hale a Canoo a&s;hore, to car|ry the wounded men up the River, unto a Cheirurgeon; and as Teague was fooli&s;hly pull|ing the Canoo a&s;hore, with the Cock of his <HI>Gun,</HI> while he held the Muzzle in his <HI>Hand,</HI> his Gun went off, and broke his <HI>Arm,</HI> whereof he remains a Creeple to <HI>this Day:</HI> But <HI>Simon Stone</HI> was tho|roughly cured, and is at <HI>this Day</HI> a very lu&s;ty man, and as he was Born with <HI>Two Thumbs</HI> on one Hand, his Neighbours have thought him to have at lea&s;t as many <HI>Hearts</HI> as <HI>Thumbs!</HI></P>
<P>Reader, Let us Leave it now unto the Sons of <HI>Ae&s;culapius,</HI> to Di&s;pute out the Problem, <HI>What Wounds are to be Judged Mortal?</HI> The So|vereign Arbiter of <HI>Life</HI> and <HI>Death,</HI> &s;eems to have determined it, <HI>That no Wounds are Mortal, but &s;uch as He &s;hall in His Holy Providence Actually make &s;o.</HI> On the one &s;ide, Let it be Remem|bred,
<PB N="72" REF="37"> That a Scratch of a <HI>Comb</HI> has proved <HI>Mor|tal;</HI> That the Incomparable Anatomi&s;t <HI>Spige|lius,</HI> at the Wedding of his Daughter, gathering up the Reliques of a Broken Gla&s;s, a Fragment of it &s;cratched one of his Fingers; and all his Exqui&s;ite Skill in <HI>Anatomy,</HI> could not prevent its producing an <HI>Empyema,</HI> that Killed him: That Colonel <HI>Ro&s;&s;iter,</HI> cracking a Plumb&s;tone with his Teeth, broke his Tooth, and Lo&s;t his <HI>Life;</HI> That the Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> cutting a <HI>Corn,</HI> in his Foot, Cut a&s;under the <HI>Threed</HI> of his <HI>Life;</HI> That Mr. <HI>Fowler,</HI> a Vintner, playing with his Child, received a little &s;cratch of a <HI>Pin,</HI> which turn'd unto a <HI>Gangrene,</HI> that Co&s;t him his Life. And, Reader, Let the Remembrance of &s;uch Things, cau&s;e thee to <HI>Live,</HI> preparing for <HI>Death</HI> continu|ally. But then, on the other &s;ide, That nothing may be De&s;paired of, Remember <HI>Simon Stone.</HI> And be&s;ides him, I call to Remembrance, That the Indians making an A&s;&s;ault upon <HI>Deerfield</HI> in this <HI>Pre&s;ent War,</HI> they &s;truck an Hatchet &s;ome Inches into the <HI>Skull</HI> of a Boy there, even &s;o deep, that the Boy felt the Force of a Wre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch u&s;ed by 'em to get it out. There he lay a long while Weltring in his <HI>Blood;</HI> they found him, they Dre&s;s'd him, con&s;iderable Quantities of his <HI>Brain</HI> came out from time to time, when they opened the Wound; yet the Lad Recovered, and is now a Living Monument of the Power and Goodne&s;s of God. And in our <HI>Former
<PB N="73" REF="37"> War,</HI> there was one <HI>Jabez Mu&s;grove,</HI> who tho' he were Shot by the <HI>Indians,</HI> with a Bullet, that went in at his <HI>Ear,</HI> and went out at his <HI>Eye,</HI> on the other &s;ide of his head; and a Brace of Bul|lets, that went in to his <HI>Right Side,</HI> a little above his Hip, and pa&s;&s;ing thro' his Body within the <HI>Back Bone,</HI> went out at his <HI>Left Side;</HI> yet he Recovered, and Lived many years after it.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE XI.</HI> A Worthy Captain Dying in the <HI>Bed of Honour.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ON <HI>July</HI> 6. Lords Day, Captain <HI>Floyd,</HI> and Captain <HI>Wi&s;well,</HI> &s;ent out their Scouts, before their <HI>Breakfast,</HI> who immediately return|ed, with <HI>Tidings</HI> of <HI>Breakfa&s;t</HI> enough provided for tho&s;e, who had their Stomach &s;harp &s;et for Fighting: <HI>Tidings</HI> of a con&s;iderable Track of the Enemy, going to the We&s;tward. Our Forces vigorou&s;ly followed the Track, till they came up with the Enemy, at a place call'd <HI>Wheelrights</HI> Pond; where they Engaged 'em in a Bloody Action for &s;everal Hours. The manner of the Fight here, was as it is at all times, with <HI>Indi|ans;</HI> namely what your Arti&s;ts at <HI>Fighting</HI> do call, <HI>A la disbandad:</HI> And here, the Worthy Cap|tain <HI>Wi&s;wel,</HI> a man worthy to have been <HI>Shot</HI> (if he mu&s;t have been <HI>Shot,</HI>) with no <HI>Gun</HI> in|terior to that at <HI>Florence,</HI> the Barrel whereof is
<PB N="74" REF="38"> all pure <HI>Gold,</HI> behaving him&s;elf with much Bra|very, Sold his Life, as dear as he could; and his Lieutenant <HI>Flag,</HI> and Sergeant <HI>Walker,</HI> who were <HI>Valiant in their Lives, in their Death were not divided.</HI> Fifteen of ours were Slain, and more Wounded; but how many of the Enemy, 'twas not exactly known, becau&s;e of a &s;ingular care u&s;ed by them in all their Battels, to carry off their <HI>Dead,</HI> tho' they were forced now to Leave a good Number of them on the Spot. Captain <HI>Floyd</HI> maintained the Fight, after the Death of Captain <HI>Wi&s;wal,</HI> &s;everal Hours, until &s;o many of his Tired and Wounded men Drew off, that it was Time for him to Draw off al&s;o; for which he was blamed perhaps, by &s;ome that would not have continued at it &s;o long as <HI>he.</HI> Hereupon Captain <HI>Convers</HI> repaired, with about a &s;core Hands to look after the <HI>Wounded</HI> men, and finding &s;even yet <HI>Alive,</HI> he brought 'em to the <HI>Ho&s;pital,</HI> by Sun-ri&s;e the next morning. He then Returned with more Hands, to Bury the <HI>Dead,</HI> which was done immediately; and <HI>Plun|der</HI> left by the Enemy at their going off, was then al&s;o taken by them. But the &s;ame Week, the&s;e <HI>Rovers</HI> made their De&s;cent as far as <HI>Ame&s;|bury,</HI> where Captain <HI>Foot</HI> being <HI>En&s;nared</HI> by them, they Tortured him to Death; which Di&s;a&s;ter of the <HI>Captain,</HI> was an <HI>Alarum</HI> to the Town, and an Effectual Word of <HI>Command,</HI> cau&s;ing 'em to Fly out of their <HI>Beds</HI> into their <HI>Garri&s;ons;</HI> other|wi&s;e
<PB N="75" REF="38"> they had all undoubtedly before the next morning Slept their la&s;t: their <HI>Beds</HI> would have been their <HI>Graves.</HI> However, the Enemy Kill'd <HI>Three Per&s;ons,</HI> Burnt <HI>Three Hou&s;es,</HI> Butchered ma|ny Cattel; and &s;o, that <HI>Scene</HI> of the <HI>Tragedy</HI> be|ing over, away they went.</P>
<P>In fine; From the <HI>First</HI> Mi&s;chief done, at <HI>Lampereel</HI> River, to the <HI>La&s;t</HI> at <HI>Amesbury,</HI> all be|long'd unto one <HI>Indian</HI> Expedition, in which, though no <HI>Engli&s;h Places</HI> were taken, yet Forty <HI>Engli&s;h People</HI> were cut off.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE XII.</HI> An <HI>Indian Fort</HI> or Two, taken, and &s;ome other Actions.</HEAD>
<P>REader, I remember the <HI>prolixity</HI> of <HI>Guicciar|dine,</HI> the Hi&s;torian, gave &s;uch Offence, that <HI>Boccalini,</HI> brings in an Offender at <HI>Verbo&s;ity,</HI> Or|dered for his puni&s;hment by the Judges at <HI>Per|na&s;&s;us,</HI> to Read that punctual Hi&s;torian; but the poor Fellow begg'd rather to be Flay'd alive, than to be Tortured with Reading an Hi&s;torian, who in relating the War between the <HI>Florentines</HI> and <HI>Pi&s;ans,</HI> made longer Narrations, about the Taking of a <HI>Pigeon Hou&s;e,</HI> than there needed of the mo&s;t Fortified Ca&s;tle in the World. For this cau&s;e, let me be excu&s;ed, Reader, if I make <HI>&s;hort Work;</HI> in our Story, and Leave the Hone&s;t
<PB N="76" REF="39"> Actors them&s;elves to Run over Circum&s;tances more at large, with their Friends by the Fire-&s;ide.</P>
<P>The Enemy appearing a Little Numerous and Vexatious, the Government &s;ent more For|ces to break up the Enemies Quarters; and Auxiliaries both of Engli&s;h and Indians, under the Command of Major <HI>Church,</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;ted the Enterprize. About Three Hundred Men, were di&s;patched away upon this De&s;ign, in the Be|ginning of <HI>September,</HI> who Landed by Night in <HI>Ca&s;co Bay,</HI> at a place called, <HI>Macquoit,</HI> and by Night Marched up to <HI>Pechyp&s;cot Fort;</HI> where, from the Information of &s;ome E&s;caped <HI>Captives,</HI> they had an Expectation to meet with the Ene|my; but found that the Wretches were gone farther a field. They then marched away for <HI>Amono&s;coggin</HI> Fort, which was about Forty Miles up the River, and Wading through many <HI>Diffi|culties,</HI> whereof one was a <HI>Branch</HI> of the River it &s;elf, they met with Four or Five <HI>Salvages,</HI> go|ing to their Fort, with two Engli&s;h Pri&s;oners. They Sav'd the <HI>Pri&s;oners,</HI> but could not catch the <HI>Salvages;</HI> however, on the <HI>Lords-Day</HI> they got up to the Fort undi&s;covered, where to their Sorrow|ful Di&s;appointment, they found no more than one and Twenty of the Enemy, whereof they Took and Slew Twenty. They found &s;ome Con&s;ide|rable Store of <HI>Plunder,</HI> and Re&s;cued Five <HI>Engli&s;h Captives,</HI> and laid the Fort in A&s;hes: but one
<PB N="77" REF="39"> Di&s;a&s;ter they much Complained of; That the Captain of the Fort, who&s;e Name was <HI>Agamcus,</HI> alias, <HI>Great Tom,</HI> &s;lipt away from the Hands of his too <HI>Carele&s;s</HI> keepers. But if this piece of <HI>Carele&s;sne&s;s</HI> did any <HI>Harm,</HI> there was another which did &s;ome <HI>Good:</HI> For, <HI>Great Tom</HI> having terribly Sca|red a party of his Country-men, with the Tidings of what had happened; and an Engli&s;h Lad in their Hands al&s;o telling &s;ome Truth unto them, they betook them&s;elves to &s;uch a <HI>Flight,</HI> in their <HI>Fright,</HI> as gave one Mr. <HI>Anthony Bracket,</HI> then a Pri&s;oner with 'em, an Opportunity to Flie Four|&s;core miles another way. Our Forces returning to <HI>Mackquoit,</HI> one of our Ve&s;&s;els was there <HI>Care|le&s;ly</HI> run <HI>a ground,</HI> and compelled thereby to &s;tay for the next Tide: and Mr. <HI>Bracket,</HI> had been mi&s;erably <HI>a ground,</HI> if it had not &s;o fell out; for he thereby got thither before &s;he was afloat; o|therwi&s;e <HI>he</HI> might have peri&s;hed, who was after|wards much Improved in Service again&s;t the Murderers of his Father. Arriving at <HI>Winter Harbour,</HI> a party of men were &s;ent up the River, who coming upon a parcel of the <HI>Mankeen Wolves,</HI> then hunted for, killed &s;ome of them, and Siezed mo&s;t of their Arms, and Stores, and Re|covered from them an <HI>Engli&s;h man,</HI> who told them, that the Enemy were intending to Ren|dezvouze on <HI>Pechyp&s;cot Plain,</HI> in order to an At|tempt upon the Town of <HI>Wells.</HI> Upon this, they Re imbark'd for <HI>Macquoit,</HI> and repaired as fa&s;t
<PB N="78" REF="40"> as they could unto <HI>Pechyp&s;cot Plain,</HI> and being Divided into Three parties, they there <HI>waited</HI> for the Approach of the Enemy. But being tyred with one of the Three <HI>Italian</HI> mi&s;eries, <HI>Waiting for tho&s;e who did not come,</HI> they only po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed them&s;elves of more Plunder there hid by the E|nemy, and returned unto <HI>Ca&s;co</HI>-Harbor. The Enemy it &s;eems <HI>dogg'd</HI> their Motions; and in the Night they made a mi&s;chievous A&s;&s;ault upon &s;uch of the Engli&s;h Army, as were too Remi&s;s, in providing for their own Safety, in their going a&s;hore; Killing, Five of our <HI>Plymouth</HI>-Friends, who had Lodg'd them&s;elves in an Hou&s;e, without <HI>Commanders</HI> or <HI>Centinels.</HI> The Engli&s;h as &s;oon as the Light of the Day, (which was the <HI>Lords-Day, Sept.</HI> 21.) gave 'em leave, quickly Ran upon the Enemy, and Ea&s;ed the world of &s;ome of them, and made the re&s;t Scamper from that part of the world, and got many of their Canoo's, and not a little of their Ammunition, and their be&s;t Fur|niture for the Winter. The Army was after this Di&s;mi&s;s'd; only an Hundred men, were left, with Captain <HI>Convers,</HI> and Lieutenant <HI>Plaisted,</HI> who &s;pent their Time, as profitably as they could, in Scouting about the Frontiers, to prevent Sur|prizals, from an Enemy which rarely did <HI>Annoy,</HI> but when they could <HI>Surprize.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="article">
<PB N="79" REF="40">
<HEAD>ARTICLE. XIII. <HI>A Flag of</HI> Truce.</HEAD>
<P><HI>NEw-England</HI> was now quite out of Breath! A tedious, lingring, expen&s;ive <HI>Defence</HI> a|gain&s;t an <HI>Ever Approaching,</HI> and <HI>Unapproachable</HI> Adver&s;ary had made it &s;o. But nothing had made it more &s;o, than the Expedition to <HI>Canada;</HI> which had Exhau&s;ted its be&s;t Spirits, and &s;eem'd its <HI>Ultimus Conatus.</HI> While the Country was now in too Great Amazements to <HI>proceed any farther</HI> in the <HI>War,</HI> the <HI>Indians</HI> them&s;elves Entreat them to <HI>proceed no farther.</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> came in to <HI>Wells,</HI> with a Flag of <HI>Truce:</HI> and there En&s;ued &s;ome Overtures, with the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners, Major <HI>Hutchin&s;on,</HI> and Captain <HI>Town&s;end</HI> &s;ent from <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> to joyn with &s;ome others at <HI>Wells.</HI> At length a meeting was Appointed and obtained at <HI>Sagadehock, Nov.</HI> 23. Where the Redemption of Ten Engli&s;h Captives was accompli&s;hed; one of whom, was one Mrs. <HI>Hull,</HI> whom the <HI>Indians</HI> were very loath to part withal, becau&s;e being able to Write well, they made her &s;erve them in the Quality of a <HI>Secretary:</HI> Another was named <HI>Na|thanael White,</HI> whom the Barbarous Canibals had already ty'd unto a Stake, &amp; cut off one of his Ears, and made him Eat it Raw, and intended for to have Roa&s;ted the re&s;t of him alive: The poor
<PB N="80" REF="41"> man, being a&s;toni&s;hed at his own Deliverance! At la&s;t, they Signed Articles, Dated, <HI>Nov.</HI> 29. 1691. wherein they Engaged, That no <HI>Indians,</HI> in tho&s;e parts of the World, &s;hould do any In|jury, to the Per&s;ons or E&s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es, of the Engli&s;h, in any of the Engli&s;h Colonies, until the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> of <HI>May,</HI> next En&s;uing; And that on the &s;aid <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> of <HI>May,</HI> they would bring in to <HI>Storers</HI> Garri&s;on at <HI>Wells</HI> all the <HI>Engli&s;h Captives</HI> in their Hands, and there Make, and Sign, and Seal Articles of Peace with the Engli&s;h; and in the mean time give &s;ea&s;onable Advice of any Plots, which they might know the <HI>French</HI> to have again&s;t them. To this In&s;trument were &s;et the <HI>Pawes,</HI> of <HI>Edge|remet,</HI> and Five more of their <HI>Sagamores,</HI> and Noblemen.</P>
<P>But as it was not upon the <HI>Firm Land,</HI> but in their <HI>Canooes</HI> upon the <HI>Water,</HI> that they Signed and Sealed this In&s;trument; &s;o Reader, we will be Jealous, that it will prove but a <HI>Fluctua|ting,</HI> and <HI>Un&s;table</HI> &s;ort of a Bu&s;ine&s;s; and that the <HI>Indians</HI> will <HI>Do a Ly,</HI> as they u&s;e to do. Howe|ver, we will Di&s;mi&s;s all our Souldiers to their &s;everal Homes, Leaving only Captain <HI>Convers</HI> to keep <HI>Wells</HI> in &s;ome Order, until the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> of <HI>May,</HI> do &s;how, whether any more than a meer <HI>Flag</HI> of <HI>Truce</HI> be yet &s;hown unto us.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="article">
<PB N="81" REF="41">
<HEAD>ARTICLE. XIV. <HI>Remarkable Encounters.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AT the Day appointed, there came to the place, Mr. <HI>Danforth,</HI> Mr. <HI>Moodey,</HI> Mr. <HI>Vaughan,</HI> Mr. <HI>Brattle,</HI> and &s;everal other Gentle|men, guarded with a Troop, to &s;ee how the <HI>Frenchified Indians,</HI> would <HI>keep their Faith with the Hereticks</HI> of <HI>New-England.</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> being poor <HI>Mu&s;icians</HI> for <HI>keeping of Time,</HI> came not ac|cording to their <HI>Articles,</HI> and when Captain <HI>Con|vers</HI> had the courage to go fetch in &s;ome of them, they would have made a Lying Excu&s;e, <HI>That they did not know the Time.</HI> They brought in <HI>Two</HI> Captives, and promi&s;ed. That in <HI>Twenty Dayes</HI> more, they would bring in to Captain <HI>Con|vers</HI> all the re&s;t: but finding that in <HI>Two and Twenty</HI> Dayes they came not, with much concern upon his Mind, he got him&s;elf Supplied, as fa&s;t as he could, with Five and Thirty men, from the County of <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI> His men were not come half an Hour to <HI>Storers</HI> Hou&s;e, on <HI>June</HI> 9. 1691. nor had they got their <HI>Indian Weed</HI> fairly lighted into their Mouths, before Fierce <HI>Moxus,</HI> with Two Hundred <HI>Indians,</HI> made an Attacque upon the Garri&s;on. This Recruit of <HI>Men,</HI> thus at the very <HI>Nick of Time,</HI> Saved the place; For <HI>Moxus</HI> meet|ting with a brave Repul&s;e, drew off; and gave
<PB N="82" REF="42"> <HI>Modockawando</HI> cau&s;e to &s;ay, (as a Captive after|wards related it) <HI>My Brother</HI> Moxus <HI>ba's mi&s;s'd it now, but I will go my &s;elf the next year, and have the Dog</HI> Convers <HI>out of his Hole.</HI> About this Time, the Enemy Slew Two men at <HI>Berwick,</HI> Two more at <HI>Exeter,</HI> and the bigge&s;t part of <HI>Nine,</HI> load|ing a Ve&s;&s;el at Cape <HI>Nidduck.</HI> But about the latter End of <HI>July,</HI> we &s;ent out a &s;mall Army, under the Command of Captain <HI>March,</HI> Captain <HI>King,</HI> Captain <HI>Sherburn,</HI> and Captain <HI>Walton, (Convers</HI> lying <HI>Sick</HI> all Summer, had this to make him yet more <HI>Sick,</HI> that he could have no part in the&s;e Actions,) who landing at <HI>Macquoit,</HI> March|ed up to <HI>Pechyp&s;cot,</HI> but not finding any &s;igns of the Enemy, <HI>Marched down again.</HI> While the <HI>Commanders</HI> were waiting <HI>a&s;hore,</HI> till the <HI>Souldiers</HI> were got <HI>aboard,</HI> &s;uch Great Numbers of <HI>Indians</HI> poured in upon them, that tho' the <HI>Commanders</HI> wanted not for Courage or Conduct, yet they found them&s;elves obliged, with much ado, (and not without the Death of Worthy Captain <HI>Sher|burn</HI>) to retire into the Ve&s;&s;els, which then lay aground. Here they kept pelting at one another all night; but unto little other purpo&s;e, than <HI>this,</HI> which was indeed Remarkable: That the Ene|my was at this Time <HI>Going</HI> to <HI>Take</HI> the I&s;le of <HI>Shoales,</HI> and no doubt, had they <HI>gone,</HI> they would have <HI>Taken</HI> it, but having Exhau&s;ted all their Am|munition on this Occa&s;ion, they de&s;i&s;ted from what they de&s;igned. For the Re&s;t of the Year,
<PB N="83" REF="42"> the Compa&s;&s;ion of Heaven towards Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>New-England,</HI> kept the <HI>Indians</HI> under a Strange <HI>Inactivity;</HI> only, on <HI>Sept.</HI> 28. <HI>Seven</HI> per&s;ons were Murthered and Captived, at <HI>Berwick;</HI> and the Day following, <HI>Thrice Seven,</HI> of <HI>Sandy-Beach:</HI> On <HI>Octob.</HI> 23. One <HI>Goodridge,</HI> and his Wife, were Murdered at <HI>Newberry,</HI> and his Children Capti|ved: and the Day following, the like Fate befell a Family at <HI>Haverhil.</HI> And this year, a very Good Strong Fort, at Cape <HI>Nidduck,</HI> owned by a Widdow, was unhappily De&s;erted; after which, the Enemy came, and burnt the Hou&s;es in it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. XV.</HI> The Martyrdome of Mr. <HI>Shubael Dummer,</HI> with the Fate of <HI>York.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BUt the <HI>Winter</HI> mu&s;t not pa&s;s over, without a <HI>Storm</HI> of Blood! The Popi&s;h <HI>Indians,</HI> after long Silence and Repo&s;e, in their <HI>Inacce&s;&s;ible Ken|nels,</HI> which made our Frontier Towns, a little Re|mit their Tired Vigilance, did, <HI>Janu.</HI> 25. 1691. Set upon the Town of <HI>York,</HI> where the Inhabitants were in their unguarded Hou&s;es, here and there Scattered, <HI>Quiet and Secure.</HI> Upon the Firing of a <HI>Gun</HI> by the <HI>Indians,</HI> which was their <HI>Signal,</HI> the Inhabitants looked out, but unto their Amaze|ment, found their Hou&s;es to be Inve&s;ted with horrid <HI>Salvages,</HI> who immediately kill'd many of
<PB N="84" REF="43"> tho&s;e unprovided Inhabitants, and more they took Pri&s;oners. This Body of <HI>Indians,</HI> Con&s;i&s;t|ing of diver&s;e Hundreds, then &s;ent in their <HI>Sum|mons,</HI> to &s;ome of the <HI>Garri&s;on'd Hou&s;es;</HI> and tho&s;e <HI>Garri&s;ons</HI> whereof &s;ome had no more than Two or Three <HI>Men</HI> in them, yet being &s;o well <HI>Mann'd,</HI> as to Reply, <HI>That they would Spend their Blood unto the la&s;t Drop, e're they would Surrender;</HI> the&s;e Cowardly Mi&s;creants had not mettle enough to meddle with 'em. So they Retired into their Howling Thickets, having fir&s;t <HI>Murdered</HI> about <HI>Fifty,</HI> and <HI>Captived</HI> near an <HI>Hundred,</HI> of that un|happy People. In this Calamity, great was the Share, that fell to the Family of Mr. SHUBAEL DUMMER, the Pa&s;tor of the <HI>Little Flock</HI> thus prey'd upon Tho&s;e Blood-Hounds, being &s;et on by &s;ome <HI>Romi&s;h Mi&s;&s;ionaries,</HI> had long been wi&s;hing, that they might Em<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e their Hands, in the Blood of &s;ome <HI>New Engli&s;h MINISTER;</HI> and in this Action, they had their Diabolical Sa|tisfaction. Our <HI>Dummer,</HI> the Mini&s;ter of <HI>York,</HI> was One, of whom, for his Exemplary Holin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, Humblene&s;s, Mode&s;ty, Indu&s;try, and Fidelity, <HI>The World was not Worthy.</HI> He was a Gentleman <HI>Well</HI>-De&s;cended, <HI>Well</HI>-Tempered, <HI>Well</HI>-Educated; and now &s;hort of Sixty years of Age. He might have taken for his <HI>Coat of Arms,</HI> the &s;ame that the Holy Martyr <HI>Hooper</HI> Prophetically did, <HI>A Lamb in a Flaming Bu&s;h, with Rayes from Heaven &s;hining <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n it.</HI> He had been Sollicited with many
<PB N="85" REF="43"> Temptations, to <HI>Leave his Place,</HI> when the Clouds grew Thick and Black, in the <HI>Indian Ho&s;tilities,</HI> and were like to break upon it; but he cho&s;e rather, with a paternal Affection to &s;tay a|mong&s;t tho&s;e, who had been, &s;o many of them, Converted and Edified by his Mini&s;try; and he &s;pent very much of his own <HI>Patramony</HI> to Sub&s;i&s;t among them, when their Di&s;tre&s;&s;es made them unable to &s;upport him, as otherwi&s;e they would have done. In a word, He was one that might, by way of Eminency, be called, <HI>A Good Man.</HI> This <HI>Good Man</HI> was ju&s;t going to Take Hor&s;e, at his own Door, upon a Journey in the Service of God, when the <HI>Tygres,</HI> that were making their Depredations upon the <HI>Sheep</HI> of <HI>York,</HI> Siez'd upon this their <HI>Shepherd;</HI> &amp; they &s;hot him &s;o, that they left him Dead among the Tribe of <HI>Abel,</HI> on the Ground. Thus was he, as <HI>Ambro&s;e</HI> in his Elegant Oration, <HI>De obitu Fratris,</HI> Expre&s;&s;es it, <HI>Non nobis ereptus, &s;ed periculis.</HI> His <HI>Wife</HI> they carried into Captivity, where through Sorrows and Hard&s;hips among tho&s;e <HI>Dragons of the De|&s;art,</HI> &s;he al&s;o quickly Dyed; and his <HI>Church,</HI> as many of them, as were in that Captivity, Endur|ed This, among other Angui&s;hes, that on the Next <HI>Lord Day,</HI> one of the Tawnies, cho&s;e to Ex|hibit him&s;elf unto them, <HI>[A Devil as an Angel of Light!]</HI> in the <HI>Cloaths,</HI> whereof they had Stript the Dead Body of this their <HI>Father.</HI> Many were the <HI>Tears,</HI> that were dropt throughout <HI>New-England,</HI>
<PB N="86" REF="44"> on this Occa&s;ion; and <HI>The&s;e</HI> among the re&s;t: for, tho' we do not, as Tradition tells us, the <HI>Antediluvians</HI> did u&s;e to do, <HI>By the Blood of <HI>Abel,</HI></HI> yet we cannot but mournfully, <HI>Sing of the Blood of &s;uch an <HI>Abel.</HI></HI></P>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD>EPITAPH.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>DVmmer,</HI> The <HI>Shepherd</HI> Sacrific'd,</L>
<L>By <HI>Wolves,</HI> becau&s;e the <HI>Sheep</HI> he priz'd.</L>
<L>The <HI>Orphans</HI> Father, <HI>Churches</HI> Light,</L>
<L>The <HI>Love</HI> of <HI>Heav'n,</HI> of <HI>Hell</HI> the <HI>Spite.</HI></L>
<L>The Countrys <HI>Gapman,</HI> and the <HI>Face,</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>Shone,</HI> but knew it not, with <HI>Grace.</HI></L>
<L>Hunted by <HI>Devils,</HI> but Reliev'd</L>
<L>By <HI>Angels,</HI> and on High Receiv'd.</L>
<L>The Martyr'd <HI>Pelican,</HI> who Bled</L>
<L>Rather than leave his Charge Unfed.</L>
<L>A proper <HI>Bird of Paradi&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Shot, and Flow'n thither in a Trice.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Lord,</HI> Hear the Cry of <HI>Righteous <HI>Dummers</HI></HI> wounds</L>
<L>A&s;cending &s;till again&s;t the <HI>Salvage Hounds,</HI></L>
<L>That Worry thy dear <HI>Flocks;</HI> and let the <HI>Cry</HI></L>
<L>Add Force to <HI>Theirs,</HI> that at thine <HI>Altar</HI> ly.</L>
</LG>
<P>To Compleat the <HI>Epitaph</HI> of this Good man, there now needs no more, than the famous old <HI>Chancers</HI> Motto,
<Q>Mors mihi aerumnarum Requies.</Q></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="article">
<PB N="87" REF="44">
<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. XVI.</HI> The Memorable Action at <HI>Wells.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Ve&s;&s;el, the Name whereof I know not, [Reader, Let it be, <HI>The Charity,</HI>] being immediately di&s;patched unto <HI>Sagadehock,</HI> by the <HI>Charitable Compa&s;&s;ions</HI> of the more Southward Neighbours, with Effects to accompli&s;h it, hap|pily Effected the Redemption of many that were taken Captives at <HI>York.</HI> But the re&s;t of the Peo|ple in that Broken Town, talking of Drawing off, the Government &s;ent Captain <HI>Convers</HI> and Captain <HI>Greenleaf,</HI> with &s;uch Encouragements unto them, to keep their <HI>Station,</HI> as prevailed with 'em &s;till to <HI>Stand</HI> their Ground. In <HI>February</HI> Major <HI>Hutchin&s;on,</HI> was made Commander in Chief, &amp; Forces under the Command of Captain <HI>Convers,</HI> Captain <HI>Floyd,</HI> and Captain <HI>Thaxter,</HI> were by him &s;o prudently po&s;ted, on the <HI>Frontiers,</HI> that by mentaining a continual Communication, it be|came a Difficult Thing for the Enemy to make any more Approaches. Lieutenant <HI>Wil&s;on</HI> parti|cularly hearing of a man Shot at, in <HI>Quochecho</HI>-Woods, went out with a Scout of about Eighteen men, who came upon the <HI>Indians</HI> that had &s;hot at the man; and killed and wounded <HI>all</HI> but <HI>one,</HI> of the whole Company. But now, <HI>Reader,</HI> the <HI>Longe&s;t Day</HI> in the <HI>Year</HI> is come on, and, it I
<PB N="88" REF="45"> mi&s;take not, the <HI>Bravest Act</HI> in the <HI>War,</HI> fell out upon it. <HI>Modockawando</HI> is now come, according to his Promi&s;e a Twelve Month ago. Captain <HI>Convers,</HI> was lodg'd in <HI>Storers</HI> Garri&s;on at <HI>Wells,</HI> with but Fifteen men; and there came into <HI>Wells,</HI> Two Sloops, with a Shallop, which had aboard Supplies of <HI>Ammunition</HI> for the Souldiers, and <HI>Contribution</HI> for the Needy. The <HI>Cattel</HI> this Day came <HI>Frighted,</HI> and <HI>Bleeding</HI> but of the Woods, which was a more certain <HI>Omen</HI> of <HI>Indians</HI> a coming, than all the <HI>Prodigies</HI> that <HI>Livy</HI> reports of the <HI>Sacrificed Oxen. Convers</HI> immediately i&s;&s;ued out his Commands unto all Quarters, but e&s;peci|ally to the <HI>Sloops</HI> ju&s;t then arrived. The <HI>Sloops</HI> were Commanded by <HI>Samuel Storer,</HI> and <HI>James Gouge,</HI> and <HI>Gouges</HI> being Two miles up the <HI>River,</HI> he wi&s;ely brought her down undi&s;covered, unto <HI>Storers,</HI> by the advantage of a Mi&s;t then prevail|ing. A careful <HI>Night,</HI> they had on't! The next <HI>Morning,</HI> before <HI>Day-Light,</HI> one <HI>John Dia|mond,</HI> a Stranger that came in the Shallop on a Vi&s;it, came to Captain <HI>Conver's</HI> Garri&s;on, where the Watch invited him in; but he cho&s;e rather to go aboard the Sloops, which were little more than a Gun-&s;hot off; and, alas, the Enemy i&s;&s;u|ing out from their Lurking places, immediately Siez'd him, and haled him away by the Hair of the Head, (in &s;pite of all Attempts u&s;ed by the Garri&s;on, to Recover him) for an <HI>horrible Story,</HI> to be told by'nd by concerning him. The Gene|ral
<PB N="89" REF="45"> of the Enemies Army was Mon&s;ieur <HI>Burniff;</HI> and one Mon&s;ieur <HI>Labrocree</HI> was a principal Commander; (the Enemy &s;aid, he was Lieute|nant General:) There were al&s;o Diver&s;e other Frenchmen of Quality; Accompanied with <HI>Mo|dockawando,</HI> and <HI>Moxus,</HI> and <HI>Egeremet,</HI> and <HI>Warum|bo,</HI> and &s;everal more Indian Sagamores; The Army made up in all, about Five Hundred <HI>Men,</HI> or Fierce Things in the Shape of <HI>Men;</HI> all, to Encounter Fifteen <HI>Men,</HI> in one little <HI>Garri&s;on,</HI> &amp; about Fifteen more <HI>Men,</HI> [worthily called <HI>Such!</HI>] in a Couple of open <HI>Sloops. Diamond</HI> having in|formed 'em, <HI>How t'was,</HI> in all points, (only that for <HI>Fifteen,</HI> by a mi&s;take he &s;aid, <HI>Thirty,</HI>) they fell to Dividing the Per&s;ons and Plunder, and A|greeing, that &s;uch an <HI>Engli&s;h Captain,</HI> &s;hould be Slave to &s;uch a one, and &s;uch a Gentleman in the Town &s;hould &s;erve &s;uch a one, and his <HI>Wife</HI> be a <HI>Maid of Honour,</HI> to &s;uch or &s;uch a <HI>Squaw</HI> propo&s;ed, and Mr. <HI>Wheelright</HI> (in&s;tead of being a Worthy Coun&s;ellor of the Province, which he <HI>Now</HI> is!) was to be the Servant of &s;uch a <HI>Netop;</HI> and the <HI>Sloops,</HI> with their <HI>Stores,</HI> to be &s;o and &s;o parted among them. There wanted but <HI>One Thing</HI> to Con&s;ummate the whole matter, even, the <HI>Chief Thing</HI> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> all, which I &s;uppo&s;e they had not thought of; That was, For <HI>Heaven</HI> to Deli|ver all this prize into their Hands: But, <HI>Aliter Statutum e&s;t in Caelo!</HI> A man Habited, like a Gentleman, made a <HI>Speech</HI> to them in Engli&s;h;
<PB N="90" REF="46"> Exhorting 'em to Courage, and A&s;&s;uring 'em, that if they would Courageou&s;ly fall upon the Engli&s;h, all was their own. The <HI>Speech</HI> being Ended, they fell to the <HI>Work,</HI> and with an horrid Shout and Shot, made their A&s;&s;ault, upon the Feeble <HI>Garri&s;on:</HI> but the Engli&s;h an&s;wered with a brisk Volley, and &s;ent &s;uch a Leaden Showre among them, that they retired from the <HI>Garri|&s;on</HI> to &s;pend the Storm of their Fury upon the <HI>Sloops.</HI> You mu&s;t know, That <HI>Wells-Harbour</HI> is rather a <HI>Creek</HI> than a <HI>River,</HI> for 'tis very Nar|row, and at low water, in many places <HI>Dry:</HI> neverthele&s;s, where the Ve&s;&s;els ride, it is <HI>Deep</HI> enough, and &s;o far off the Bank, that there is from thence no Leaping aboard. But our <HI>Sloops</HI> were &s;orely incommoded, by a Turn of the <HI>Creek,</HI> where the Enemy could ly out of danger, &s;o near 'em, as to throw Mud aboard with their Hands. The Enemy was al&s;o privi|ledged with a Great Heap of <HI>Plank,</HI> lying on the Bank, and with an <HI>Hay Stock,</HI> which they Streng|thened with <HI>Posts,</HI> and <HI>Rayles;</HI> and from all the&s;e places, they poured in their Vengeance upon the poor <HI>Sloops,</HI> while they &s;o placed Smaller parties of their Salvages, as to make it impo&s;&s;ible for any of the Garri&s;ons, to afford 'em any relief. Lying thus, within a Dozen yards of the <HI>Sloops,</HI> they did with their <HI>Fire Arrows,</HI> diver&s;e times de&s;perately &s;et the <HI>Sloops</HI> on Fire: but the brave Defendents, with a <HI>Swab,</HI> at the End of a <HI>Rope,</HI>
<PB N="91" REF="46"> tyed unto a <HI>Pole,</HI> and &s;o dip't into the <HI>Water,</HI> happily put the Fire out. In brief the <HI>Sloops</HI> gave the Enemy &s;o brave a Repul&s;e, that at Night they Retreated: when they Renewed their A&s;&s;ault, finding that their <HI>Fortitude</HI> would not a&s;&s;ure the Succe&s;s of the A&s;&s;ault unto them, they had recour&s;e unto their <HI>Policy.</HI> Fir&s;t, an <HI>Indian</HI> comes on, with a <HI>Slab,</HI> for a <HI>Shield,</HI> before him; when a Shot from one of the <HI>Sloops,</HI> pierc|ed the <HI>Slab,</HI> which fell down, in&s;tead of a <HI>Tomb|&s;tone</HI> with the Dead <HI>Indian</HI> under it: on which, as little a Fellow as he was, I know not whe|ther &s;ome will not reckon it proper to in&s;cribe the <HI>Epitaph,</HI> which the <HI>Italians</HI> u&s;e to be&s;tow upon their <HI>Dead Popes; When the Dog is Dead, all his Malice is Dead with him.</HI> Their next <HI>Stra|tagem</HI> was This: They brought out of the Woods, a kind of a <HI>Cart,</HI> which they Trim'd, and Rigg'd, and Fitted up into a Thing, that might be called, <HI>A Chariot:</HI> whereon they built a platform, &s;hot|proof in the Front, and placed many men upon that platform. Such an Engine they under&s;tood how to Shape, without having Read, (I &s;uppo&s;e) the De&s;cription of the <HI>Pluteus</HI> in <HI>Vegetius!</HI> This <HI>Chariot</HI> they pu&s;h'd on, towards the <HI>Sloops,</HI> till they were got, it may be, within <HI>Fifteen yards</HI> of them; when, lo, one of the <HI>Wheels</HI> to their Admiration Sunk into the Ground. A <HI>French|man</HI> Stepping to heave the <HI>Wheel,</HI> with an Help|ful Shoulder, <HI>Storer</HI> Shot <HI>him</HI> down; Another
<PB N="92" REF="47"> Stepping to the <HI>Wheel, Storer</HI> with a well placed Shot, &s;ent <HI>him</HI> after his <HI>Mate:</HI> So the Re&s;t thought, it was be&s;t let it &s;tand as it was. The Enemy kept Galling the <HI>Sloops,</HI> from their Several Batte|ries, and calling 'em to Surrender, with many fine promi&s;es to make them <HI>Happy,</HI> which ours an&s;wered with a ju&s;t <HI>Laughter,</HI> that had now and then a mortiferous <HI>Bullet</HI> at the End of it. The Tide Ri&s;ing, the <HI>Chariot</HI> over&s;et, &s;o that the men behind it lay open to the <HI>Sloops,</HI> which im|mediately Di&s;pen&s;ed an horrible Slaughter among them; and they that could get away, got as fa&s;t, and as far off, as they could. In the Night, the Enemy had much Di&s;cour&s;e with the <HI>Sloops;</HI> they Enquired, <HI>Who were their Commanders?</HI> and the Engli&s;h gave an An&s;wer, which in &s;ome other Ca&s;es, and Places, would have been too true, <HI>That they had a great many Commanders:</HI> but the Indians Replyed, <HI>You ly, you have none but</HI> Convers, <HI>and we will have him too before Morning!</HI> They al&s;o knowing, that the <HI>Magazine</HI> was in the <HI>Garri&s;on,</HI> lay under an Hill-Side, Pelting at <HI>That,</HI> by Times; but Captain <HI>Convers,</HI> once in the Night, &s;ent out Three or Four of his men, into a Field of Wheat, for a <HI>Shot,</HI> if they could get one. <HI>There</HI> &s;eeing a <HI>Black Heap</HI> lying together, Ours all at once let Fly upon them, a <HI>Shot,</HI> that Slew &s;everal of them that were thus <HI>Caught in that Corn,</HI> and made the re&s;t glad, that they found them&s;elves Able to Run for it. Captain <HI>Convers</HI>
<PB N="93" REF="47"> was this while in much Di&s;tre&s;s, about a <HI>Scout</HI> of Six men, which he had &s;ent forth to <HI>Newicha|wannick,</HI> the Morning before the Arrival of the Enemy, ordering them to <HI>Return</HI> the Day follow|ing. The Scout <HI>Return'd,</HI> into the very Mouth of the Enemy, that lay before the Garri&s;on; but the <HI>Corporal,</HI> having his Wits about him, call'd out aloud, (as if he had &s;een Captain <HI>Convers</HI> making a Salley forth upon 'em,) <HI>Captain, Wheel about your men round the Hill, and we &s;hall Catch 'em, there are but a Few Rogues of 'em!</HI> Upon which the <HI>Indians</HI> imagining, that Captain <HI>Con|vers</HI> had been at their <HI>Heels,</HI> betook them&s;elves to their <HI>Heels;</HI> and our Folks got &s;afe into ano|ther Garri&s;on. On the <HI>Lords Day</HI> Morning, there was for a while, a Deep Silence among the A&s;|&s;ailants; but at length getting into a Body, they marched with great Formality towards the <HI>Gar|ri&s;on,</HI> where the Captain ordered his Handful of men to ly Snug, and not make a <HI>Shot,</HI> until every <HI>Shot</HI> might be likely to do &s;ome Execution. While they thus beheld a Formidable Crue of <HI>Dragons,</HI> coming with open mouth upon them, to Swallow them up at a Mouthful, one of the Souldiers began to &s;peak of <HI>Surrendring;</HI> upon which the Captain Vehemently prote&s;ted, <HI>That he would lay the man Dead, who &s;hould &s;o much as mutter that ba&s;e word any more!</HI> and &s;o they heard no more on't: But the Valiant <HI>Storer</HI> was put upon the like prote&s;tation, to keep 'em in good
<PB N="94" REF="48"> Fighting trim, aboard the <HI>Sloops</HI> al&s;o. The E|nemy now Approaching very near, gave Three Shouts, that made the Earth ring again; and Crying out, in Engli&s;h, <HI>Fire, and Fall on, Brave Boyes!</HI> the whole Body, drawn into Three Ranks, Fired at once. Captain <HI>Convers</HI> immediately ran into the &s;everal Flankers, and made their Be&s;t Guns Fire at &s;uch a rate, that &s;everal of the E|nemy fell, and the re&s;t of 'em di&s;appeared almo&s;t as Nimbly, as if they had been &s;o many <HI>Spectres.</HI> Particularly, a parcel of them got into a &s;mall De&s;erted Hou&s;e; which having but a Board-Wall to it, the Captain &s;ent in after them, tho&s;e <HI>Bullets</HI> of Twelve to the Pound, that made the Hou&s;e too hot, for them that could get out of it. The <HI>Women</HI> in the Garri&s;on, on this occa&s;ion took up the <HI>Amazonian</HI> Stroke, and not only brought Ammunition to the <HI>Men,</HI> but al&s;o with a <HI>Manly</HI> Re&s;olution fired &s;everal Times upon the Enemy. The Enemy finding that Things would not yet go to their minds, at the <HI>Garri&s;on,</HI> drew off, to Try their Skill upon the <HI>Sloops,</HI> which lay &s;till abre&s;t in the Creek, la&s;h'd fa&s;t one to another. They built a Great <HI>Fire Work,</HI> about Eighteen or Twenty Foot Square, and fill'd it up with Com|bu&s;tible matter, which they Fired; and then they &s;et it in the way, for the <HI>Tide</HI> now to Flote it up, unto the <HI>Sloops,</HI> which had now nothing but an horrible <HI>Death</HI> before them. Neverthe|le&s;s, their Demands, of both the <HI>Garri&s;on,</HI> and
<PB N="95" REF="48"> the <HI>Sloops,</HI> to yield them&s;elves, were an&s;wered no otherwi&s;e than with <HI>Death</HI> upon many of them, Spit from the Guns of the Be&s;eiged. Having tow'd their <HI>Fire-Work,</HI> as far as they dur&s;t, they committed it unto the <HI>Tide;</HI> but the Di&s;tre&s;|&s;ed Chri&s;tians that had this Deadly <HI>Fire,</HI> Swim|ming along upon the <HI>Water</HI> towards 'em, com|mitted it unto <HI>God:</HI> and <HI>God</HI> looked from Hea|ven upon them, in this prodigious Article of their Di&s;tre&s;s. <HI>The&s;e poor men Cryed, and the Lord, heard them, and &s;aved them out of their Troubles;</HI> The <HI>Wind,</HI> unto their A&s;toni&s;hment, immediately Turn'd about, and with a Fre&s;h Gale drove the <HI>Machin</HI> a&s;hore on the other &s;ide, and Split it &s;o, that the <HI>Water</HI> being let in upon it, the <HI>Fire</HI> went out. So, the Godly men, that Saw God from Heaven thus Fighting for them, Cryed out, with an A&s;toni&s;hing Joy, <HI>If it had not been the Lord, who was on our Side, they had Swallowed us up quick; Ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord, who hath not given us a prey to their Teeth; our Soul is E&s;caped, as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowlers!</HI> The Enemy were now in a pittiful pickle, with Toyling, and Moyling in the <HI>Mud,</HI> &amp; black'ned with it, if <HI>Mud</HI> could add <HI>Blackne&s;s</HI> to &s;uch Mi&s;creants: and their Ammunition was pretty well Exhau&s;ted: So that now they began to Draw off, in all parts, and with Rafts get over the River; &s;ome whereof breaking, there did not a few <HI>Cool</HI> their late <HI>Heat</HI> by falling into it. But fir&s;t, they made
<PB N="96" REF="49"> all the Spoil they could, upon the <HI>Cattel</HI> about the Town; and giving one Shot more at the <HI>Sloops,</HI> they kill'd the only <HI>Man,</HI> of ours, that was kill'd aboard 'em. Then, after about Half an Hours Con&s;ultation, they &s;end a <HI>Flag of Truce</HI> to the Garri&s;on, advi&s;ing 'em with much Flatte|ry, to <HI>Surrender;</HI> but the Captain &s;ent 'em word, <HI>That he wanted for nothing, but for men to come, and Fight him.</HI> The <HI>Indian</HI> replyed unto Captain <HI>Convers, Being you are &s;o Stout, why don't you come, and Fight in the open Field, like a Man, and not Fight in a Garri&s;on, like a Squaw?</HI> The Cap|tain rejoyned; <HI>What a Fool, are you? Do you think, Thirty men a Match for Five Hundred? No,</HI> (&s;ayes the Captain, counting as well he might, each of his <HI>Fifteen</HI> men, to be as Good as <HI>Two!) Come with your Thirty men upon the Plain, and I'le meet you with my Thirty, as &s;oon as you will.</HI> Upon this, the <HI>Indian</HI> an&s;wered; <HI>Nay, mee own, Engli&s;h Fa&s;hi|on is all one Fool; you kill mee, mee kill you! No, better ly &s;ome where, and Shoot a man, and hee no &s;ee! That the be&s;t Souldier!</HI> Then they fell to Coak&s;ing the Captain, with as many <HI>Fine Words,</HI> as the <HI>Fox</HI> in the Fable had for the Allurement of his Prey unto him; and urged mightily that En&s;ign <HI>Hill,</HI> who &s;tood with the <HI>Flag of Truce,</HI> might &s;tand a little nearer their Army. The Captain, for a Good Rea&s;on, to be pre&s;ently di&s;|cerned, would not allow <HI>That:</HI> whereupon they fell to Threatning, and Raging, like &s;o many
<PB N="97" REF="49"> Defeated Devils, u&s;ing the&s;e Words, <HI>Damn ye, we'll cut you as &s;mall as Tobacco, before to morrow Morning.</HI> The Captain, bid 'em to make Ha&s;t, for, <HI>he wanted work;</HI> So, the Indian throwing his Flag on the Ground, ran away, and En&s;ign <HI>Hill</HI> nimbly Stripping his Flag ran into the <HI>Valley,</HI> but the Salvages pre&s;ently Fired, from an Ambu&s;h|ment behind an <HI>Hill,</HI> near the place, where they had urged for a <HI>Parley.</HI></P>
<P>And now for poor <HI>John Diamond!</HI> The Ene|my Retreating (which opportunity the <HI>Sloops</HI> took, to Burn down the Dangerous <HI>Hay-Stock,</HI>) into the plain, out of Gun-&s;hot, they fell to Tor|turing their Captive <HI>John Diamond,</HI> after a man|ner very Diabolical. They <HI>Stripped</HI> him, they <HI>Scalped</HI> him alive, and after a <HI>Castration,</HI> they Fini&s;hed that Article in the Puni&s;hment of <HI>Trai|tors</HI> upon him; They Slit him with <HI>Knives,</HI> be|tween his <HI>Fingers</HI> and his <HI>Toes;</HI> They made cruel <HI>Ga&s;hes</HI> in the mo&s;t Fle&s;hy parts of his Body, and &s;tuck the Ga&s;hes with <HI>Fire-brands,</HI> which were afterwards found Sticking in the wounds. Thus they Butchered <HI>One</HI> poor Engli&s;hman, with all the <HI>Fury</HI> that they would have &s;pent upon them <HI>all;</HI> and performed an Exploit, for Five Hun|dred <HI>Furies</HI> to brag of, at their coming home. Gha&s;tly to <HI>Expre&s;s!</HI> what was it then to <HI>Suffer?</HI> They Returned then unto the <HI>Garri&s;on,</HI> and kept Firing at it now and then, till near Ten a Clock at Night; when they all marched off, leaving
<PB N="98" REF="50"> behind 'em &s;ome of their Dead; whereof one was Mon&s;ieur <HI>Labocree,</HI> who had about his <HI>Neck,</HI> a Pouch with about a Dozen <HI>Reliques</HI> ingeniou&s;ly made up, and a Printed Paper of <HI>Indulgences,</HI> and &s;everal other Implements: but it &s;eems, none of the <HI>Amulets</HI> about his <HI>Neck,</HI> would &s;ave him from a <HI>Mortal Shot</HI> in the <HI>Head.</HI> Thus in Forty Eight Hours, was Fini&s;hed an Action as Worthy to be Related, as perhaps any that occurs in our Story. And it was not long before the Va|liant <HI>Gouge,</HI> who bore his part in this Action, did another that was not much inferiour to it, when he &s;uddenly Recovered from the French a valuable prey, which they had newly taken upon our Coa&s;t.</P>
<P>I doubt, Reader we have made this <HI>Article</HI> of our Hi&s;tory a little too long. We will fini&s;h it, when we have Remark'd, That albeit there were too much <HI>Feeblene&s;s</HI> di&s;covered by my Countrey|men, in &s;ome of their Actions, during this War, at <HI>Sea,</HI> as well as on <HI>Shore,</HI> yet &s;everal of their Actions, e&s;pecially at <HI>Sea,</HI> de&s;erve to be Re|membred. And I cannot but particularly be|&s;peak a Remembrance, for the Exploit perform|ed by &s;ome of my Neighbours, in a Ve&s;&s;el going into <HI>Barbadoes</HI> They were in &s;ight of <HI>Bar|badoes</HI> a&s;&s;aulted by a <HI>French Ve&s;&s;el,</HI> which had a good number of Guns, and between <HI>Sixty</HI> and <HI>Seventy</HI> Hands. Our Ve&s;&s;el had Four Guns, and <HI>Eight Fighting Men.</HI> [Truly <HI>&s;uch!</HI>] with
<PB N="99" REF="50"> two Tawny Servants. The Names of the&s;e <HI>Men,</HI> were <HI>Barret, Sunderland, Knoles, Na&s;h, Morgan, Fo&s;dyke,</HI> and Two more, that I now forget. A de&s;perate Engagement en&s;ued: where|in our <HI>Eight</HI> Marriners managed the matter with &s;uch Bravery, that by the Help of Heaven, they killed between <HI>Thirty</HI> and <HI>Forty</HI> of the <HI>French A&s;&s;ailants,</HI> without loo&s;ing one of their own little Number: And they &s;ank the <HI>French Ve&s;&s;el,</HI> which lay by their &s;ide, out of which they took <HI>Twenty Seven</HI> pri&s;oners, whereof <HI>&s;ome</HI> were wounded, and <HI>all</HI> crying for <HI>Quarter.</HI> In the Fight the <HI>French Pennant,</HI> being by the wind fa&s;tned about the Top Ma&s;t of the En|gli&s;h Ve&s;&s;el, it was torn off by the &s;inking of the French Ve&s;&s;el, and left plea&s;ently flying there. So they Sail'd into <HI>Barbadoes;</HI> where the <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> voted them one Publick Acknowledge|ment, of their Courage and Conduct, in this Brave Action, and our <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> now gives them Another.</P>
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<HEAD>ARTICLE. XVII. <HI>The Fort at</HI> Pemmaquid.</HEAD>
<P>HIs Excellency Sir <HI>William Phipps,</HI> being ar|rived now the Governour of <HI>New Eng|land,</HI> applyed him&s;elf, with all po&s;&s;ible Vigour, to carry on the <HI>War:</HI> and the Advice of a New
<PB N="100" REF="51"> Slaughter &s;ome time in <HI>July</HI> made by the <HI>Indi|ans,</HI> on certain poor Husband-men, in their Mea|dows, at the North Side of <HI>Merrimack</HI> River, put an Accent upon the Zeal of the De&s;igns, which he was now vigorou&s;ly pro&s;ecuting. He Rai&s;ed about Four hundred and Fifty Men, and in pur&s;uance of his In&s;tructions from <HI>White|hall,</HI> he laid the Foundations of a Fort at <HI>Pem|maquid,</HI> which was the Fine&s;t Thing that had been &s;een in the&s;e parts of <HI>America.</HI> Captain <HI>Wing,</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;ted with Captain <HI>Bancroft,</HI> went thro' the former part of the Work; and the latter part of it was Fini&s;hed by Captain <HI>March.</HI> His Ex|cellency, attended in this matter, with the&s;e worthy Captains, did, in a few Months, di&s;|patch a Service for the King, with a <HI>Prudence,</HI> &amp; <HI>Indu&s;try,</HI> and <HI>Thirftine&s;s,</HI> Greater than any <HI>Reward,</HI> they ever had for it. The Fort, called, The <HI>William Henry,</HI> was built of Stone, in a <HI>Quadran|gular</HI> Figure; being about <HI>Seven hundred and thirty &s;even</HI> Foot in Compa&s;s, without the <HI>Outer Walls,</HI> and an <HI>Hundred and Eight</HI> Foot Square, within the <HI>Inner</HI> ones. <HI>Twenty Eight</HI> Ports it had; and <HI>Fourteen</HI> (if not <HI>Eighteen</HI>) Guns mounted, whereof Six were <HI>Eighteen-Pounders.</HI> The Wall, on the South Line, fronting to the Sea, was <HI>Twenty Two</HI> Foot <HI>High,</HI> and more than <HI>Six</HI> Foot <HI>Thick</HI> at the Ports, which were <HI>Eight</HI> Foot from the Ground. The Great Flanker, or Round Tower, at the <HI>We&s;tern</HI> End of this Line, was
<PB N="101" REF="51"> <HI>Twenty Nine Foot</HI> High. The <HI>Wall</HI> on the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> line, was <HI>Twelve</HI> Foot High, on the <HI>North</HI> it was <HI>Ten,</HI> on the <HI>We&s;t</HI> it was <HI>Eighteen.</HI> It was Computed, That in the whole, there were laid above <HI>Two Thou&s;and Cart-Loads</HI> of Stone. It &s;tood about a Score of Rods from <HI>High Water Mark;</HI> and it had generally at lea&s;t <HI>Sixty men</HI> po&s;ted in it, for its Defence, which if they were <HI>Men,</HI> might ea&s;ily have maintained it again&s;t more than <HI>Twice Six Hundred</HI> A&s;&s;ailants. Yea, we were almo&s;t Ready to flatter our &s;elves, that we might have writ on the Gates of this Fort, as the French did over that of <HI>Namur,</HI> (yet after|wards taken by K. <HI>William) Reddi, non Vinci po|test.</HI> Now, as the Architect, that built the Strong Fortre&s;s at <HI>Narne</HI> in <HI>Poland</HI> had, for his Recom|pence, his Eyes put out, le&s;t he &s;hould build &s;uch another; Sir <HI>William Phipps</HI> was almo&s;t as hard|ly Recompenced, for the Building of This at <HI>Pemmaquid.</HI> Although this Fort thus Erected in the <HI>Heart</HI> of the Enemies Country, did &s;o Break the <HI>Heart</HI> of the Enemy, that indeed they might have call'd it, as the French did theirs upon the River of the <HI>Illinois,</HI> The Fort of <HI>Crevecoeur;</HI> and the Tranquillity <HI>After</HI> Enjoy'd by the <HI>Country,</HI> (which was very much more than <HI>Before,</HI>) was, under God, much owing thereunto: yet the Ex|pence of maintaining it, when we were &s;o much impoveri&s;hed otherwi&s;e, made it continually complained of, as one of the <HI>Countryes Grievances.</HI>
<PB N="102" REF="52"> The Murmurings about this <HI>Fort,</HI> were &s;o Epi|demical, that, if we may &s;peak in the Fooli&s;h cant of <HI>A&s;trology,</HI> and, Progno&s;ticate from the A&s;pect of <HI>Saturn</HI> upon <HI>Mars,</HI> at its Nativity, <HI>Fort William-Henry, Thou ha&s;t not long to Live! Before the year</HI> Ninety Six <HI>Expire, thou &s;halt be demoli&s;hed.</HI> In the mean Time, let us accompany Major <HI>Church</HI> going with a Company to <HI>Penob&s;cot,</HI> where he took Five Indians; and afterwards, to <HI>Taco|net,</HI> where the <HI>Indians</HI> di&s;covering his Approach, &s;et their own <HI>Fort</HI> on fire them&s;elves, and flying from it, left only their <HI>Corn</HI> to be de&s;troy'd by <HI>him.</HI> And &s;o we come to the End of 1692. Only we are &s;topt a little, with a very &s;trange <HI>Parenthe&s;is.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. XVIII.</HI> A Surpri&s;ing Thing, laid before the Reader, for him to <HI>Judge,</HI> (if he <HI>can</HI>) what to make of it.</HEAD>
<P>REader, I mu&s;t now addre&s;s thee, with the <HI>Words</HI> of a Poet:
<Q><L>Dicam In&s;igne Recens, adhuc</L>
<L>Indictum ore alio. <BIBL><HI>Horat.</HI></BIBL></L></Q></P>
<P>But with <HI>Truths</HI> more confirmed, than what u&s;es to come from the Pen of a <HI>Poet.</HI> The Story of the Prodigious <HI>War,</HI> made by the <HI>Spirits</HI> of the <HI>Invi&s;ible World,</HI> upon the People of <HI>New Eng|land,</HI> in the year, 1692. hath Entertain'd a great
<PB N="103" REF="52"> part of the Engli&s;h World, with a ju&s;t A&s;toni&s;h|ment: and I have met with &s;ome Strange Things, not here to be mentioned, which have made me often think, that this inexplicable <HI>War,</HI> might have &s;ome of its Original among the <HI>In|dians,</HI> who&s;e chief <HI>Sagamores</HI> are well known un|to &s;ome of our Captives, to have been horrid <HI>Sorcerers,</HI> and helli&s;h <HI>Conjurers,</HI> and &s;uch as Con|ver&s;ed with <HI>Daemons.</HI> The Sum of that Story is, Written in, <HI>The Life of Sir</HI> William Phipps; with &s;uch Irreproachable Truth, as to Defy the utmo&s;t Malice and Cunning of all our <HI>Sadducees,</HI> to Confute it, in &s;o much as one Material Article: And that the Balant, and Latrant Noi&s;es of that &s;ort of People, may be forever Silenced, the Story will be abundantly Ju&s;tifyed, when the further Account written of it, by Mr. <HI>John Hale</HI> &s;hall be publi&s;hed: For none can &s;u&s;pect a Gen|tleman, &s;o full of Di&s;&s;atisfaction, at the proceed|ings then u&s;ed again&s;t the Suppo&s;ed <HI>Witchcraft,</HI> as Now that Reverend Per&s;on is, to be a <HI>Super|stitious Writer</HI> upon that Subject.</P>
<P>Now in the Time of that matchle&s;s <HI>War,</HI> there fell out a Thing at <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> which falls in here mo&s;t properly to be related: a Town &s;o Scitua|ted, Surrounded, and Neighboured, in the Coun|ty of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> that no man in his Witts, will ima|gine, that a Dozen <HI>French men</HI> and <HI>Indians,</HI> would come, and alarm the Inhabitants for Three weeks together, and Engage 'em in &s;everal Skirmi&s;hes,
<PB N="104" REF="53"> while there were two Regiments Rai&s;ed, and a Detachment of Three&s;core men &s;ent unto their Succour, and not one man Hurt in all the Actions, &amp; all End unaccountably. And becau&s;e the Relation will be Extraordinary, I will not be my &s;elf the Author of any one clau&s;e in it; but I will Tran&s;cribe the words of a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel, who did me the Favour, with much critical Caution to Examine <HI>Witne&s;&s;es,</HI> not long after the Thing happened, and then &s;ent me the Following Account.</P>
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<HEAD>A Faithful Account of many Wonderful and Sur|pri&s;ing Things, which happened in the <HI>Town</HI> of <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> in the Year, <HI>1692.</HI></HEAD>
<Q REND="margQuotes"><P><HI>EBenezer Bap&s;on,</HI> about mid&s;ummer, in the Year, 1692. with the re&s;t of his Fa|mily, almo&s;t every Night heard a Noi&s;e, as if per&s;ons were going and runing about his Hou&s;e. But one Night being abroad late, at his Return home, he &s;aw Two men come out of his Door, and run from the end of the Hou&s;e into the Corn. But tho&s;e of the Family told him, there had been no per&s;on at all there; where upon he got his Gun, and went out in pur&s;uit after them, and coming a little Di&s;tance from the Hou&s;e, he &s;aw the Two men &s;tart up from behind a Log, and run into a little Swamp, &s;aying to each other,
<PB N="105" REF="53"> <HI>The man of the Hou&s;e is Come, now El&s;e we might have taken the Hou&s;e.</HI> So, he heard, nor &s;aw, no more of them.</P>
<P>Upon this, the whole Family got up, and went with all &s;peed, to a Garri&s;on near by; and being ju&s;t got into the Garri&s;on, they heard men Stamping round the Garri&s;on. Whereupon <HI>Bap&s;on</HI> took his Gun, and ran out, and &s;aw Two men again Runing down an Hill into a Swamp. The next Night but one, the &s;aid <HI>Bap&s;on</HI> going toward a fre&s;h Meadow, &s;aw Two men, which looked like <HI>French men,</HI> one of them having a Bright Gun upon his Back, and both runing a great pace towards him, which cau&s;ed him to make the be&s;t of his way to the Garri&s;on, where being come &s;everal heard a Noi&s;e, as if men were Stamping and Running, not far from the Garri&s;on. With|in a Night or two after this, the per&s;ons in the Garri&s;on, heard a Noi&s;e, as if men were throwing Stones again&s;t the Barn. Not long after this, <HI>Bap&s;on,</HI> with <HI>John Brown,</HI> &s;aw Three men, about a Gun&s;hot off the Garri&s;on, which they endeavoured to Shoot at, but were di&s;ap|pointed by their Running to and fro, from the Corn into the Bu&s;hes. They were &s;een Two or Three Nights together; but though the a|bove&s;aid &s;trove to &s;hoot at them, they could never attain it. On <HI>July.</HI> 14. <HI>Bap&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Brown,</HI> with the re&s;t of the men in the Gar|ri&s;on,
<PB N="106" REF="54"> &s;aw within Gun-&s;hot, half a dozen men; whereupon all the men, but one, made Ha&s;t out of the Garri&s;on, marching towards them. <HI>Bap&s;on</HI> pre&s;ently overtook two of them, which run out of the Bu&s;hes, and coming clo&s;e to them, he pre&s;ented his Gun at them, and his Gun mi&s;&s;ing Fire, the Two men Returned into the Bu&s;hes. <HI>Bap&s;on</HI> then called unto the other per&s;ons, which were on the other &s;ide of the Swamp, and upon his call, they made An&s;wer, <HI>Here they are! Here they are! Bap&s;on</HI> then run|ning to meet them, Saw Three men walk &s;of<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly out of the Swamp by each others Side; the middlemo&s;t having on a white Wa&s;t coat. So, being within Two or Three Rod of them, he Shot, and as &s;oon as his <HI>Gun</HI> was off, they all fell down. <HI>Bap&s;on</HI> then running to his &s;uppo|&s;ed prey, cryed out unto his Companions, whom he heard on the other &s;ide of the Swamp, and &s;aid, <HI>He had kill'd Three! He had kill'd Three!</HI> But coming almo&s;t unto them, they all ro&s;e up, and one of them Shot at him, and hearing the Bullet why&s;s by him, he ran behind a Tree, and Loaded his Gun; and &s;eeing them lye be|hind a Log, he crept toward them again, tell|ing his Companions, <HI>they were here!</HI> So, his Companions came up to him, and they all Ran directly to the Log, with all &s;peed; but before they got thither, they &s;aw them &s;tart up, and run every man his way; One of them run into the Corn, whom they pur&s;ued, and
<PB N="107" REF="54"> hemm'd in; and <HI>Bap&s;on</HI> &s;eeing him coming to|ward him&s;elf, Shot at him, as he was getting over the Fence, and &s;aw him fall off the Fence on the Ground, but when he came to the Spot, he could not find him. So they all &s;earched the Corn; and as they were &s;earching; they heard a great Di&s;cour&s;ing in the Swamp, but could not under&s;tand what they &s;aid; for they &s;poke in an <HI>unknown Tongue.</HI> Afterwards, looking out from the Garri&s;on, they &s;aw &s;eve|ral men Skulking among the <HI>Corn,</HI> and <HI>Bu&s;hes,</HI> but could not have a Shot at them.</P>
<P>The next morning, ju&s;t at Day break, they &s;aw one man come out of the Swamp, not far from the Garri&s;on, and &s;tand clo&s;e up again&s;t the Fence, within Gun &s;hot. Whereupon <HI>I&s;aac Prince,</HI> with a long Gun, &s;hot at him with <HI>Swan|&s;hot,</HI> and in a moment he was gone out of &s;ight, they &s;aw him no more. Upon this, <HI>Bap&s;on</HI> went, to carry News to the Harbour; and being about Half a mile in his way thither, he heard a Gun go off, and heard a Bullet why&s;s clo&s;e by his Ear, which Cut off a Pine bu&s;h ju&s;t by him, and the Bullet lodg'd in an Hemlock Tree. Then looking about, he &s;aw Four men Running towards him, one with a Gun in his Hand, and the other with Guns on their Shoul|ders. So he ran into the Bu&s;hes, and turning about, &s;hot at them, and then ran away, &amp; &s;aw them no more. About Six men returned
<PB N="108" REF="55"> from the Harbour with him, &s;earching the woods as they went; and they &s;aw, where the <HI>Bullet</HI> had cut off the Pine bu&s;h, and where it was lodg'd in the Hemlock Tree, and they took the Bullet out, which is &s;till to be &s;een. When they were come to the Garri&s;on, they went to look for the Tracks of the Strange men, that had been &s;een, and &s;aw &s;everal Tracks; and whil&s;t they were looking on them, they &s;aw one, which look'd like an <HI>Indian,</HI> having on a Blue coat, and his Hair Ty'd up behind, Stand|ing by a Tree, and looking on them. But as &s;oon as they &s;pake to each other, he ran into a Swamp, and they after him, and one of them &s;hot at him; but to no purpo&s;e. One of them al&s;o &s;aw another, which look'd like a <HI>French man,</HI> but they quickly lo&s;t the &s;ight of him.</P>
<P><HI>July</HI> 15. <HI>Ezekiel Day,</HI> being in Company with &s;everal others, who were ordered to Scout the woods, when they came to a certain Fre&s;h Meadow, two miles from any Hou&s;e, at &s;ome Di&s;tance from the &s;aid Meadow, he &s;aw a man, which he apprehended to be an <HI>Indian,</HI> cloath|ed in Blue; and as &s;oon as he &s;aw him &s;tart up and run away, he &s;hot at him; whereupon he &s;aw another ri&s;e up a little way off, who al|&s;o run with &s;peed; which together with the former, were quickly out of &s;ight; and though him&s;elf, together with his Companions, diligent|ly
<PB N="109" REF="55"> &s;ought after them, they could not find them. The &s;ame Day, <HI>John Hammond,</HI> with &s;everal other per&s;ons, Scouting in the woods, &s;aw ano|ther of the&s;e <HI>Strange men,</HI> having on a blue Shirt, and white Breeches, and &s;omething about his Head; but could not overtake him.</P>
<P><HI>July</HI> 17. Three or Four of the&s;e <HI>Unaccounta|ble Troublers,</HI> came near the Garri&s;on; but they could not get a &s;hot at them. <HI>Richard Dolliver,</HI> al&s;o, &amp; <HI>Benjamin Ellary,</HI> creeping down an Hill, upon Di&s;covery, &s;aw &s;everal men come out of an Orchard, walking backward and forward, and &s;tricking with a &s;tick upon <HI>John Row's</HI> De&s;erted Hou&s;e, (the Noi&s;e of which, was heard by others at a Con&s;iderable Di&s;tance;) <HI>Ellery</HI> counting them, to be Eleven in all; <HI>Dol|liver</HI> Shot at the mid&s;t of them, where they &s;tood Thicke&s;t, and immediately they di&s;per&s;ed them&s;elves, and were quickly gone out of &s;ight.</P>
<P><HI>July</HI> 18. Which was the Time, that Major <HI>Appleton</HI> &s;ent about Sixty men, from <HI>Ip&s;wich,</HI> for the Towns A&s;&s;i&s;tance, under the&s;e <HI>inexplicable Alarms,</HI> which they had &s;uffered Night &amp; Day, for about a Fortnight together; <HI>John Day</HI> te&s;ti|fies, that he went in Company with <HI>Ip&s;wich</HI> and <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> Forces, to a Garri&s;on, about Two miles and an Half, from the Town; and News being brought in, that Guns went off, in a Swamp not far from the Garri&s;on, &s;ome of the men, with him&s;elf, ran to di&s;cover what they
<PB N="110" REF="56"> could; and when he came to the Head of the Swamp, he &s;aw a man with a Blue Shirt, and bu&s;hy black Hair, run out of the Swamp, and into the Woods; he ran after him, with all &s;peed, and came &s;everal Times within &s;hot of him; but the woods being Thick, he could not obtain his De&s;ign of Shooting him; at length, he was at once gone out of &s;ight, and when afterwards, he went to look for his Track, he could find none, though it were a low miry place, that he ran over.</P>
<P>About <HI>July</HI> 25. <HI>Bap&s;on</HI> went into the Woods, after his Cattel, and &s;aw Three men &s;tand up|on a point of Rocks, which look'd toward the Sea. So he crept among the Bu&s;hes, till he came within Forty yards of them; and then pre&s;ented his <HI>Gun</HI> at them, and Snap't, but his Gun mi&s;s'd Fire; and &s;o it did above a Dozen Times, till they all Three came up towards him, walking a &s;low pace, one of them having a Gun upon his Back. No<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> did they take any more Notice of him, than ju&s;t to give him a <HI>Look;</HI> though he &s;nap'd his Gun at them, all the while they walked toward him, and by him; neither did they quicken their pace at all, but went into a parcel of Bu&s;hes, and he &s;aw them no more. When he came home, he &s;nap'd his Gun &s;everal Times, &s;ometimes with but a few Corns of Powder and yet it did not once mi&s;s Fire. After this, there occurred &s;everal
<PB N="111" REF="56"> Strange Things; but now concluding they were but <HI>Spectres,</HI> they took little further No|tice of them.</P></Q>
<P>[Several other Te&s;timonies, all to the &s;ame Effect, with the Foregoing, my Friend has add|ed, which for brevity I omit; and only add, The mo&s;t con&s;iderable of the&s;e pa&s;&s;ages, were afterward Sworn, before one of Their Maje&s;ties Council.]</P>
<Q REND="margQuotes"><P>Reverend and truly Honoured Sir, Accord|ing to your Reque&s;t, I have Collected a brief Account of the Occurrences, remark'd in our Town, the la&s;t year. Some of them are very Admirable Things, and yet no le&s;s True than Strange, if we may Believe the A&s;&s;ertions of Credible per&s;ons. Tho' becau&s;e of Great Ha&s;t, it is a rough Draught, yet there is nothing written, but what the per&s;ons mentioned, would, if duely called, confirm the Truth of, by <HI>Oath.</HI></P>
<P>I might have given you a larger Account; only &s;everal who Saw and Heard &s;ome of the mo&s;t Remarkable things, are now beyond Sea. However, I hope, the Sub&s;tance of what is written, will be enough to Satisfy all Rational Per&s;ons, that <HI>Glocester</HI> was not Alarumed la&s;t Summer, for above a Fortnight together, by real <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Indians,</HI> but that the <HI>Devil</HI> and his Agents, were the cau&s;e of all the Mole&s;tati|on, which at this Time befel the Town; in the Name of who&s;e Inhabitants, I would take
<PB N="112" REF="57"> upon me, to Entreat your Earne&s;t Prayers to the Father of Mercies, that tho&s;e Apparitions may not prove, the &s;ad <HI>Omens</HI> of &s;ome &s;uture, and more horrible Mole&s;tations to them.</P></Q>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>May</HI> 19. 1693.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your very Humble Servant, J. E.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>NOW, Reader, albeit that pa&s;&s;age of the Sa|cred Story, 2 Chron. 20.22. <HI>The Lord &s;et Ambu&s;hments again&s;t the Children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, and they were Smitten:</HI> is by the be&s;t Expo&s;itors thus under&s;tood; That there was the Mini&s;try of the <HI>Holy Angels</HI> wondrou&s;ly Em|ploy'd in this matter; the <HI>Angels</HI> in the Shape of <HI>Moabites</HI> and <HI>Ammonites,</HI> fell upon them of Mount <HI>Seir,</HI> and upon this apprehended provo|cation they then all fell upon one another, until the whole Army was de&s;troyed: Neverthele&s;s, I entirely refer it unto thy Judgment (without the lea&s;t offer of my own,) whether, <HI>Satan</HI> did not now <HI>Set Ambu&s;hments</HI> again&s;t the Good Peo|ple of <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> with <HI>Daemons,</HI> in the Shape of Armed <HI>Indians</HI> and <HI>French-men</HI> appearing to con|&s;iderable Numbers of the Inhabitants, and mutu|ally Firing upon them, for the be&s;t part of a Month together. I know, the mo&s;t Con&s;iderate Gentlemen in the Neighbourhood, unto this Day, Believe this whole matter to have been a Prodigious piece of the Strange De&s;cent from the
<PB N="113" REF="57"> <HI>Invi&s;ible World,</HI> then made upon other parts of the Country. And the publication of this Pro|digy among other <HI>Wonders of the Invi&s;ible World</HI> among us, has been Delay'd until <HI>Now,</HI> that &s;o the Opinion of our mo&s;t con&s;iderate Gentlemen about it, might have Time for a thorough <HI>Con|coction:</HI> and that the Gentlemen of the Order of St. <HI>Thomas,</HI> may have no <HI>Objection</HI> to make again&s;t it. But, be it what it will, they are not a few profane <HI>Squibs</HI> from the Sons of the Ex|travagant <HI>Bekker,</HI> that will be a fit Explication, for Things thus <HI>Atte&s;ted,</HI> and &s;o very <HI>Marvellous.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. XIX.</HI> PACEM, Te Po&s;cimus Omnes.</HEAD>
<P>IN the year, 1693. His Excellency &s;ent away Captain <HI>Convers,</HI> to draw off the fitte&s;t of the Officers and Souldiers, quartered in the Ea&s;t, for a March, and cau&s;ing about Three Hundred and Fifty more to be Levied, gave him, what he had merited above a year ago; even a Com|mi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Major</HI> and Commander in Chief over the&s;e Forces. While Major <HI>Convers</HI> was at <HI>Wells,</HI> hearing of &s;ome Indians, that were &s;een in the Woods, he Surpri&s;ed them all, and finding that they had cut off a poor Family at <HI>Oy&s;ter River,</HI> he gave the c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ief of them, &s;omething of what <HI>they</HI> al&s;o had merited. Going to <HI>Pemmaquid;</HI>
<PB N="114" REF="58"> after &s;ome &s;ervice there, they Sailed up <HI>Sheep|&s;cote</HI> River, &amp; then marched through the Woods to <HI>Taconet,</HI> which being De&s;erted by the <HI>Indians,</HI> they ranged through many other Woods; but could meet with none of their Enemies. Re|pairing then to <HI>Saco,</HI> they began another <HI>Fort,</HI> which was carried on by that worthy Gentleman Major <HI>Hook,</HI> and the truly commendable Captain <HI>Hill,</HI> and proved a matter of Good Con&s;equence unto the Province. While the&s;e Things were doing, &s;ome time in <HI>July,</HI> the Straggling Indians did &s;ome Spoil, upon <HI>Quaboag,</HI> a remote Vil|lage, in the Road unto <HI>Connecticut;</HI> but Advice being di&s;patch'd unto the Towns upon <HI>Connecti|cut</HI>-River, a party immediately Salley'd out after the Spoilers, and leaving their Hor&s;es at the En|trance of a <HI>Swamp,</HI> whither by their Track they had followed them, they come upon the Secure Adver&s;ary, and kill'd the mo&s;t of them, and Recovered the Captives, with their Plunder; and Returning home, had &s;ome Re|ward for &s;o brisk an Action.</P>
<P>But now, the <HI>Indians</HI> in the Ea&s;t, probably Di&s;heartened by the <HI>Forts</HI> Erecting that were like to prove a &s;ore Annoyance to them, in their Enterprizes; and by the Fear of wanting <HI>Am|munition,</HI> with other Provi&s;ions, which the <HI>French</HI> were not &s;o Able ju&s;t now to di&s;pence unto them; and by a pre&s;umption that an Arr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y of <HI>Maqua's,</HI> [part of tho&s;e Terrible <HI>Cannibals</HI> to the We&s;t-ward,
<PB N="115" REF="58"> whereof 'tis affirm'd by tho&s;e who have publi&s;hed the Stories of their Travels among them, That they have de&s;troy'd no le&s;s than Two Million Salva|ges of other Nations about them, through their being Supplyed with <HI>Fire-Arms,</HI> before Hundreds of other Nations, lying between them, &amp; the Ri|ver <HI>Me&s;cha&s;ippi,</HI>] was come into their Country, becau&s;e they found &s;ome of their <HI>Squa's</HI> killed upon a <HI>Whortle berry Plain;</HI> and all the Charms of the <HI>French Fryar</HI> then Re&s;ident among them, could not hinder them, from Suing to the Eng|li&s;h for <HI>Peace.</HI> And the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> being &s;o involved in <HI>Debts,</HI> that they Scarce knew how to pro&s;ecute the <HI>War</HI> any further; took &s;ome Notice of their Suit. Accordingly, a <HI>Peace</HI> was made, upon the En&s;uing Articles.</P>
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<HEAD>Province of the Ma&s;&s;achu|&s;etts Bay in New-England. The Submi&s;&s;ion and Agreement of the Ea&s;tern In|dians, at Fort <HI>William Henry</HI> in <HI>Pemmaquid</HI> the <HI>11th.</HI> day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> in the Fifth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord and Lady, <HI>William</HI> and <HI>Mary,</HI> by the Grace of God, of <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> King and Queen, Defenders of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c. 1693.</HI></HEAD>
<Q REND="margQuotes"><P>WHereas a Bloody War ha's for &s;ome years now pa&s;t been made and carryed on by the <HI>Indians</HI> within the Ea&s;tern parts of the &s;aid Province, again&s;t Their Maje&s;ties Subjects
<PB N="116" REF="59"> the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> through the In&s;tigation and Influ|ences of the <HI>French;</HI> and being &s;en&s;ible of the Mi&s;eries which we and our People are reduced unto, by adhearing to their ill Council: We who&s;e names are hereunto Sub&s;cribed, being Sa|gamores and Chief Captains of all the <HI>Indians</HI> belonging to the &s;everal Rivers of <HI>Penob&s;cote</HI> and <HI>Kennebeck, Amana&s;cogin,</HI> and <HI>Saco,</HI> parts of the &s;aid Province of the <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;etts Bay,</HI> within Their &s;aid Maje&s;ties Soveraignty: Having made Application unto his Excellency Sir <HI>William Phipps,</HI> Captain General &amp; Governour in Chief in and over the &s;aid Province, that the War may be put to an end; Do lay down our Arms, and ca&s;t our &s;elves upon Their &s;aid Maje&s;ties Grace and Favour. And each of us re&s;pectively for our &s;elves, and in the Name &amp; with the free con&s;ent of all the Indians belong|ing unto the &s;everal Rivers afore&s;aid, and of all other Indians within the &s;aid Province of and from <HI>Merrimack</HI> River, unto the mo&s;t Ea&s;terly Bounds of the &s;aid Province; hereby acknow|ledging our hearty Subjection and Obedience unto the Crown of <HI>England:</HI> and do &s;olemnly Covenant, P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">omi&s;e and Agree to and wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h the &s;aid Sir <HI>William Phipps,</HI> and his Succe&s;&s;ors in the place of Captain General and Governour in Chief, of the afore&s;aid Province or Territory, on Their &s;aid Maje&s;ties behalf, in manner fol|lowing, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<PB N="117" REF="59">
<P>That at all time and times for ever, from and after the date of the&s;e Pre&s;ents, we will cea&s;e and forbear all acts of Ho&s;tility towards the Subjects of the Crown of <HI>England,</HI> and not offer the lea&s;t hurt or violence to them or any of them in their Per&s;ons or E&s;tate: But will hence|forward hold and maintain a firm and con&s;tant Amity and Friend&s;hip with all the <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Item.</HI> We abandon and for&s;ake the <HI>French</HI> Intere&s;t, &amp; will not in any wi&s;e adhere to, joyn with, aid or a&s;&s;i&s;t them in their Wars, or De|&s;igns again&s;t the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> nor countenance, &s;uc|cour, or conceal any of the Enemy <HI>Indians</HI> of <HI>Canada</HI> or other places, that &s;hall happen to come to any of our Plantations within the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Territory, but &s;ecure them if in our power, and deliver them up unto the <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>That all <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Captives in the hands or power of any of the <HI>Indians</HI> within the Limits afore&s;aid, &s;hall with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed be &s;et at liberty, and returned home without any Ran|&s;ome or Payment to be made or given for them or any of them.</P>
<P>That Their Maje&s;ties Subjects the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> &s;hall and may peaceably and quietly enter upon, im|prove, and for ever enjoy, all and &s;ingular their Rights of Lands, and former Settlements and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions within the Ea&s;tern parts of the &s;aid Province of the <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;etts-Bay,</HI> without any pretentions or claims by us or any other <HI>Indian<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI>
<PB N="118" REF="60"> and be in no wi&s;e mole&s;ted, interrupted, or di&s;turbed therein.</P>
<P>That all Trade and Commerce which here|after may be allowed between the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Indians,</HI> &s;hall be under &s;uch Management and Regulation as may be &s;tated by an Act of the General A&s;&s;embly, or as the Governour of the &s;aid Province for the time being, with the Advice and Con&s;ent of the Council &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e to Direct and Limit.</P>
<P>If any controver&s;y, or difference, at any time hereafter happen to ari&s;e between any of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Indians</HI> for any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eal or &s;uppo&s;ed wrong or injury done on one &s;ide or the other, no private Revenge &s;hall be taken by the <HI>Indians</HI> for the &s;ame, but proper Application be made to Their Maje&s;ties Government, upon the place, for Remedy thereof in a due cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice, we hereby &s;ubmitting our &s;elves to be ruled and governed by Their Maje&s;ties Laws, and de&s;ire to have the benefit of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>For the more full manife&s;tation of our &s;ince|rity and integrity in all that which we have herein before Covenanted and Promi&s;ed, we do deliver unto Sir <HI>William Phipps,</HI> Their Maje&s;ties Governour as afore&s;aid, <HI>Aha&s;&s;ombamett</HI> Brother to <HI>Edgeremett; Wenong ahewitt</HI> Cou&s;in to <HI>Mado|ckawando,</HI> and <HI>Edgeremett,</HI> and <HI>Bagatawawongon;</HI> al&s;o <HI>Sheep&s;coat John,</HI> to abide and remain in the Cu&s;tody of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> where the Governour
<PB N="119" REF="60"> &s;hall direct as Ho&s;tages or Pledges, for our Fi|delity, and true performance of all and every the foregoing Articles, re&s;erving Liberty to ex|change them in &s;ome rea&s;onable time for a like number, to the acceptance of the Gover|nour and Council of the &s;aid Province, &s;o they be per&s;ons of as good account, and e&s;teem a|mong&s;t the <HI>Indians,</HI> as tho&s;e which are to be ex|changed. In Te&s;timony whereof, we have hereunto &s;et our &s;everal Marks and Seals, the Day and Year fir&s;t above written.</P>
<P>The above written In&s;trument was delibe|rately read over, and the &s;everal Articles and Clau&s;es thereof Interpreted unto the <HI>Indians,</HI> who &s;aid they well under&s;tood, and con&s;ented thereto, and was then Signed, Sealed, &amp; De|livered in the Pre&s;ence of us,</P></Q>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>John Wing.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nicholas Manning.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Benjamin Jack&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Egereme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Madockawando.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>We&s;&s;ambomett</HI> of <HI>Navidgwock.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wenoh&s;on</HI> of <HI>Teconnet</HI> in behalf of <HI>Moxis.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ketterramogis</HI> of <HI>Narridgwock.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ahanquit</HI> of <HI>Penob&s;cot.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Boma&s;een.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nitamemet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Webenes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Awan&s;omeck.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="120" REF="61">
<ITEM><HI>Robin Doney.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Madaumbis.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Paquaharet,</HI> alias <HI>Nathaniel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Inrerpre|ters.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>John Hornybrook,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Bagatawawongo</HI> alias <HI>Sheep&s;coat John.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Phill. Oun&s;akis</HI> Squaw.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. XX.</HI> Bloody Fi&s;hing at <HI>Oy&s;ter</HI>-River. And Sad work at <HI>Groton.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A <HI>Years Breathing Time,</HI> was a great Favour of Heaven to a Country, quite out of <HI>Breath,</HI> with Numberle&s;s Calamities: But the Fa|vour was not &s;o Thankfully Enjoyed, as it &s;hould have been. And now, <HI>The Clouds Return after the Rain.</HI> The <HI>Spectre</HI> that with Burning Tongs drove <HI>Xerxes</HI> to his War upon the <HI>Graecians,</HI> had not lo&s;t his Influence upon our <HI>Indians.</HI> The Perfidy of the <HI>Indians</HI> appeared fir&s;t, in their not Re&s;toring the <HI>Engli&s;h Captives,</HI> according to their <HI>Covenant;</HI> but the perfidious Wretches Excu&s;ed this, with many Prote&s;tations. That which add|ed unto our <HI>Jealou&s;ies</HI> about them, was, their In|&s;olent carriage towards a <HI>Sloop,</HI> commanded by Captain <HI>Wing;</HI> and the Information of a Fellow called <HI>Hector,</HI> That the <HI>Indians</HI> intended mo&s;t certainly to break the <HI>Peace,</HI> and had promi&s;ed
<PB N="121" REF="61"> the <HI>French Prie&s;ts,</HI> taking the <HI>Sacrament</HI> there|upon, to de&s;troy the fir&s;t <HI>Engli&s;h Town</HI> they could Surprize. Rumours of <HI>Indians</HI> Lurking about &s;ome of the Frontier-Plantations, now be|gan to put the poor people into <HI>Con&s;ternation;</HI> but upon an Imagination, that they were only cer|tain <HI>Bever Hunters</HI> the Con&s;ternation of the people went off into <HI>Security.</HI> 'Tis affirmed by Engli&s;h Captives, which were then at <HI>Canada,</HI> that the De&s;olation of <HI>Oy&s;ter-River</HI> was com|monly talk'd in the Streets of <HI>Quebeck,</HI> Two months before it was Effected; for the Spies had found no Town &s;o Secure as <HI>That.</HI> And now, what was <HI>Talk'd</HI> at <HI>Quebeck</HI> in the month of <HI>May,</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>Done</HI> at <HI>Oy&s;ter River</HI> in the month of <HI>July;</HI> for on Wedne&s;day, <HI>July</HI> 18 1694. the Treachearous Enemy, with a great Army fell upon that place, about break of Day, and Killed and Captiv'd, Ninety Four, (or, an Hundred) per&s;ons; about a Score of whom, were men belonging to the Trained Band, of the Town. Several per&s;ons Remarkably E&s;caped this Bloody Deluge, but none, with more Bravery, than one <HI>Thomas Bickford,</HI> who had an Hou&s;e, a Little Palli&s;ado'd, by the River Side; but no man in it be&s;ides him&s;elf. He dexterou&s;ly put his Wife, and Mother, and Children aboard a Canoo, and Sending them down the River, he <HI>Alone,</HI> be|took him&s;elf to the Defence of his Hou&s;e, again&s;t many Indians, that made an A&s;&s;ault upon him.
<PB N="122" REF="62"> They fir&s;t would have per&s;waded him, with many fair <HI>Promi&s;es,</HI> and then, terrified him with as many Fierce <HI>Threatnings,</HI> to yield him&s;elf; but he flouted and fired at them, daring 'em, to come if they dur&s;t. His main <HI>Stratagem</HI> was, to Change his <HI>Livery</HI> as frequently as he could; appearing Sometimes in one <HI>Coat,</HI> Sometimes in another, Sometimes in an <HI>Hat,</HI> and Sometimes in a <HI>Cap;</HI> which cau&s;ed his Be&s;eigers, to mi&s;take this <HI>One</HI> for <HI>Many</HI> Defendents. In fine, The pittiful Wretches, de&s;pairing to <HI>Beat</HI> him out of his Hou&s;e, e'en left him in it; whereas many that opened unto them, upon their Solemn En|gagements of giving them Life and Good Quar|ter, were barborou&s;ly butchered by them; and the Wife of one <HI>Adams,</HI> then with Child, was with horrible Barbarity Ripped up. And thus there was an End of the <HI>Peace,</HI> made at <HI>Pemma|quid!</HI> Upon this, the Friends of Mrs <HI>Ur&s;ula Cutt,</HI> (Widow of Mr <HI>John Cutt,</HI> formerly Pre&s;ident of <HI>New-Hamp&s;hire,</HI>) de&s;ired her, to leave her Farm, which was about a Mile above the Bank Expo&s;ed unto the Enemy, on the South &s;ide of <HI>Pi&s;cataqua</HI> River. She Thank'd them for their <HI>Care,</HI> but added, that &s;he believed, the Enemy had now done their Do for this Time; and however, by the <HI>End of the Week,</HI> her <HI>Bu&s;ine&s;s at the Farm</HI> would be all <HI>di&s;patched,</HI> and on <HI>Saturday,</HI> &s;he would Repair to her Friends at the Bank. But, alas, before the <HI>End of the week,</HI> &s;he &s;aw the
<PB N="123" REF="62"> <HI>End of her Life:</HI> On <HI>Saturday,</HI> about one or two a Clock, in the Afternoon, the <HI>Bu&s;ine&s;s at the Farm</HI> was <HI>Di&s;patched,</HI> &s;ure enough! The Indians Then Kill'd this Gentlewoman, and Three other People, a little before they had Fini&s;hed a point of Husbandry, then in their Hand. Nor did the Storm go over &s;o: Some Drops of it fell upon the Town of <HI>Groton,</HI> a Town that lay, one would think, far enough off, the place, where was the la&s;t <HI>Scene</HI> of the <HI>Tragedy.</HI> On <HI>July</HI> 27. About break of Day, <HI>Groton</HI> felt, &s;ome Surprizing Blows, from the <HI>Indian Hatchets.</HI> They began their At|ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ques, at the Hou&s;e of one Lieutenant <HI>Lakin,</HI> in the out skirts of the Town: but met with a Repul&s;e there, and lo&s;t one of their Crue. Ne|verthele&s;s, in other parts of that Plantation, (when the Good People had been &s;o tired out, as to lay down their <HI>Military Watch,</HI>) there were more than Twenty per&s;ons killed, and more than a Dozen carried away. Mr. <HI>Ger&s;hom Hobart,</HI> the Mini&s;ter of the place, with part of his Family, was Remarkably pre&s;erved, from falling into their Hands, when they made them&s;elves the Ma&s;ters of his Hou&s;e; though they Took Two of his Children, whereof the one was killed, and the other &s;ome Time after happily Re&s;cued out of his Captivity.</P>
<P>I remember, The Jews, in their Book <HI>Taanith,</HI> tell us, <HI>The Elders Proclaimed a Fa&s;t in their Cities, on this Occa&s;ion, becau&s;e the Wolves had Devoured
<PB N="124" REF="63"> two Little Children beyond Jordan.</HI> Truly, The Elders of <HI>New-England,</HI> were not a little concern|ed at it, when they &s;aw the <HI>Wolves</HI> thus devour|ing their Children, even on this &s;ide of <HI>Merrimack!</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>ARTICLE. XXI. <HI>More</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Blood,</HI> Swallowed, <HI>but</HI> Revenged.</HEAD>
<P><HI>REader,</HI> We mu&s;t after This, ever Now and Then, Expect, the happening of &s;ome un|happy Accident. The <HI>Blood-thir&s;ty</HI> Salvages, not content with quaffing the <HI>Blood</HI> of Two or Three per&s;ons, found at work, in a Field at <HI>Spruce creek,</HI> on <HI>Aug.</HI> 20. &amp; of another per&s;on at <HI>York,</HI> the &s;ame Day, (Captivating al&s;o a Lad, which they found with him;) They did on <HI>Aug.</HI> 24. Kill &amp; Take, Eight per&s;ons at <HI>Kittery.</HI> Here, a little Girl, a|bout Seven years old, the Daughter of one Mr. <HI>Downing,</HI> fell into their Barbarous Hands; They knock'd her o' th' Head, and barbarou&s;ly Scalped her, leaving her on the <HI>Cold Ground,</HI> (and it was then very <HI>Cold,</HI> beyond what u&s;e to be,) where &s;he lay all the Night En&s;uing: Yet &s;he was found <HI>Alive</HI> the Next Morning, and Recovering, &s;he is to this Day <HI>Alive,</HI> and well: only the place broke in her skull, will not endure to be clo&s;ed up. He had another Daughter, which at the &s;ame Time, almo&s;t miraculou&s;ly E&s;caped their Hands. But &s;o could not at another Time, <HI>Jo&s;eph Pike,</HI> of
<PB N="125" REF="63"> <HI>Newbury,</HI> the <HI>Deputy Sheriff</HI> of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> who, on <HI>Sept.</HI> 4. Travelling between <HI>Amesbury</HI> and <HI>Haverhil,</HI> in the Execution of his Office, with one <HI>Long,</HI> they both had an <HI>Arre&s;t of Death</HI> Served upon them, from an <HI>Indian</HI> Amba&s;cado. <HI>Bomma&s;een,</HI> a Com|mander of prime Quality among the Indians, who had &s;et his Hand unto the late <HI>Articles of Submi&s;&s;ion,</HI> came <HI>Nov.</HI> 19. with Two other In|dians, to <HI>Pemmaquid, as Loving as Bears, and as Harmle&s;s as Tygres,</HI> pretending to be ju&s;t <HI>Arrived</HI> from <HI>Canada,</HI> and much <HI>Afflicted</HI> for the late mi&s;|chiefs, (whereof there was witne&s;s, that <HI>he</HI> was a principal Actor,) but Captain <HI>March,</HI> with a Sufficient Activity Siezed them; as <HI>Robin Doney,</HI> another famous Villain among them, with Three more, had been Siez'd at <HI>Saco</HI> Fort, a little before. <HI>Bomma&s;een,</HI> was Convey'd unto <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> that he might in a clo&s;e Impri&s;onment there, have Time to con&s;ider of his Treacheries, and his Cruelties, for which, the Ju&s;tice of Heaven, had thus De|livered him up. When he was going to <HI>Pemma|quid,</HI> he left his Company, with a Strange Re|luctancy and Formality, as if he had pre&s;aged the Event; and when at <HI>Pemmaquid,</HI> he found the Event of his coming, he di&s;covered a more than ordinary Di&s;turbance of mind: his <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions</HI> foam'd and boyl'd, like the very <HI>Waters</HI> at the Fall of <HI>Niagara.</HI></P>
<P>But being thus fallen upon the mention of that <HI>Vengeance,</HI> wherewith Heaven pur&s;ued the chief
<PB N="126" REF="64"> of the <HI>Salvage Murderers,</HI> it may give &s;ome Di|ver&s;ion unto the Reader, in the mid&s;t of a long and a &s;ad Story, to in&s;ert a Relation of an Acci|dent that fell out a little after this Time.</P>
<P>The <HI>Indians,</HI> (as the Captives inform us) be|ing <HI>hungry and hardly be&s;tead,</HI> pa&s;&s;ed through de|&s;erted <HI>Ca&s;co;</HI> where they &s;pied &s;everal <HI>Hor&s;es</HI> in Captain <HI>Brackets</HI> Orchard. Their fami&s;hed <HI>Squa's</HI> beg'd them to Shoot the <HI>Hor&s;es,</HI> that they might be revived with a little <HI>Roast meat;</HI> but the young men, were for having a little Sport before their Supper. Driving the <HI>Hor&s;es</HI> into a Pound, they took one of them, and furni&s;hed him with an <HI>Halter,</HI> &s;uddenly made of the <HI>Main</HI> and the <HI>Tail</HI> of the Animal, which they cut off. A Son of the famous <HI>Hegon,</HI> was ambitious to mount this <HI>Pega&s;aean Steed;</HI> but being a pittiful Hor&s;eman, he ordered them, for fear of his Fall|ing, to Ty his Legs fa&s;t under the <HI>Hor&s;es</HI> Belly. No &s;ooner was this <HI>Beggar Set on Hor&s;e back,</HI> and the Spark in his own opinion throughly Equipt, but the Mettle&s;ome <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> furiou&s;ly and pre&s;ently ran with him out of Sight. Neither <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> nor <HI>Man,</HI> were ever &s;een any more; the a&s;toni&s;h'd Tawnies howl'd after one of their Nobility, di&s;ap|pearing by &s;uch an unexpected Accident. A few Dayes after they found one of his <HI>Legs,</HI> (and that was <HI>All,</HI>) which they buried in Captain <HI>Brackets</HI> Cellar, with abundance of Lamentation.</P>
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<HEAD>ARTICLE. XXII. <HI>A Conference with an</HI> Indian-Sagamore.</HEAD>
<P>BUt now <HI>Bomma&s;een</HI> is fallen into our Hands, let us have a little Di&s;cour&s;e with him.</P>
<P>Behold, Reader, the Troubles, and the Trou|blers of <HI>New-England!</HI> That thou may&s;t a little more Exactly Behold the <HI>Spirit</HI> of the matter, I'l Recite certain pa&s;&s;ages, occurring in a Di&s;cour&s;e that pa&s;s'd between this <HI>Bomma&s;een</HI> (who was one of the <HI>Indian Princes,</HI> or, <HI>Chieftanes,</HI>) and a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel, in the year. 1696.</P>
<P><HI>Bomma&s;een,</HI> was, with &s;ome other Indians, now a Pri&s;oner, in <HI>Bo&s;ton.</HI> He de&s;ired a Confe|rence with a Mini&s;ter, of <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> which was granted him. <HI>Bomma&s;een,</HI> with the other <HI>Indians</HI> a&s;&s;enting and a&s;&s;erting to it, then told the Mini&s;ter, That he pray'd his In|&s;truction in the <HI>Chri&s;tian Religion;</HI> ina&s;much as he was afraid, that the <HI>French,</HI> in the <HI>Chri&s;tian Re|ligion,</HI> which they taught the <HI>Indians,</HI> had Abu&s;ed them. The Mini&s;ter Enquired of him, What of the Things taught 'em by the <HI>French,</HI> appear'd mo&s;t Su&s;picious to 'em? He &s;aid, The <HI>French</HI> taught 'em, That the Lord JESUS CHRIST, was of the <HI>French Nation;</HI> That His Mother, the Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI> was a <HI>French Lady;</HI> That they were the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> who had Murdered him; and,
<PB N="128" REF="65"> That whereas He Ro&s;e from the Dead, &amp; went up to the Heavens, all that would Recommend them&s;elves unto His Favour, mu&s;t Revenge His Quarrel upon the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> as far as they can. He ask'd the Mini&s;ter, whether the&s;e Things were &s;o; and pray'd the Mini&s;ter to In&s;truct him in the True <HI>Christian Religion.</HI> The Mini|&s;ter con&s;idering, that the Humour and Manner of the <HI>Indians,</HI> was to have their Di&s;cour&s;es ma|naged, with much of <HI>Similitude</HI> in them, Look'd about for &s;ome Agreeable object, from whence he might with apt <HI>Re&s;emblances</HI> Convey the <HI>Idae's</HI> of Truth unto the minds of Salvages: and he thought, none would be more Agreeable to <HI>them,</HI> than a <HI>Tankard of Drink,</HI> which happened then to be &s;tanding on the Table. So he pro|ceeded in this <HI>Method</HI> with 'em.</P>
<P>He told <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hem, [&s;till with proper Actions painting, and pointing out the <HI>Signs</HI> unto them,] That our Lord JESUS CHRIST, had given us, a <HI>Good Religion,</HI> which might be Re&s;embled unto the <HI>Good Drink in the Cup,</HI> upon the Table.</P>
<P>That if we Take this <HI>Good Religion,</HI> (even that <HI>Good Drink,</HI>) into our Hearts, it will do us <HI>Good,</HI> and pre&s;erve us from <HI>Death.</HI></P>
<P>That Gods <HI>Book,</HI> the <HI>Bible,</HI> is the <HI>Cup,</HI> wherein that <HI>Good Drink,</HI> of <HI>Religion</HI> is offered unto us.</P>
<P>That the <HI>French,</HI> having the <HI>Cup</HI> of <HI>Good Drink,</HI> in their Hands, had put <HI>Poi&s;on</HI> into it; and then made the <HI>Indians</HI> to Drink that <HI>Poi&s;oned Liquor,</HI>
<PB N="129" REF="65"> whereupon, they Run mad, and fell to killing of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> though they could not but know, it mu&s;t unavoidably i&s;&s;ue in their own De&s;truction at the La&s;t.</P>
<P>That, it was plain, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> had put no <HI>Poi|&s;on,</HI> into the <HI>Good Drink;</HI> for they &s;et the <HI>Cup</HI> wide open, and invited all men, to <HI>Come</HI> &amp; <HI>See</HI> before they <HI>Ta&s;t;</HI> even, the very <HI>Indians</HI> them|&s;elves; for we Tran&s;lated the <HI>Bible</HI> into <HI>Indian.</HI> That they might gather from hence, that the <HI>French</HI> had put <HI>Poi&s;on</HI> into the <HI>Good Drink;</HI> ina&s;|much, as the <HI>French</HI> kept the <HI>Cup</HI> fa&s;t Shut, (the Bible in an <HI>Unknown Tongue,</HI>) and kept their <HI>Hands</HI> upon the <HI>Eyes</HI> of the <HI>Indians,</HI> when they put it unto their mouths.</P>
<P>The <HI>Indians</HI> Expre&s;&s;ing them&s;elves to be well-Satisfied, with what the Mini&s;ter had hitherto &s;aid, pray'd him, to go on, with &s;howing 'em, what was the <HI>Good Drink,</HI> and what was the <HI>Poi|&s;on,</HI> which the <HI>French</HI> had put into it.</P>
<P>He then &s;et before them di&s;tinctly the chief <HI>Articles</HI> of the <HI>Chri&s;tian Religion,</HI> with all the Sim|plicity and Sincerity of a <HI>Protestant:</HI> Adding upon each, <HI>This is the Good Drink, in the Lords Cup of Life:</HI> And they &s;till profe&s;&s;ed, <HI>That they liked it all.</HI></P>
<P>Whereupon, he demon&s;trated unto them, how the <HI>Papists</HI> had in their Idolatrous <HI>Popery,</HI> &s;ome way or other Depraved, and Altered, every one of the&s;e <HI>Articles;</HI> with Scandalous <HI>Ingredients</HI> of
<PB N="130" REF="66"> their own Invention; Adding upon each, <HI>This is the Poi&s;on which the French have put into the Cup.</HI></P>
<P>At la&s;t, he mentioned this Article.</P>
<P><HI>To obtain the Pardon of your Sins, you must con|fe&s;s your Sins to God; &amp; pray to God, That He would Pardon your Sins, for the &s;ake of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who dyed for the Sins of His People: God Loves Je&s;us Chri&s;t infinitely, and if you place your Eye on Je&s;us Christ only, when you beg the Pardon of your Sins, God will Pardon them. You need confe&s;s your Sins to none but God, Except in ca&s;es, where men have known your Sins, or have been Hurt by your Sins; &amp; then tho&s;e men &s;hould know that you confe&s;s your Sins; but after all, none but God can Pardon them.</HI></P>
<P>He then added; <HI>The French have put Poi&s;on in|to this Good Drink; They tell you, that you mu&s;t confe&s;s your Sins to a Prie&s;t, and carry skins to a Prie&s;t, and Submit unto a Penance enjoyned by a Prie&s;t; and this Prie&s;t is to give you a Pardon. There is no need of all This: 'Tis nothing but French Poi&s;on, all of it.</HI></P>
<P>The Wretches appearing a&s;toni&s;h'd, to meet with one who would &s;o fairly put them into a glorious way to obtain the <HI>Pardon of their Sins,</HI> and yet take no <HI>Bever Skins</HI> for it: in a Rap|ture of A&s;toni&s;hment, they fell down on their <HI>knees,</HI> and got his <HI>Hand</HI> into theirs, and fell to ki&s;&s;ing of it with an Extream &s;how of Affection.</P>
<P>He &s;haking them off, with di&s;like of their po&s;ture, <HI>Bomma&s;een</HI> with the re&s;t of them &s;tood
<PB N="131" REF="66"> up; and fir&s;t lifting up his Eyes, and Hands, to Heaven; declaring, That <HI>God</HI> &s;hould be <HI>Judge</HI> of his <HI>Heart</HI> in what he &s;aid; he then &s;aid, Sir, <HI>I thank you for the&s;e Things; I Re&s;olve to Spit up all the French Poi&s;on; You &s;hall be my Father; I will be your Son; I be&s;eech you, to continue, to In&s;truct me, in that Religion, which may bring me to the Salvation of my Soul!</HI> &mdash; Now, God knows, what <HI>Heart</HI> this <HI>Indian</HI> had, when he &s;o Expre&s;&s;ed him&s;elf: To <HI>Him</HI> let us leave it.</P>
<P>But &s;o much for this Digre&s;&s;ion.</P>
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<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>ARTICLE. XXIII. <HI>More</HI> Mi&s;chiefs, <HI>in Spite of</HI> Treaties.</HEAD>
<P>EXcept it were the Falling of Two Souldiers belonging to <HI>Saco</HI> Garri&s;on, into the Hands of the Enemy, who Took the one, and Kill'd the other, &s;ome Time in <HI>March.</HI> 1695 Many Months pa&s;s'd away, without any Action between Them and Us; And it is Reported by Return|ed Captives, That the Hand of <HI>God,</HI> reach'd them, when the Hand of <HI>Man</HI> could not find them, and a <HI>Mortal Sickne&s;s,</HI> did at a Strange Rate carry off multitudes of them. At length, upon the Mediation of old <HI>Sheep&s;coat John,</HI> once a <HI>Praying Indian,</HI> of the Reverend ELIOT's <HI>Ca|techmuens,</HI> but after-wards, a <HI>Pagan,</HI> and now a <HI>Popi&s;h</HI>-Apo&s;tate, a Great Fleet of <HI>Canoo's</HI> came,
<PB N="132" REF="67"> in to an I&s;land, about a League from the Fort at <HI>Pemmaquid, May</HI> 20. 1695. and, after they had laid &s;till there, all the <HI>Lords-Day,</HI> on <HI>Munday</HI> morning they &s;ent unto the Engli&s;h, for another Treaty. They Declared, Their De&s;ign was to <HI>Exchange Captives,</HI> and Renew the <HI>Peace,</HI> and con|demned them&s;elves for their Violating the <HI>Peace</HI> made near Two years ago. <HI>Eight Captives,</HI> they Immediately Delivered up; and upon a Grant of a <HI>Truce</HI> for Thirty Days, Colonel <HI>John Phillips,</HI> Lieut. Colonel <HI>Hawthorn,</HI> and Major <HI>Convers,</HI> were &s;ent Commi&s;&s;ioners unto <HI>Pemmaquid,</HI> for the management of that affayr. Our Commi&s;&s;io|ners, with Good Rea&s;on, demanding a Surren|der of all the <HI>Engli&s;h Captives,</HI> according to for|mer Agreement, before they would allow any New Propo&s;itions of <HI>Peace</HI> to be offered, the <HI>Indians,</HI> digu&s;ted that their Idol <HI>Bomma&s;een</HI> was left at <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> broke off the Conference, and went off in Di&s;content. Advice was immediate|ly di&s;patch'd into all parts of the <HI>Ea&s;tern Country,</HI> to &s;tand well upon their Guard: notwith&s;tand|ing which, on <HI>July</HI> 6. Major <HI>Hammond</HI> of <HI>Kittery,</HI> fell into the Hands of the Lurking <HI>Indians;</HI> and the next week, Two men at <HI>Exeter</HI> were kill'd by &s;ome of the &s;ame Dangerous <HI>Lurkers.</HI> Ma|jor <HI>Hammond</HI> was now aboard a <HI>Canoo,</HI> intending to put a&s;hore at <HI>Saco;</HI> but &s;ome of the Garri&s;on-Souldiers there, not knowing that they had &s;uch a good Friend aboard, inadvertently Fired upon
<PB N="133" REF="67"> the <HI>Canoo;</HI> and &s;o, the <HI>Indians</HI> carried him clear away. They tran&s;ported him at length to <HI>Ca|nada;</HI> where he met with Extraordinary Civi|lities; Count <HI>Frontenack,</HI> the Governour him&s;elf, nobly purcha&s;ed him, of his Tawny-ma&s;ter; and &s;ent him home to <HI>New-England,</HI> by a Ve&s;&s;el, which al&s;o fetch'd from thence a Con&s;iderable Number, (perhaps near <HI>Thirty</HI>) of Engli&s;h Pri&s;oners. In <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> the Hou&s;e of one <HI>Rogers</HI> at <HI>Billerica,</HI> was plundered, and about Fifteen People Kill'd and Taken, by <HI>Indians,</HI> which, by ap|pearing and Approaching, 'tis &s;aid, on <HI>Hor&s;e-back,</HI> were not Su&s;pected for <HI>Indians,</HI> [for, <HI>Who &s;et them on Hor&s;e-back?</HI>] till they Surprized the Hou&s;e they came to. And about the &s;ame Time, Sergeant <HI>Haley,</HI> Venturing out of his Fort, at <HI>Saco,</HI> Stept into the <HI>Snares</HI> of <HI>Death.</HI> On <HI>Sept</HI> 9. Sergeant <HI>March,</HI> with Three more, were Killed by the <HI>Indians,</HI> and Six more, at the &s;ame Time wounded at <HI>Pemmaquid,</HI> Rowing a <HI>Gondula,</HI> round an high Rocky point, above the <HI>Barbican.</HI> On <HI>Oct.</HI> 7. the <HI>Indians</HI> entred the Hou&s;e of one <HI>John Brown</HI> at <HI>Newbury;</HI> carrying away Nine Per&s;ons with them; whereupon Captain <HI>Greenlief,</HI> nimbly pur&s;uing the Murderers, did unhappily &s;o Stumble on them in the Night, that they wounded the good man, and made their E&s;cape over the River. The Captain Retook all the Captives; but the <HI>Indians,</HI> in their going off, Strook them all &s;o Violently on the <HI>Head,</HI> with
<PB N="134" REF="68"> the <HI>Clubs,</HI> which I remember a French Hi&s;torian &s;omewhere calls by the frightful Name of <HI>Head-breakers,</HI> that they afterwards all of them <HI>Dyed,</HI> Except a <HI>Lad</HI> that was only hurt in the Shoulder. Some of them Lingred out for <HI>half</HI> a year, and &s;ome of them for more than a <HI>whole</HI> year; but if the Doctors clo&s;ed up the <HI>wounds</HI> of their <HI>Heads,</HI> they would grow <HI>Light headed,</HI> and Faint, and Sick, and could not bear it; So at la&s;t, they Dy|ed, with their very <HI>Brains</HI> working out at their <HI>Wounds.</HI></P>
<P>But having thus run o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er a <HI>Journal of Deaths,</HI> for the year, 1695. Let us before the year be quite gone, &s;ee &s;ome Vengeance taken upon the <HI>Heads in the Hou&s;e of the Wicked.</HI> Know then, Reader, That Captain <HI>March</HI> petitioning to be Di&s;mi&s;s'd from his Command of the Fort at <HI>Pemmaquid,</HI> one <HI>Chub</HI> Succeeded him. And this <HI>Chub,</HI> found an Opportunity, in a pretty <HI>Chubbed manner,</HI> to kill, the famous <HI>Egeremet,</HI> and, <HI>Ahen|quid,</HI> a couple of Principal <HI>Sagamores,</HI> with one or Two other Indians; On a Lords-day, the Six|teenth of <HI>February.</HI> Some that well enough liked the <HI>Thing,</HI> which was now done, did not altoge|ther like the <HI>manner</HI> of doing it, becau&s;e there was a pretence of <HI>Treaty,</HI> between <HI>Chub,</HI> and the <HI>Sagamores,</HI> whereof he took his Advantage to lay violent Hands on them. If there were any unfair Dealing (which I know not) in this Action of <HI>Chub,</HI> there will be another <HI>February,</HI>
<PB N="135" REF="68"> not far off, wherein the <HI>Avengers of Blood,</HI> will take their <HI>Satisfaction.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>ARTICLE. XXIV. Still, <HI>Mi&s;chief upon Mi&s;chief.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Next whole year, namely, 1696. had it not been for the Degree of a <HI>Famine,</HI> which the <HI>Alteration of the cour&s;e of Nature</HI> in the&s;e, as well as other parts of the world, threat|ned us withal, would have been a Year of <HI>Le&s;s Trouble,</HI> than &s;ome of the re&s;t, in our <HI>Trouble&s;ome Decad.</HI> The mo&s;t <HI>unea&s;y Accident</HI> of this year, &s;hall be told, when we arrive unto the Month of <HI>Augu&s;t;</HI> but in the mean Time, it was a mat|ter of &s;ome <HI>Unea&s;ine&s;s,</HI> that on <HI>May.</HI> 7. one <HI>John Church</HI> of <HI>Quochecho</HI> who had been a Captive, E|&s;caped from the Hands of the Indians, almo&s;t Seven years before, was now Slain, and Stript, by their Barbarous Hands: And, on <HI>Jun.</HI> 24. one <HI>Thomas Cole,</HI> of <HI>Wells,</HI> and his wife, were Slain by the Indians, returning home with two of his Neighbours, and their Wives, all three Si&s;ters, from a Vi&s;it, of their Friends at <HI>York:</HI> And, on <HI>Jun.</HI> 26. at &s;everal places within the Confines of <HI>Port&s;mouth,</HI> Several Per&s;ons, Twelve or Fourteen, were Ma&s;&s;acred, (with &s;ome Hou&s;es Burnt,) and Four Taken, which, yet were &s;oon Retaken; among whom, there was an Ancient Women
<PB N="136" REF="69"> Scalpt for Dead, and no doubt the Salvages upon producing her <HI>Scalp,</HI> received the <HI>Price of her Death,</HI> from tho&s;e that hired them, and yet &s;he &s;o Recovered, as to be &s;till <HI>Alive.</HI> Moreover, on <HI>July</HI> 26. the <HI>Lords Day,</HI> the People at <HI>Quoche|cho,</HI> returning from the Publick Wor&s;hip of God, <HI>Three</HI> of them were killed, <HI>Three</HI> of them were wounded, and <HI>Three</HI> of them were carried away Pri&s;oners to <HI>Penob&s;cut;</HI> which la&s;t <HI>Three,</HI> were neverthele&s;s in le&s;s than Three weeks returned. But now we are got into fatal <HI>Augu&s;t;</HI> on the Fifth or Sixth Day of which Month, the French having Taken one of the Engli&s;h <HI>Men of War,</HI> called, <HI>The New-port,</HI> and Landed a few men, who joyn'd with the Indians, to pur&s;ue their Bu&s;ine&s;s, <HI>Chub,</HI> with an unaccountable Ba&s;ene&s;s, did Surrender the Brave Fort at <HI>Pemmaquid</HI> into their Hands. There were Ninety Five men double Armed, in the Fort, which might have Defended it again&s;t Nine Times as many A&s;&s;ai|lants; That a <HI>Fort</HI> now &s;hould be &s;o ba&s;ely given up! Imitating the Style of <HI>Homer</HI> and <HI>Virgil,</HI> I cannot forbear crying out, <HI>O merae Novanglae, neque enim Novangli!</HI> And yet if you read the Story written by the Sieur <HI>Froger,</HI> how poorly St. <HI>James's</HI> Fort, in <HI>Africa,</HI> was given up to the French in the year, 1695. You'l &s;ay, the Things done in <HI>America,</HI> are not &s;o bad, as what have been done in ether parts of the World. The Enemy having Demoli&s;hed &s;o fair a Citadel, now
<PB N="137" REF="69"> grown mighty <HI>Uppi&s;h,</HI> Triumph'd, as well they might, Exceedingly; and Threatned, that they would carry all before them. The Honourable Lieutenant Governour <HI>Stoughton,</HI> who was now Commander in Chief, over the Province, im|mediately did all that could be done, to put a Stop unto the Fury of the Adver&s;ary. By <HI>Sea,</HI> he &s;ent out Three <HI>Men of War,</HI> who, di&s;advantag|ed by the Winds, came not &s;oon Enough to en|gage the <HI>French.</HI> By <HI>Land,</HI> the <HI>Indians</HI> being &s;o Po&s;ted in all quarters, that the People could hardly Stir out, but about half a Score of the poor People in their Fields here and there were pick't off, he &s;ent Colonel <HI>Gidney</HI> with Five Hundred men; who perceiving the Salvages to be drawn off, only Strengthened the Garri&s;ons, and Return|ed. The Lieutenant Governour, that he might not in any other point be wanting, to the Pub|lick Safety, hereupon di&s;patched, Colonel <HI>Naw|thorn,</HI> with a Suitable Number of Souldiers, and Frigats unto St. <HI>Johns,</HI> with orders to fetch a|way &s;ome Great Guns that were lying there, &amp; joyn with Major <HI>Church</HI> who was gone with Forces that way, to attack the Fort at St. <HI>Johns,</HI> which was the Ne&s;t of all the <HI>Wa&s;ps</HI> that Stung us: but the Difficulty of the <HI>Cold Sea&s;on</HI> &s;o di&s;|couraged our men, that after the making of &s;ome few Shot, the Enterprize found it &s;elf un|der too much <HI>Congelation</HI> to proceed any further. So we will afflict our &s;elves no further for this
<PB N="138" REF="70"> year; Except only with mentioning the Slaugh|ter of about Five poor Souldiers, belonging to <HI>Saco</HI>-Fort, <HI>Oct.</HI> 13. who had a Di&s;covery of the Enemy, Sea&s;onable Enough, to have made their E&s;cape; yet, not Agreeing about the way of making it, as it led by &s;ome <HI>Fatality</HI> to their <HI>De|&s;truction,</HI> or, as if they had been like the <HI>Squirrels,</HI> that mu&s;t run down the Tree, Squeaking and Crying, into the mouths of the <HI>Rattle-Snakes,</HI> that fix their <HI>Eyes</HI> upon them; they went back in to the very path, where the Indian Ambu&s;h was lying for them.</P>
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<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>ARTICLE. XXV. <HI>A Notable Exploit; wherein,</HI> Dux Faemina Facti.</HEAD>
<P>ON <HI>March</HI> 15. 1697. the Salvages made a De&s;cent upon the Skirts of <HI>Haverhil,</HI> Mur|dering and Captiving about Thirty Nine Per|&s;ons, and Burning about Half a Dozen Hou&s;es. In this Broil, one <HI>Hannah Du&s;tan,</HI> having lain in about a Week, attended with her Nur&s;e, <HI>Mary Neff,</HI> a Widow, a Body of Terrible <HI>Indians</HI> drew near unto the Hou&s;e, where &s;he lay, with De&s;igns to carry on their Bloody Deva&s;tations. Her Husband, ha&s;tened from his Employments a|broad, unto the Relief of his Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Family; and fir&s;t bidding <HI>Seven</HI> of his <HI>Eight</HI> Children (which were from <HI>Two</HI> to <HI>Seventeen</HI> years of Age)
<PB N="139" REF="70"> to get away as fa&s;t as they could, unto &s;ome Garri&s;on in the Town, he went in, to inform his Wife, of the horrible Di&s;tre&s;s come upon them, E're &s;he could get up, the fierce <HI>Indians</HI> were got &s;o near, that utterly de&s;pairing to do <HI>her</HI> any Service, he ran out after his Children; Re&s;olving, that on the Hor&s;e, which he had with him, he would Ride away with <HI>That,</HI> which he &s;hould in this Extremity, find his Affections to pitch mo&s;t upon, and leave the Re&s;t, unto the care of the Divine Providence. He overtook his Children about Forty Rod from his Door; but <HI>then,</HI> &s;uch was the <HI>Agony</HI> of his Parental Af|fections, that he found it impo&s;&s;ible for him to Di&s;tingui&s;h any one of them from the re&s;t; wherefore he took up a Courageous Re&s;olution to Live and Dy with them all. A party of In|dians came up with him; and now, though they Fired at him, and he Fired at them, yet he man|fully kept at the Reer of his <HI>Little Army</HI> of Un|armed Children, while they Marched off, with the pace of a Child of Five years old; until, by the Singular Providence of God, he arrived &s;afe with them all, unto a place of Safety, about a Mile or two from his Hou&s;e. But his Hou&s;e mu&s;t in the mean Time, have more di&s;mal <HI>Tra|gaedies</HI> acted at it. The <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> trying to E&s;cape, with the New-born <HI>Infant,</HI> fell into the Hands of the Formidable Salvages; and tho&s;e furious Tawnies coming into the Hou&s;e, bid poor <HI>Du&s;tan,</HI>
<PB N="140" REF="71"> to Ri&s;e Immediately. Full of A&s;toni&s;hment, &s;he did &s;o; and &s;itting down in the Chimney, with an Heart full of mo&s;t fearful <HI>Expectation,</HI> &s;he &s;aw the Raging Dragons riffle all that they could carry away, and &s;et the Hou&s;e on Fire. About Nineteen or Twenty <HI>Indians,</HI> now led the&s;e a|way, with about Half a Score other Engli&s;h <HI>Captives;</HI> but e're they had gone many Steps, they da&s;h'd out the Brains of the <HI>Infant,</HI> again&s;t a Tree; and &s;everal of the other <HI>Captives,</HI> as they began to Tire in their &s;ad <HI>Journey,</HI> were &s;oon &s;ent unto their <HI>Long Home;</HI> the Salvages would pre&s;ently bury their Hatchets in their Brains, and leave their Carca&s;es on the Ground, for Birds and Bea&s;ts to feed upon. However, <HI>Du&s;tan</HI> (with her Nur&s;e) notwith&s;tanding her pre&s;ent Condition, Travelled that Night, about a Dozen Miles; and then kept up with their New Ma&s;ters, in a long Travel of an Hundred and Fifty Miles, more or le&s;s, within a few Days En&s;uing, without any &s;en&s;ible Damage, in their Health, from the Hard-&s;hips, of their <HI>Travel,</HI> their <HI>Lodging,</HI> their <HI>Diet,</HI> and their many other Difficulties. The&s;e Two poor Women, were now in the Hands of tho&s;e, who&s;e <HI>Tender Mer|cies are Cruelties;</HI> but the Good God, who hath all <HI>Hearts in His own Hands,</HI> heard the Sighs of the&s;e <HI>Pri&s;oners,</HI> and gave them to find unexpected Favour from the <HI>Ma&s;ter,</HI> who laid claim unto them. That <HI>Indian Family</HI> con&s;i&s;ted of Twelve
<PB N="141" REF="71"> Per&s;ons; Two Stout men, Three Women, and Seven Children; and for the Shame of many an <HI>Engli&s;h Family,</HI> that ha's the Character of, <HI>Prayerle&s;s,</HI> upon it, I mu&s;t now Publi&s;h what the&s;e poor Women a&s;&s;ure me: 'Tis <HI>This;</HI> In Obedience to the In&s;tructions, which the French have given them, they would have <HI>Prayers</HI> in their Family, no le&s;s than Thrice Every Day: In the <HI>Morning,</HI> at <HI>Noon,</HI> and in the <HI>Evening;</HI> nor would they ordinarily let their Children <HI>Eat</HI> or <HI>Sleep,</HI> without fir&s;t &s;aying their <HI>Prayers.</HI> In|deed the&s;e <HI>Idolaters,</HI> were like the re&s;t of their whiter Brethren, <HI>Per&s;ecutors;</HI> and would not en|dure, that the&s;e poor Women &s;hould Retire to their <HI>Engli&s;h Prayers,</HI> if they could hinder them. Neverthele&s;s, the poor Women, had nothing but fervent <HI>Prayers,</HI> to make their Lives Comfortable, or Tolerable; and by being daily &s;ent out, upon Bu&s;ine&s;s, they had Opportunities together and a&s;under, to do like another <HI>Hannah,</HI> in <HI>Pouring out their Souls before the Lord:</HI> Nor did their praying Friends among our &s;elves, forbear to <HI>Pour out</HI> Supplications for them. Now, they could not ob&s;erve it without &s;ome wonder, that their Indian Ma&s;ter, &s;ometimes, when he &s;aw them Dejected, would &s;ay unto them; <HI>What need you Trouble your &s;elf? If your God will have you delivered, you &s;hall be &s;o!</HI> And it &s;eems, our God would have it &s;o to be. This <HI>Indian Family,</HI> was now Travelling with the&s;e Two Cap|tive
<PB N="142" REF="72"> Women, (and an Engli&s;h youth, taken from <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> a year and half before,) unto a Ren|dezvouz of Salvages, which they call, a <HI>Town,</HI> &s;omewhere beyond <HI>Penacook;</HI> and they &s;till told the&s;e poor Women, that when they came to this Town, they mu&s;t be Stript, and Scourg'd, and run the <HI>Gantlet</HI> through the whole Army of <HI>Indians.</HI> They &s;aid, This was the <HI>Fa&s;hion,</HI> when the Captives fir&s;t came to a Town; and they derided &s;ome of the Faint hearted Engli&s;h, which, they &s;aid, fainted and &s;wooned away under the <HI>Torments</HI> of this Di&s;cipline. But on <HI>April.</HI> 30. While they were yet, it may be, a|bout an Hundred and Fifty Miles from the In|dian Town, a little before Break of Day, when the whole Crew was in a <HI>Dead Sleep;</HI> (Reader, &s;ee if it prove not So!) one of the&s;e Women, took up a Re&s;olution, to Imitate the Action of <HI>Jael</HI> upon <HI>Si&s;era;</HI> and being where &s;he had not her own <HI>Life</HI> &s;ecured by any <HI>Law</HI> unto her, &s;he thought &s;he was not Forbidden by any <HI>Law,</HI> to take away the <HI>Life</HI> of the <HI>Murderers,</HI> by whom her <HI>Child</HI> had been butchered. She heartened the <HI>Nur&s;e,</HI> and the <HI>Youth,</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t her in this En|terprize; and all furni&s;hing them&s;elves with <HI>Hat|chets</HI> for the purpo&s;e, they &s;truck &s;uch Home Blows, upon the Heads of their <HI>Sleeping Oppre&s;&s;ors,</HI> that e're they could any of them Struggle into any Effectual Re&s;i&s;tence, <HI>at the Feet</HI> of tho&s;e poor Pri&s;oners, <HI>they bowed, they fell, they lay down;
<PB N="143" REF="72"> at their feet they bowed, they fell; where they bow|ed, there they fell down Dead.</HI> Only one <HI>Squaw</HI> e&s;caped &s;orely wounded from them, in the Dark, and one <HI>Boy,</HI> whom they Re&s;erved A&s;leep, in|tending to bring him away with them, &s;uddenly wak'd, and skuttled away from this De&s;olation. But cutting off the <HI>Scalps</HI> of the <HI>Ten Wretches,</HI> they came off, and Received <HI>Fifty Pounds</HI> from the General A&s;&s;embly of the Province, as a Re|compence of their Action; be&s;ides which they Received many <HI>pre&s;ents of Congratulation</HI> from their more private Friends, but none gave 'em a greater Ta&s;t of Bounty, than Colonel <HI>Nichol|&s;on,</HI> the Governour of <HI>Maryland,</HI> who hearing of their Action, &s;ent 'em a very generous Token of his Favour.</P>
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<HEAD>ARTICLE. XXVI. <HI>Remarkable</HI> Salvations; <HI>and &s;ome Remarkable</HI> Di&s;a&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P>BE&s;ides a man Taken at <HI>York,</HI> in <HI>May,</HI> and a|nother man kill'd at <HI>Hatfield,</HI> in <HI>June,</HI> and a Third kill'd at <HI>Groton;</HI> and a Fourth with Two Children carried Captives: there fell out more <HI>Mi&s;chief,</HI> with no &s;mall <HI>Mercy,</HI> on <HI>Jun.</HI> 10. at <HI>Exeter.</HI> The Day before, &s;ome Women &amp; Chil|dren, would needs ramble without any Guard, into the Woods, to gather <HI>Straw-berries;</HI> but
<PB N="144" REF="73"> &s;ome that were willing to Cha&s;ti&s;e them with a <HI>Fright,</HI> for their pre&s;umption, made an <HI>Alarm</HI> in the Town; whereupon many came together in their <HI>Arms.</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> it &s;eems, were at this very Time, unknown to the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> lying on the other &s;ide of the Town ready to make a De&s;tructive A&s;&s;ault upon it; but Suppo&s;ing this <HI>Alarm</HI> to be made on <HI>their</HI> Account, they there|fore &s;uppo&s;ed them&s;elves to be di&s;covered. Wherefore they laid a&s;ide their purpo&s;e of at|tempting the De&s;truction of the Town; and contented them&s;elves, with <HI>Killing</HI> one man, <HI>Taking</HI> another, and <HI>Wounding</HI> a Third. But on <HI>July.</HI> 4. <HI>Lords Day,</HI> Major <HI>Charles Fro&s;t,</HI> who had been a Per&s;on of no little Con&s;equence to our Frontiers, Returning from the Publick Wor|&s;hip of God, in <HI>Berwick,</HI> (to repair unto which, about Five Miles from his own Hou&s;e, he had that Morning expre&s;s'd &s;uch an <HI>Earne&s;tne&s;s,</HI> that much Notice was taken of it,) pa&s;s'd &s;everal more Dangerous places, without any Damage; but in a place, on a little plain by the Turn of a <HI>Path,</HI> where no Danger was Expected, <HI>the Ad|der in the path</HI> Surprized him; the <HI>Indians</HI> having Stuck up certain Boughs upon a Log, there mor|tally Shot <HI>him,</HI> with Two more, while his <HI>Two Sons,</HI> that were in the Front of the Company hap|pily e&s;caped: And the Two young men, that Rode Po&s;t unto <HI>Wells,</HI> with the&s;e <HI>Tidings,</HI> in their going back, had their <HI>own Death</HI> added for another
<PB N="145" REF="73"> Article of &s;uch unhappy <HI>Tidings.</HI> About the latter End of this Month al&s;o, <HI>Three Men Mow|ing</HI> the Meadowes at <HI>Newichawannic,</HI> were them&s;elves <HI>Cut down</HI> by the <HI>Indians;</HI> tho' one of the <HI>Mowers</HI> bravely Slew one of the <HI>Murtherers.</HI> But the mo&s;t Important Action of this Year, was a little further off. About the beginning of <HI>July,</HI> Major <HI>March</HI> was Employ'd, with a|bout Five Hundred Souldiers, not only to De|fend the <HI>Frontiers,</HI> but al&s;o to &s;eek out, and Beat up, the Enemies Quarters. In the mean time, the Lieutenant Governour, apprehending an <HI>Inva&s;ion</HI> from a Formidable <HI>French Fleet</HI> on the Coa&s;t of <HI>New-England,</HI> with his accu&s;tomed prudence and vigour, applied him&s;elf to put the whole Province into a po&s;ture of Defence: And the <HI>Militia,</HI> with the &s;everal <HI>Forts,</HI> e&s;peci|ally that of <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> (very much through the Contrivance and Indu&s;try of Captain <HI>Fairwea|ther,</HI>) were brought into &s;o good a po&s;ture, that &s;ome could hardly forbear too much Depen|dence on our Preparations. But, it being more particularly Apprehended, that in the Intend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d <HI>Inva&s;ion,</HI> the <HI>Indians,</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;ted by the <HI>French,</HI> would make a De&s;cent upon our <HI>Frontiers</HI> by <HI>Land,</HI> Major <HI>March</HI> was advi&s;ed therefore to Employ &s;ome of his Forces, in Scouting about the Woods. Before the Major arrived at <HI>York,</HI> a party of the Enemy kill'd a man that &s;tood Centinel for &s;ome of his Neighbours at Work
<PB N="146" REF="74"> in the Mar&s;h at <HI>Wells;</HI> and catching another <HI>A|live,</HI> they carried him a mile and half off, and Roa&s;ted him to <HI>Death:</HI> But Captain <HI>Brackett,</HI> that followed him <HI>quite</HI> as far as <HI>Kennebunk,</HI> did but <HI>almo&s;t</HI> overtake them: For truly, Reader, our Souldiers cannot, as Antiquity Reports, the old <HI>Graecian,</HI> and <HI>Roman</HI> Souldiers could, march at a Running pace or tro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, heavily Loaded, five and twenty miles in four Hours; but rather &s;u&s;pect whether tho&s;e Reports of Anti|quity be not Romantick. Three Souldiers of <HI>Saco Fort,</HI> after this cutting &s;ome <HI>Fire-wood,</HI> on <HI>Cow-I&s;land,</HI> for the u&s;e of the Fort, were by the <HI>Indians</HI> cut off; while that Lieutenant <HI>Fletcher</HI> with his Two Sons, that &s;hould have Guarded them, went a <HI>Fowling;</HI> and by do+ing &s;o, <HI>they</HI> likewi&s;e &s;ell into the <HI>Snare.</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> carrying the&s;e Three Captives down the River in one of their <HI>Canoes,</HI> Lieutenant <HI>Larabe,</HI> that was abroad with a Scout, way-laid them; and Firing on the Foremo&s;t of the <HI>Canooes,</HI> that had Three men in it, they all Three fell and &s;ank in the <HI>River of Death.</HI> Several were kill'd aboard the other <HI>Canooes;</HI> and the re&s;t ran their <HI>Canooes</HI> a&s;hore, and E|&s;caped on the other &s;ide of the River: and one of the <HI>F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">etchers,</HI> when all the Indians with him were killed, was Delivered out of the Hands which had made a pri&s;oner of him: tho his poor Father afterwards Dyed a|mong
<PB N="147" REF="74"> them. Hereupon Major <HI>March,</HI> with his Army, took a Voyage farther Ea&s;tward; having &s;everal <HI>Tran&s;port Ve&s;sels</HI> to accommodate them. Arriving at <HI>Ca&s;co-Bay,</HI> they did, upon the Ninth of <HI>September,</HI> come as occult as they could, further Ea&s;t among the I&s;lands, near a place called, <HI>Corbins Sounds;</HI> and Landed be|fore Day, at a place called, <HI>Dama&s;cotta River:</HI> where, before Half of them were well got a|&s;hore, and drawn up, the &s;carce-yet-expected Enemy, Entertained them with a <HI>Volley,</HI> and an <HI>Huzza!</HI> None of ours were Hurt; but Major <HI>March,</HI> Repaid 'em in their own <HI>Lea|den Coin;</HI> and it was no &s;ooner Light, but a <HI>Con&s;iderable Battel</HI> En&s;ued. The Commanders of the <HI>Tran&s;port-Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> were per&s;ons of &s;uch a mettle, that they could not with any pati|ence, forbear going a&s;hore, to take a part of their <HI>Neighbours Fare;</HI> but the Enemy &s;eeing things operate this way, fled into their Fleet of <HI>Canooes</HI> which hitherto Lay out of &s;ight, and got off as <HI>fa&s;t,</HI> and as <HI>well,</HI> as they could, leaving &s;ome of their <HI>Dead</HI> behind them; which they never do, but when under ex|tream Di&s;advantages. Our Army thus beat 'em off, with the Lo&s;s of about a Dozen men: whereof One was, the worthy Captain <HI>Dym|mock</HI> of <HI>Barn&s;table:</HI> and about as many Woun|ded, whereof one was Captain <HI>Phillips</HI> of, <HI>Charl&s;town;</HI> and in this Action, Captain <HI>Whiting</HI><PB N="148" REF="75"> a young Gentleman of much <HI>Worth,</HI> and <HI>Hope,</HI> Courageou&s;ly acting his part, as Commander of the <HI>Forces,</HI> the <HI>Helpers of the War,</HI> which the Co|lony of <HI>Connecticut</HI> had Charitably lent unto this Expedition, had his Life remarkably re&s;cued, from a Bullet grazing the Top of his Head. But there was a Singular Providence of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, in the whole of this matter. For by the &s;ea&s;onable <HI>Arrival</HI> and <HI>Encounter</HI> of our Army, an horrible De&s;cent of <HI>Indians,</HI> which probably might have laid whole Plantations De|&s;olate, was mo&s;t happily <HI>Defeated</HI> And at the &s;ame Time, the Signal Hand of Heaven, gave a <HI>Defeat</HI> unto the purpo&s;es of the <HI>French Squa|drons</HI> at Sea, &s;o that they had &s;omething el&s;e to do, than to Vi&s;it the Coa&s;t of <HI>New-England.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE. XXVII.</HI> The End of the <HI>Year,</HI> and we hope of the <HI>War.</HI></HEAD>
<P>O <HI>Thou Sword of the Wilderne&s;s; When wilt thou be quiet?</HI> On <HI>Sept.</HI> 11. A party of the Enemy came upon the Town of <HI>Lancaster,</HI> then prepared for <HI>Mi&s;chief</HI> by a wonderful Security, and they did no little <HI>Mi&s;chief</HI> unto it. Near Twenty were killed, and among the re&s;t, Mr. <HI>John Whiting,</HI> the Pa&s;tor of the Church there: Five were carryed <HI>Captive;</HI> Two or Three <HI>Hou&s;es</HI> were burnt, and &s;everal <HI>Old People</HI> in them.
<PB N="149" REF="75"> Captain <HI>Brown,</HI> with Fifty men, pur&s;ued them, till the Night Stop't their pur&s;uit: but it &s;eems, a Strange <HI>Dog</HI> or two, unknown to the Company, did by their Barking, alarm the Enemy, to Ri&s;e in the Night, and Strip and Scalp an Engli&s;h Captive-Woman, and fly &s;o far into the Woods, that after Two Dayes Bootle&s;s Labour, our men Returned. <HI>November</HI> arrived, before any farther <HI>Blood &s;hed;</HI> and <HI>then,</HI> t'was only of one man, in the <HI>Woods,</HI> at <HI>Oy&s;ter-River. December</HI> arrived with the welcome Tidings, of a <HI>Peace</HI> concluded be|tween <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France;</HI> which made us Hope, that there would be little more of any <HI>Blood &s;hed</HI> at all. The <HI>Winter</HI> was the Severe&s;t, that ever was in the memory of man. And yet <HI>February</HI> mu&s;t not pa&s;s, without a Stroke upon <HI>Pemmaquid Chub,</HI> whom the Government had mercifully permitted after his <HI>Examination,</HI> to Retire un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o his Habitation in <HI>Andover.</HI> As much out of the way as to <HI>Andover,</HI> there came above Thirty Indians, about the middle of <HI>February,</HI> as if their Errand had been for a <HI>Vengeance</HI> upon <HI>Chub,</HI> whom (with his Wife) they now Ma&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cred there. They Took Two or Three Hou&s;e, and Slew Three or Four Per&s;ons; and Mr. <HI>Thomas Barnard,</HI> the worthy Mini&s;ter of the place, very narrowly E&s;caped their <HI>Fury.</HI> But in the mid&s;t of their <HI>Fury;</HI> there was one piece of <HI>Mercy,</HI> the like whereof had never been &s;een before: For, they had got Colonel <HI>Dudley Brad&s;treet,</HI> with his
<PB N="150" REF="76"> Family into their <HI>Hands;</HI> but perceiving, the Town Mu&s;tering to follow them, their <HI>Hearts</HI> were &s;o changed, that they di&s;mi&s;&s;ed their Cap|tives without any further Damage unto their Per&s;ons. Returning back by <HI>Haverhil,</HI> they <HI>kill'd</HI> a couple and a couple they <HI>Took,</HI> with &s;ome Remarkable circum&s;tances, worthy to be made a <HI>di&s;tinct History.</HI> But, Reader, we are now in Ha&s;t, for to have our <HI>pre&s;ent Hi&s;tory</HI> come unto an End: and though the end of this <HI>Year</HI> did not altogether prove the end of the <HI>War;</HI> for, on <HI>May</HI> 9. 1698. the Indians Murdered an old man, at <HI>Spruce-Creek,</HI> and carryed away Three Sons, of that old man; and wounded a man at <HI>York:</HI> yet we were not without pro&s;pect of our Troubles growing towards a period: and even in that very Murder at <HI>Spruce-creek</HI> there fell out one thing that might a little encourage our Hopes concerning it. The Murderer was a fa|mous kind of a <HI>Giant</HI> among the Indians; a Fellow Reputed Seven Foot High: This Fellow kill'd the poor old man in cold Blood, after he had Surrendred him&s;elf a Pri&s;oner: But behold, Before many Hours were out, this famous and bloody Fellow accidently Shot him&s;elf to Death, by his Gun going off, when he was fooli&s;hly pulling a Canoo to the Shore with it.</P>
<P>The la&s;t Bloody Action, that can have a Room in our Story is This</P>
<P>The <HI>Indians,</HI> (though &s;ometimes, it hath been
<PB N="151" REF="76"> much doubted, <HI>What Indians!</HI>) have in this War, made &s;everal De&s;cents upon &s;ome of the upper Towns, that were our mo&s;t <HI>Northerly Set|tlements</HI> upon <HI>Connecticut</HI> River. But the Pious, and Hone&s;t People in tho&s;e Towns, have al|ways given them a brave Repul&s;e, and had a no|table Experience of the Divine Favour to them, in their pre&s;ervations. <HI>Deerfield</HI> ha's been an Extraordinary In&s;tance of Courage, in keeping their <HI>Station,</HI> though they have lived all this while in a very <HI>Pihahiroth;</HI> and their worthy Pa&s;tor, Mr. <HI>John Williams,</HI> de&s;erves the Thanks of all this Province, for his Encouraging them all the ways Imaginable, to <HI>Stand</HI> their ground. Once the Enemy was like to have Surpri&s;ed them into a grievous De&s;olation; but <HI>he,</HI> with his Praying, and Valiant, little Flock, m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t hap|pily Repelled them. And now, about the mid|dle of <HI>July,</HI> 1698. a little before Sun &s;et, <HI>Four Indians,</HI> killed a Man and a Boy, in <HI>Hatfield</HI> Meadows; and carried away Two Boys, into Captivity. The Advice coming to <HI>Deerfield</HI> in the Night, they pre&s;ently Di&s;patched away Twelve men, to way lay the Enemy coming up the River; having fir&s;t, Look'd up unto the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, that they might find the <HI>Ene|my,</HI> and harm none but the <HI>Enemy,</HI> and Re&s;cue the Children which the <HI>Enemy</HI> had Seized upon. After a Travel of near Twenty Miles, they per|ceived the <HI>Indians,</HI> in their <HI>Canooes</HI> coming up the
<PB N="152" REF="77"> River, but on the other &s;ide of it, within a Rod or Two, of the oppo&s;ite Shore: Whereupon they &s;o <HI>Shot,</HI> as to <HI>Hitt</HI> one of the <HI>Indians,</HI> and then they all Jump't out of the <HI>Canooes,</HI> and one of the Boyes with them. The <HI>wounded Salvage</HI> crawled unto the Shoar; where, his <HI>back</HI> being broken, he lay in great Angu&s;h, often Endea|vouring with his Hatchet, for to knock out his own <HI>Brains,</HI> and tear open his own <HI>Brea&s;t,</HI> but could not: and another <HI>Indian</HI> &s;eeing the Two Boyes getting one to another, de&s;ign'd 'em a Shot, but his Gun would not go off: Where|upon he followed 'em with his Hatchet, for to have knock'd 'em on the Head; but ju&s;t as he come at 'em, one of our men &s;ent a <HI>Shot</HI> into him, that Spoilt his Enterprize; and &s;o the Boyes getting together, into one <HI>Canooe,</HI> brought it o|ver to the Friends thus concerned for them. The&s;e good men, &s;eeing their Exploit perform|ed thus far; <HI>Two Indians</HI> de&s;troy'd, and <HI>Two Children</HI> delivered, they fell to <HI>Prai&s;ing of God;</HI> and one young man particularly, kept thus Ex|pre&s;&s;ing him&s;elf; <HI>Surely, Tis God, and not we, that have wrought this Deliverance!</HI> But, as we have &s;ometimes been told. That even in the Beating of a <HI>Pul&s;e,</HI> the Dilating of the Heart, by a <HI>Dia&s;tole</HI> of Delight, may be turned into a con|tracting of it, with a <HI>Sy&s;tole</HI> of Sorrow: In the Beating of a few <HI>Pul&s;e,</HI> after this, they &s;ent five or &s;ix men, with the <HI>Canooe,</HI> to fetch the other,
<PB N="153" REF="77"> which was lodged at an I&s;land not far off, that they might pur&s;ue the other <HI>Indians:</HI> when tho&s;e two <HI>Indians</HI> having hid them&s;elves in the High-gra&s;s, unhappily Shot a quick <HI>Death,</HI> into the young man, who&s;e Expre&s;&s;ions were but now recited. This Hopeful young mans Bro|ther-in-Law, was intending to have gone out, upon this Action; but the young man him&s;elf importuned his Mother to let <HI>him</HI> go: which, becau&s;e he was an <HI>only Son,</HI> &s;he denyed; but then, fearing &s;he did not well to <HI>withold her Son</HI> from the Service of the Publick, &s;he gave him leave: &s;aying, <HI>See that you do now, and as you go along, Re&s;ign, and give up your &s;elf unto the Lord; and I de&s;ire to Re&s;ign you to Him!</HI> So he goes, and &s;o he dies; And may <HI>he</HI> be the <HI>last,</HI> that falls in a Long and Sad <HI>War,</HI> with <HI>Indian Salvages!</HI></P>
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<HEAD>ARTICLE XXVIII. <HI>The</HI> Epilogue <HI>of a Long</HI> Tragaedy.</HEAD>
<P>FOr the pre&s;ent then, the <HI>Indians</HI> have <HI>Done</HI> Murdering; They'l <HI>Do &s;o no more till next Time.</HI> Let us then have <HI>done</HI> Writing; when we have a little informed our &s;elves what is be|come of the chief <HI>Murderers</HI> among tho&s;e Wretches, for whom if we would find a <HI>Name</HI> of a Length like one of their own <HI>Indian</HI> Long-winded words, it might be,
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<Q>Bombardo-gladio-fun-ha&s;ti-flammi-loquentes.</Q></P>
<P>Major <HI>Convers,</HI> and Captain <HI>Alden,</HI> in pur&s;u|ance of In&s;tructions Received from the Lieut. Governour and Council, arriving at <HI>Penob&s;cet,</HI> on <HI>Oct.</HI> 14. 1698. were there informed, That <HI>Ma|dockawando,</HI> the noted Sagamore, with &s;everal o|ther <HI>Sachims</HI> of the Ea&s;t, were lately Dead. And &s;ix days after this, the chief <HI>Sachims</HI> now Living, with a great Body of Indians, Entertain|ed them with a Friendly Di&s;cour&s;e; wherein they &s;aid, That the Earl of <HI>Frontenac</HI> had &s;ent them word, there was a <HI>Peace</HI> concluded be|tween the Kings of <HI>France</HI> and <HI>England,</HI> and that one of the Articles in the <HI>Peace</HI> was, for Pri&s;oners on both &s;ides to be Returned, and they were Re&s;olved to obey the Earl of <HI>Frontenac</HI> as their Father; and accordingly &s;uch Pri&s;oners of ours, as they had now at hand, might immedi|ately Return, if <HI>we</HI> could <HI>per&s;wade</HI> them, for <HI>They</HI> would not <HI>Compel</HI> them. When our Eng|li&s;h Me&s;&s;engers argued with them, upon the <HI>perfidiou&s;ne&s;s</HI> of their making a <HI>New War,</HI> after their <HI>Submi&s;&s;ion,</HI> the <HI>Indians</HI> replied, That they were In&s;tigated by the <HI>Erench</HI> to do what they did, again&s;t their own Inclinations; adding, That there were two <HI>Je&s;uites,</HI> one toward <HI>Amo|no&s;coggin,</HI> the other at <HI>Narridgaway,</HI> both of which, they de&s;ired the Earl of <HI>Bellomont,</HI> and the Earl of <HI>Frontenac,</HI> to procure to be Remov|ed; otherwi&s;e it could not be expected, that a|ny
<PB N="155" REF="78"> <HI>Peace</HI> would continue long. The <HI>Indians</HI> al|&s;o, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Pri&s;oners, gave them to un|der&s;tand, that the la&s;t <HI>Winter,</HI> many, both <HI>Indi|ans,</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Pri&s;oners, were Starved to Death; and particularly, <HI>Nine Indians,</HI> in one company went a Hunting, but met with &s;uch hard cir|cum&s;tances, that after they had Eat up their <HI>Dogs,</HI> and their <HI>Coats,</HI> they Dyed horribly Fa|mi&s;hed: And &s;ince the la&s;t Winter, a grievous and unknown <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> is got among them, which con&s;umed them wonderfully. The Sagamore <HI>Saquadock,</HI> further told them, That the <HI>Kennebeck</HI> Indians, would fain have gone to War again, this la&s;t Summer, but the other <HI>Refu&s;ed,</HI> where|upon they likewi&s;e <HI>De&s;i&s;ted:</HI> And they Re&s;olved now, to <HI>Fight no more;</HI> but if any Ill Accident or Action, &s;hould happen on either &s;ide, he did in the Name of the Indians De&s;ire, That we would not pre&s;ently make a <HI>War</HI> upon it, but in a more amicable way compo&s;e the Differences.</P>
<P>That the <HI>Indian</HI> Affayrs might come to be yet more exactly under&s;tood, the General A&s;|&s;embly of the Province, Employ'd Colonel <HI>John Phillips,</HI> and Major <HI>Convers,</HI> to Settle them. The&s;e Gentlemen, took a Difficult and a Dan+gerous Voyage, in the Depth or Winter, unto the Ea&s;tern parts, in the Province-Galley, then under the Command of Captain <HI>Cyprian Southack;</HI> and the principal <HI>Sagamores</HI> of the <HI>Indians</HI> there coming to them, did again Renew, and Sub|&s;cribe
<PB N="156" REF="79"> the <HI>Submi&s;&s;ion,</HI> which they had formerly made in the year 1693. With this Addition unto it.</P>
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<Q REND="margQuotes"><P>And whereas, notwith&s;tanding the afore&s;aid Submi&s;&s;ion and Agreement, the &s;aid <HI>Indians</HI> belonging to the Rivers afore&s;aid, or &s;ome of them, thro' the ill coun&s;el and in&s;tigation of the <HI>French,</HI> have perpetrated &s;undry Ho&s;tilities again&s;t His Maje&s;ties Subjects, the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and have not Delivered and Returned home &s;everal Engli&s;h Captives in their Hands, as in the &s;aid Submi&s;&s;ion they Covenanted.</P>
<P>Wherefore, we who&s;e Names are hereunto Sub&s;cribed, Sagamores, Captains, and principal men of the <HI>Indians</HI> belonging unto the Rivers of <HI>Kennebeck, Ammono&s;coggin,</HI> and <HI>Saco,</HI> and parts adjacent, being &s;en&s;ible of our great Of|fence and Folly, in not complying with the afore&s;aid Submi&s;&s;ion and Agreement, and al&s;o of the Sufferings and Mi&s;chiefs, that we have hereby expo&s;ed our &s;elves unto; Do, in all Humble and mo&s;t Submi&s;&s;ive manner, ca&s;t our &s;elves upon His Maje&s;ties Mercy, for the par|don of all our Rebellions, Ho&s;tilities, and Vi|olations of our promi&s;es, praying to be Recei|ved into His Maje&s;ties Grace, and protection; And for, and on behalf of our &s;elves, and of all other the Indians, belonging to the &s;everal Rivers and places afore&s;aid, within the Sove|raignty of His Maje&s;ty of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> do a|gain
<PB N="157" REF="79"> acknowledge, and profe&s;s our Hearty and Sincere Obedience, unto the Crown of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and do &s;olemnly Renew, Ratify, and Confirm all and every of the Articles and A|greements, contained in the afore&s;aid Recited Commi&s;&s;ion. And in Te&s;timimony thereof, we, the &s;aid Sagamores, Captains, and princi|pal men, have hereunto &s;et our &s;everal Marks and Seals, at <HI>Ca&s;co Bay,</HI> near <HI>Mares-point,</HI> the Seventh Day of <HI>January,</HI> in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His Maje&s;ty, King <HI>WILLIAM</HI> the Third; <HI>Annoque Domini,</HI> 1698, 9.</P></Q>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sub&s;cribed, by, <HI>Moxus,</HI> and a Great Number more.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>In the pre&s;encee of
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>James Convers,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cyprian Southack.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Gills,</HI> Interpreter,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And <HI>Scodook,</HI> alias <HI>Samp&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>At this Time al&s;o, the <HI>Indians</HI> Re&s;tored as ma|ny of the <HI>Engli&s;h Captives,</HI> in their Hands, as were able to Travel above an Hundred Miles in this terrible Sea&s;on of the year, from their Head-quarters, down to the Sea-&s;ide; giving all po&s;&s;ible &s;atisfaction, for the Re&s;toration of the re&s;t, as Early in the Spring, as there could be a|ny Travelling.</P>
<P>The Condition of the&s;e <HI>Captives,</HI> has afford|ed
<PB N="158" REF="80"> many very <HI>Remarkable Things,</HI> whereof 'tis a thou&s;and pitties that &s;o many are lo&s;t. But be|cau&s;e one of the Two Gentlemen Employ'd as <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners</HI> for the Treaty with the <HI>Indians,</HI> took certain Minutes of <HI>Remarkable Things</HI> from &s;ome of the Captives, I am willing to give the Reader a Ta&s;t of them.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>At <HI>Mares point</HI> in <HI>Ca&s;co-Bay,</HI> <DATE><HI>Jan.</HI> 14. 1698, 9.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<Q REND="margQuotes"><P>THe Captives informed me, That the <HI>Indi|ans</HI> have Three Forts, at <HI>Narridgawog,</HI> and <HI>Narrackomagog,</HI> and <HI>Ama&s;&s;acanty.</HI> And at each of the&s;e Forts, they have a <HI>Chappel,</HI> and have <HI>Images</HI> in them.</P>
<P>They informed me, That Three Captives in one <HI>Wigwam,</HI> were Starved to Death la&s;t Win|ter.</P>
<P><HI>Mary Fairbanks,</HI> and <HI>Samuel Hutching,</HI> and &s;ome other Captives, told me, That <HI>Jonathan Hutching,</HI> belonging to <HI>Spruce-Creek,</HI> a Lad fourteen years old; They met him crying for want of Victuals, for in Two or Three Dayes he had nothing to Eat. Afterward, as he was going to fetch &s;ome Wood, he felt &s;omething hard in his Bo&s;ome. He put in his Hand, and unto his A&s;toni&s;hment, he found there Two Great, Large Ears of <HI>Indian Corn,</HI> which were very well Roa&s;ted. He Eat them, and knew not how they came unto <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">im.</P>
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<P>Some other of the Captives told me, That one <HI>Mary Catter,</HI> (which per&s;on we now brought home with us, belonging to <HI>Kittery</HI>) her Ma&s;ter and many other Indians, came down to <HI>Ca&s;co-Bay.</HI> There &s;eeing &s;ome Sloops, or Shallops, they thought they were the Engli&s;h coming upon them, and ran away, into the Woods, and left the &s;aid <HI>Mary Catter</HI> very Sick in the <HI>Wigwam,</HI> without any thing at all to Eat. They &s;taid away many dayes; but left a Fire in the <HI>Wigwam.</HI> She Lay wi&s;h|ing for &s;omething to Eat, and at length in came a <HI>Turtle.</HI> She got <HI>That,</HI> and Eat it; but after|wards began to De&s;pair of out living the <HI>Fa|mine,</HI> which was Returned upon her. At length, when &s;he was very Hungry, in came a <HI>Par|tridge;</HI> She took a Stick, and Struck it, and Dre&s;t it, and Eat it. And by that Time &s;he was Hungry again, her Ma&s;ter came to look after her.</P>
<P>They tell of &s;everal of the <HI>Indians,</HI> that have kill'd them&s;elves, with their own <HI>Guns,</HI> in taking them out of their <HI>Canooes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A&s;&s;acombuit</HI> &s;ent <HI>Thoma&s;in Rou&s;e,</HI> a Child of about Ten years old, unto the Water-&s;ide, to carry &s;omething. The Child cryed: He took a Stick, and &s;truck her down: She lay for Dead: He took her up, and Threw her into the water: Some Indians, not far off, ran in, and fetch'd her out. This Child we have now brought Home with us.</P>
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<P>This <HI>A&s;&s;acombuit</HI> hath killed and Taken this War, (they tell me) an Hundred and Fifty Men, Women, and Children. A Bloody De|vil.</P></Q>
<P><HI>Thus the Paper of Minutes.</HI></P>
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<P>The Reader now ha's nothing but <HI>Peace</HI> be|fore him. Doubtle&s;s he comforts him&s;elf with Hopes, of <HI>Times</HI> better to <HI>Live</HI> in, than to <HI>Write</HI> of!</P>
<P>BUt that which yet more a&s;&s;ures a <HI>Break of Day</HI> after a long and &s;ad <HI>Night</HI> unto us, is, That the Be&s;t <HI>King</HI> at this Day upon Earth, and the <HI>Greate&s;t Monarch,</HI> that ever Sway'd the Scep|ter of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> hath Commi&s;&s;ion'd a Noble Per&s;on, who hath in him an Illu&s;trious <HI>Image</HI> of His own <HI>Royal Vertues,</HI> to take the Government of the&s;e Provinces; and he is accordingly Ar|rived now near our Horizon. When the Schools of the Jews delivered, That there were <HI>Three Great Gifts</HI> of the Good God unto the world, The <HI>Law,</HI> the <HI>Rain,</HI> and the <HI>Light;</HI> R. <HI>Zeira</HI> added, I pray, let us take in <HI>Peace</HI> for a <HI>Fourth.</HI> All the&s;e <HI>Four Gifts</HI> of God, are now Enjoy'd by <HI>New-England:</HI> But I mu&s;t now ask, That our Hope of a <HI>Fifth</HI> may be added unto the Num|ber; which is, A GOVERNOUR, of Signalized Vertues. To the truly Noble Earl of BEL|LOMONT, the whole <HI>Engli&s;h Nation</HI> mu&s;t own it &s;elf Endebted, while it is a Nation, for the
<PB N="161" REF="81"> mo&s;t Generous and Succe&s;sful Zeal, with which he Laboured for tho&s;e <HI>Acts of Parliament;</HI> by A&s;&s;enting whereunto, the Mighty WILLIAM, hath Irradiated <HI>England,</HI> with <HI>Ble&s;&s;ings,</HI> that it never &s;aw before <HI>His</HI> Happy Reign: <HI>Ble&s;&s;ings</HI> richly worth all the Expences of a <HI>Revolution. England</HI> owes no le&s;s Immortal Statues, unto the Earl of <HI>Bellomont,</HI> than <HI>Ireland,</HI> unto his Illu&s;tri|ous Ance&s;tors. But the <HI>Continent</HI> of <HI>America,</HI> mu&s;t now Share in the Influences of that No|ble Per&s;on, who&s;e Merits have been Signalized on the mo&s;t famous <HI>I&s;lands</HI> of <HI>Europe;</HI> and the Greate&s;t Per&s;on, that ever &s;et foot, on the <HI>Eng|li&s;h Continent</HI> of <HI>America,</HI> is now Arrived unto it. We are now &s;atisfying our &s;elves in the Ex|pectations of the Great and Good Influences, to be derived from the Conduct of a Governour, in whom there will meet,
<Q>&mdash;Virtus et Summa potestas.</Q></P>
<P>And now, Reader, I will conclude our Hi&s;to|ry of the <HI>Indian War,</HI> in Terms like tho&s;e u&s;ed by the <HI>Syrian</HI> Writer at the Conclu&s;ion of his Book;</P>
<P><HI>Finis, per Auxilium Domini No&s;tri Je&s;u Chri&s;ti, men&s;e Duodecimo, per manus peccatoris pauperis et Errantis.</HI></P>
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<PB N="162" REF="82">
<HEAD>ARTICLE XXIX. <HI>Quakers Encountred.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr the pre&s;ent then, we have done with the <HI>Indians:</HI> But while the <HI>Indians</HI> have been thus mole&s;ting us, we have &s;uffered Mole&s;tati|ons of another &s;ort, from another &s;ort of Ene|mies, which may with very good Rea&s;on, be ca&s;t into the &s;ame <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> with them. If the <HI>Indians</HI> have cho&s;en to prey upon the <HI>Frontiers,</HI> and <HI>Out-Skirts,</HI> of the Province, the <HI>Quakers</HI> have cho&s;en the very &s;ame <HI>Frontiers,</HI> and, <HI>Out-Skirts,</HI> for their more <HI>Spiritual A&s;&s;aults;</HI> and fin|ding little <HI>Succe&s;s</HI> el&s;ewhere, they have been La|bouring <HI>ince&s;&s;antly</HI> and &s;ometimes not <HI>un&s;ucce&s;sful|ly,</HI> to Enchant and Poi&s;on the <HI>Souls</HI> of poor peo|ple, in the very places, where the <HI>Bodies</HI> and <HI>E|&s;tates,</HI> of the people have pre&s;ently after been devoured by the Salvages. But that which makes it the more agreeable, to allow the <HI>Qua|kers,</HI> an <HI>Article</HI> in our <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> of the <HI>Indians,</HI> is, That a certain &s;illy Scribbler, the very Fir&s;t-born of <HI>Non-&s;en&s;icality,</HI> (and a <HI>Fir&s;t-born</HI> too, that one might Salute as the Martyr <HI>Polycarp</HI> once did the wicked <HI>Marcion,</HI>) One <HI>Tom Maule;</HI> at this Time Living in <HI>Salem,</HI> hath expo&s;ed unto the Publick, a Volumn of <HI>Non&s;en&s;ical</HI> Bla&s;phemies and Haere&s;ies, wherein he &s;ets him&s;elf to Defend
<PB N="163" REF="82"> the <HI>Indians,</HI> in their Bloody Villanies, and Revile the Countrey for Defending it &s;elf again&s;t them. And that the <HI>Venome</HI> of this Pamphlet might be Improved unto the <HI>Heighth</HI> of <HI>Slanderous Wick|edne&s;s,</HI> there hath been &s;ince added unto it, in a|nother Pamphlet, a parcel of Ingredients com|pounded, for mi&s;chief, as if <HI>by the Art of the A|pothecary.</HI> None but he, whom the Jewes, in their <HI>Talmuds</HI> call, <HI>Ben-tamalion</HI> could have in&s;pi|red &s;uch a Slanderer! Have the <HI>Quakers</HI> ever yet Cen&s;ured, this their Author, for holding forth in his <HI>Alcoran,</HI> [pag. 221.] <HI>That the Devil, Sin, Death, and Hell, are but Nothing, they are but a Non-Entity:</HI> And, [pag. 183.] That <HI>all men who have a Body of Sin remaining in them, are</HI> Witches? I have cau&s;e to believe, that they never did! Nor that they ever advi&s;ed him to pull in his <HI>Horns,</HI> from goring the &s;ides of <HI>New-England,</HI> with &s;uch pa&s;&s;ages as tho&s;e, in [pag. 195.] the &s;ame horrible Pamphlet: <HI>God hath well Rewarded the Inhabitants of</HI> New-England, <HI>for their Unrighteous Dealings, towards the Native Indians, whom now the Lord hath &s;uffered to Rew<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Inhabitants, with a double mea&s;ure of Blood, by Fire and Sword, &amp;c.</HI> And tho&s;e <HI>Unrighteous Dealings,</HI> he Explains, to be the Killing of the <HI>Indians,</HI> (or Murdering of them) by the Old Planters of the&s;e <HI>Colonies,</HI> in their <HI>First Settle|ment.</HI> Thus are the A&s;hes of our <HI>Fathers</HI> vilely <HI>&s;taled</HI> upon, by one, who perhaps would not
<PB N="164" REF="83"> &s;tick at the Villany of doing as much upon their <HI>Bapti&s;m</HI> it &s;elf. I mu&s;t tell you, Friends, that if you don't publickly, <HI>give forth a Te&s;timony</HI> to Defy, <HI>Tom Maule,</HI> and <HI>his Works,</HI> it will be thought by &s;ome, who it may be don't wi&s;h you &s;o well, as I do, that you own this <HI>Bloody Stuff:</HI> which, doubtle&s;s you'l not be &s;o ill advi|&s;ed as to do. But, certainly, if the good peo|ple of <HI>New-England,</HI> now make it not a proverb for a <HI>Lyar</HI> of the Fir&s;t Magnitude, <HI>He is as very a Lyar as</HI> TOM MAULE; they will deprive their Language of one Significant Ex|pre&s;&s;ion, which now offers it &s;elf unto them.</P>
<P>Let us now Leave our Friend <HI>Maules</HI> Works, as a fit Volumn to be an <HI>Appendix</HI> unto the fa|mous <HI>Tartaretus,</HI> and worthy of a Room in <HI>Pantagruels</HI> Library. The fitte&s;t way to an&s;wer him, would be to &s;end him to <HI>Boston Woods!</HI></P>
<P>In the mean Time, I owe unto the Publick, a piece of <HI>Hi&s;tory,</HI> which it may be for the Safe|ty of our <HI>Northern Towns,</HI> to be acquainted with|al. Know, Sirs, That once the famous <HI>George Keith,</HI> undertook to be the Champion of our <HI>New-Engli&s;h</HI> Quakers; and bid fair to be the very <HI>Dalae,</HI> or <HI>Pre&s;ter John,</HI> of all the Engli&s;h <HI>Tartars;</HI> but a Mini&s;ter of <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> upon that oc|ca&s;ion, publi&s;hing a Book, Entituled, <HI>Little Flocks guarded again&s;t grievous Wolves,</HI> could not but complain of it, as a very <HI>Scandalous Thing,</HI> in <HI>George Keith,</HI> to maintain the points of the <HI>Foxian
<PB N="165" REF="83"> Quakeri&s;m,</HI> while he really differed from them. All this while, <HI>George Keith</HI> was admired by our <HI>Quakers,</HI> as an <HI>Apo&s;tle,</HI> or, an <HI>Oracle:</HI> but, he finding it impo&s;&s;ible to mentain the gro&s;s Tenets of the common <HI>Quakers,</HI> preach'd unto them the Nece&s;&s;ity of Believing on a <HI>Chri&s;t without,</HI> as well as a <HI>Chri&s;t within.</HI> Hereupon, there grew &s;uch alienations between him, and the other <HI>Quakers,</HI> (who had been taught by <HI>George Fox,</HI> to &s;ay, <HI>The Devil is in them, who &s;ay, they are Saved by Christ without them:</HI>) that he not only ha's written diver&s;e Learned Books, to confute tho&s;e very Doctrines of the Common <HI>Quakers,</HI> which the Pa&s;tors of <HI>New-England</HI> had, upon his Pro|vocation, Written again&s;t, but al&s;o ha's therefore undergone a Storm of <HI>Per&s;ecution,</HI> from the Friends in <HI>Pen&s;ylvania:</HI> Yea, 'tis verily thought, that poor <HI>George</HI> would have been made a Sacri|fice to Squire <HI>Samael Jennings,</HI> and the re&s;t of the <HI>Pen&s;ylvanian Dragons,</HI> and that, &s;ince a crime which their Laws ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> made <HI>Capital,</HI> was men|tion'd in the <HI>Mittimus</HI> whereby <HI>Keith</HI> was com|mitted, they would have Hang'd him, if a <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|volution</HI> upon their Government had not &s;et him at liberty. Being by the Fines, and Gaols, and Fierce U&s;ages of the <HI>Quakers</HI> in <HI>Pen&s;ylvania,</HI> dri+ven over to <HI>England,</HI> the Wonderful Hand of God, hath made this very man, I think I may &s;ay, incomparably the greate&s;t <HI>Plague,</HI> that ever came upon that Sect, of <HI>Energumens.</HI> Although
<PB N="166" REF="84"> he do him&s;elf &s;till retain the Name of a <HI>Quaker,</HI> yet he hath in one Treati&s;e after another, Ear|ne&s;tly called upon the Divines, throughout the Nation, more Vigorou&s;ly to Employ their <HI>Ta|lants,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Quakers,</HI> as a more <HI>Dangerous Generation</HI> of People than they are well aware; and he did in the year 1696. with the leave of the <HI>Lord Mayor,</HI> Challenge the <HI>Quakers,</HI> to make their Appearance at <HI>Turners Hall,</HI> in the chief City of <HI>Europe;</HI> where he proved unto the Satis|faction of a va&s;t A&s;&s;embly, that the chief Writers of the <HI>Quakers,</HI> a&s;&s;ert <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> neither to be <HI>God,</HI> nor <HI>Man;</HI> and that they deny <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> to be pray'd unto; and that they had affirm'd, <HI>Chri&s;ts out|ward Blood, &s;hed on the Ground, to be no more than the Blood of another Saint;</HI> and that they had charged him with <HI>New-Doctrine,</HI> for directing to <HI>Faith</HI> in <HI>Chri&s;t without us,</HI> as well as <HI>within us;</HI> and that at their Meetings, they had cen&s;ured him, for &s;aying, <HI>That Chri&s;ts Body came out of the Grave,</HI> which they &s;ay, <HI>It never did:</HI> And many more &s;uch horrid matters. To confirm the&s;e things, Be&s;ides the grievous <HI>Bites</HI> which <HI>Francis Bugg,</HI> one of their late Friends, hath given them, one <HI>Daniel Leeds,</HI> without wholly ca&s;ting off the Profe&s;&s;ion of a <HI>Quaker,</HI> hath lately Printed a Book, wherein he produces above <HI>Three&s;core</HI> In|&s;tances, of the <HI>Flat Contradictions,</HI> which he hath ob&s;erved in the Books of the <HI>Friends,</HI> that have mo&s;t pretended unto <HI>Infallibility;</HI> and he demon|&s;trates
<PB N="167" REF="84"> from evident matter of Ea&s;t, that though they declared unto the World, <HI>That their Suffe|rings had been greater, and more unju&s;t, than the Sufferings of Je&s;us, and His Apo&s;tles;</HI> yet they them&s;elves were no &s;ooner mounted into the Seat of Government, than they fell to <HI>Per&s;ecuting</HI> as bad as any in the World. Albeit <HI>Fox</HI> writes, <HI>They that cau&s;e People to be put in Pri&s;on, and have their Goods taken away, are Di&s;orderly Teachers, and &s;hall be rooted out:</HI> Neverthele&s;s <HI>Leeds</HI> proves by many Exemples, that the <HI>Pen&s;ylvanians</HI> did it, even upon their own Friends, for meer <HI>Scruples</HI> of their <HI>Con&s;ciences.</HI> 'Tis reported, The <HI>Quakers</HI> are &s;o confounded at this Book of <HI>Leeds,</HI> that they have been at the charge to buy up the <HI>whole Impre&s;&s;ion</HI> of it, and &s;o to Stiffle and Smo|ther it: If it be &s;o, I hope 'twill but produce a <HI>New Impre&s;&s;ion</HI> of &s;o rare a Book. The <HI>Marvel|lous Providence</HI> of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, having thus employ'd, the Pens of the <HI>Quakers</HI> them|&s;elves, to warn you, that you beware of <HI>Quaker|i&s;m,</HI> it will be a marvellous Infatuation in any of <HI>you,</HI> after this, to be led away with <HI>that Error of the Wicked.</HI> Reader, make a Pau&s;e, and here Admire the <HI>Marvellous Providence</HI> of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t! The fir&s;t and great Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Quakers,</HI> even <HI>George Fox,</HI> the Shoe-maker, in his, <HI>Great Mystery,</HI> Pag. 94. Excludes from the Church of Chri&s;t, Tho&s;e who <HI>are not Infallible, in Di&s;cern|ing the Hearts of other men.</HI> Whereas now in
<PB N="168" REF="85"> Spite of all their <HI>Infallibility,</HI> &s;uch Friends as <HI>Keith</HI> (and <HI>Leeds</HI>) whom they once admired, profe&s;s that they never in their <HI>Hearts Believed,</HI> as the Common <HI>Foxian Quakers</HI> do; and <HI>Qua|keri&s;m</HI> Suffers from none in the world more than the&s;e. But that I may a little Sugge&s;t unto you, certain Methods of Encountring tho&s;e Adver&s;a|ries of your <HI>Faith,</HI> which <HI>go about, &s;eeking whom they may deceive,</HI> and whom I do here offer to prove as horrid <HI>Idolaters,</HI> as even tho&s;e that wor&s;hipp'd the Rats of <HI>Egypt,</HI> if it be fairly demanded of me, I will fir&s;t Recite unto you, certain pa&s;&s;ages, of a Di&s;cour&s;e, which a Mini&s;ter of <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> had with a very Bu&s;y and Noi&s;y Teacher among the <HI>Quakers,</HI> (and another of the <HI>Friends,</HI>) in his Return from his <HI>Vi&s;itation</HI> unto &s;ome of our Northern Towns, where the Giddy People, had cry'd him up for a <HI>None-Such.</HI></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>We are come to give thee a Friendly Vi&s;it.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am glad to &s;ee you, at my Hou&s;e; you &s;hall be welcome to the be&s;t Entertain|ments, my Hou&s;e can afford you.</P>
<P>But will you do me the Favour, to let me under&s;tand, the De&s;igns upon which you vi&s;it the&s;e parts of the Country?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I come to preach Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>Excu&s;e me&mdash; What <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> I pray?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>The &s;ame Chri&s;t, that appeared unto</HI>
<PB N="169" REF="85"> Abraham, <HI>and</HI> I&s;aac, <HI>and</HI> Jacob; <HI>and that appear|ed unto</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>in the Bu&s;h, and that was with</HI> I&s;rael <HI>in the Wilderne&s;s.</HI>&mdash;</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I would interrupt you. I perceive, that we &s;hall be drawn into &s;ome Di&s;cour&s;e. Matter of <HI>Argument</HI> will occur, I fore&s;ee, in our Di&s;cour&s;e. <HI>Argument</HI> &s;ometimes does draw forth <HI>Words</HI> that may have too much <HI>Warmth</HI> in them. I purpo&s;e none &s;uch. But if you are &s;en&s;ible, that I do let fall any <HI>one &s;uch word,</HI> in our Di&s;putation, do me the favour, to take notice of it unto me, and I'le immediately cor|rect it. Now, if you plea&s;e; &mdash;</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Thou &s;peake&s;t very well. This is but according to the Good Report we have heard of thee.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>Friend, I am &s;en&s;ible, that you are come among us, to preach a <HI>Religion,</HI> different from that which is commonly Preached, Profe&s;&s;ed, &amp; Practi&s;ed in the Country. If you approve the <HI>Religion</HI> of the Country, I can't &s;ee, where's the Sen&s;e of it, for <HI>you</HI> to take &s;uch tedious Journeys for our Illumination. I pray, be &s;o kind as to let me know, what point in our Holy <HI>Religion,</HI> you do <HI>not</HI> Approve?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>'Tis not my Bu&s;ine&s;s here to Enquire in|to thy Religion. I am come to preach the Religion of Je&s;us Christ; the &s;ame that the Holy Prophets and Apo&s;tles believed; even the Inward manife&s;tation of Chri&s;t in our Hearts,</HI>&mdash;</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>To make &s;hort work on it; I per|ceive
<PB N="170" REF="86"> you both to be that &s;ort of people, we call <HI>Quakers.</HI> Now, there is among the <HI>Quakers,</HI> that extream Uncertainty, Varie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y, and Con|tradiction, that no man, can &s;ay what you hold, any further than each <HI>Individual Per&s;on,</HI> will con|fe&s;s his own Tenets. I mu&s;t therefore, pray the favour of you, to tell me; Do you own <HI>George Foxes</HI> Book, Entituled, <HI>The Great My|&s;tery?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>'Tis none of our Bu&s;ine&s;s, to tell what Books we own, and what we do not own: And it is none of thy Bu&s;ine&s;s to Ask us. I &s;ay, We own Je|&s;us Chri&s;t, and His Inward Manife&s;tation in our Hearts. And that's Enough!</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>You'l Excu&s;e me: I do again ask, whether you do own <HI>George Foxes</HI> Book, of, <HI>The Great My&s;tery?</HI> Becau&s;e doubtle&s;s you have Read it. And if you'l ask <HI>me,</HI> as much con|cerning any Book under Heaven, (that I have Read,) <HI>Whether</HI> I own it, or, <HI>How much</HI> I own of it, I'l an&s;wer you with all the Freedom in the world.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I &s;ay, What ha&s;t thou to do with</HI> George Fox? <HI>or, to Examine me?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, Friend, I do, and mu&s;t, and will Examine <HI>You.</HI> For you are come to <HI>Hold Forth</HI> unto as many of <HI>my Flock,</HI> as you can. And the Word of God bids me to <HI>Try</HI> you. And, I have to do with <HI>George Eox</HI> too: becau&s;e <HI>George Fox,</HI> in his Writings, has to do with <HI>me.</HI>
<PB N="171" REF="86"> And if you will &s;incerely tell me, whether you own <HI>George Fox,</HI> or no, I &s;hall more probably tell, <HI>who</HI> you are. In &s;hort; If you'l &s;ay, you Deny and Renounce <HI>George Fox,</HI> then I mu&s;t go another way to work with you. If you'l &s;ay you own him, then I mu&s;t endeavour to Save you, from &s;ome of his <HI>Damnable Haere&s;ies.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What Haere&s;ies?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Numberle&s;s. But I do at this Time call to mind <HI>Three</HI> of them.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t. <HI>That the Soul of man, is without Begin|ning, and Infinite.</HI> This is, if I forget not, in the 90th page of that Book.</P>
<P>Secondly. <HI>That it is not contrary to the Scrip|ture, That God the Father took upon Him Humane Nature.</HI> And, <HI>That the Scripture does not tell peo|ple of a Trinity, nor Three Per&s;ons in God; but that the&s;e Three Per&s;ons were brought in by the Pope.</HI></P>
<P>This is in pag. 246.</P>
<P>Thirdly. <HI>That they that are not compleat in San|ctification, are not compleat in Ju&s;tification.</HI></P>
<P>This is in, pag. 284. Now,</P>
<P>What &s;ay ye, Syrs?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What ha&s;t thou to do, to Rake into the A&s;hes of the Dead? Let</HI> George Fox <HI>alone. Ha&s;t thou any thing to charge upon me?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;hall know, if you'l tell me, whe|ther you own <HI>George Fox</HI> or no. And you <HI>can</HI> tell me, if you <HI>will.</HI> I would be more civil to <HI>you,</HI> Syrs.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="172" REF="87">
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I never &s;aw that Book of</HI> George Fox.</P>
<P>[And &s;o &s;aid, the other <HI>Quaker,</HI> that was with him.]</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Syrs, you a&s;toni&s;h me! What? Ne|ver &s;ee <HI>George Foxes</HI> Book, of, <HI>The Great My&s;tery!</HI> 'Tis impo&s;&s;ible! This Thing is to <HI>me,</HI> a <HI>My&s;te|ry!</HI> Syrs, That Book is the very <HI>Bible</HI> of <HI>Quake|ri&s;m.</HI> 'Tis E&s;&s;ential unto a <HI>Quaker,</HI> at lea&s;t, un|to a <HI>Teaching Quaker,</HI> as you are, to be <HI>Indoctri|nated</HI> from that Book. Never &s;ee it, man!&mdash; However, if you &s;ay &s;o, I mu&s;t Believe it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P>[Fell into an Harangue, <HI>Repeating</HI> what he had Preached abroad, about the Coun|trey; which, becau&s;e I would mi&s;recite no|thing, I dare not undertake exactly to Recite in this place.]</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I perceive our Conver&s;ation, will be to little Advantage, except we get a little clo&s;er to &s;ome <HI>certain point,</HI> which I have hitherto En|deavoured but ineffectually.</P>
<P>Syrs, There are &s;everal points, which I would willingly bring you to. And there happening to be &s;everal of my Hone&s;t Neighbours at hand, I have pray'd them (with your leave,) to walk in, that they may be Witne&s;&s;es of what pa&s;&s;es between us.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, I'll begin, if you plea&s;e, with <HI>This.</HI></P>
<P>I told you at the Beginning, I would not wil|lingly Treat you, with one <HI>Hard word.</HI> There is an <HI>Hard word,</HI> which will pre&s;ently occur, by
<PB N="173" REF="87"> the unavoidable cour&s;e of Di&s;putation. I would pray you, to ea&s;e me of the Trouble of &s;peak|ing it. You &s;hall your &s;elf have the &s;peaking of it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What's that?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I pray, Friend, what doth the Scrip|ture &s;ay, of them that &s;ay, <HI>They know Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> and yet <HI>keep not His Commandments?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Nay, What do&s;t thou &s;ay, the Scripture &s;ayes in that ca&s;e?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>You will compel me, I &s;ee.&mdash;I &s;ay then: The Scripture &s;aies, <HI>He that &s;ays, I know Him, and keeps not His Commandments, is a Lyar, and the Truth is not in him.</HI> 'Tis in 1 Joh. 2.4.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>And what then?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why <HI>this</HI> then. He that &s;ays, <HI>I know Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> and yet <HI>keeps not the Command|ments</HI> of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, is a <HI>Lyar,</HI> and the <HI>Truth is not in him.</HI></P>
<P>You &s;ay, <HI>You know Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> But you mu&s;t give <HI>me</HI> leave to &s;ay, That you <HI>Keep not the Com|mandments</HI> of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Therefore,</HI>&mdash;pray Syrs, do <HI>you</HI> help out the <HI>Con|clu&s;ion.</HI> I am loth to &s;peak it. You know what it is.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Yes, yes. We know well enough what Conclu&s;ion, thou wouldest be at: Thou woulde&s;t &s;ay, That we are Lyars, and that the Truth is not in us.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Right! Since it mu&s;t be &s;o.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>But what Commandment of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, is there, that we don't keep?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="174" REF="88">
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Commandment of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, is, For His Di&s;ciples to be <HI>Bapti&s;ed with Water;</HI> But you, <HI>Qua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">kers,</HI> do not keep that Com|mandment of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How do&s;t thou prove, that Je&s;us Chri&s;t commanded Bapti&s;m with Water?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>I know, you mu&s;t have the word, <HI>Water,</HI> or nothing will content you. El&s;e I would have urged, for a Sufficient proof, our Lords Commanding His Mini&s;ters, to <HI>Bapti&s;e</HI> men, [Matth. 28.19.] This <HI>Command</HI> Expre&s;&s;es our <HI>Duty.</HI> 'Tis not our <HI>Duty</HI> to <HI>Bapti&s;e</HI> men with the <HI>Holy Spirit.</HI> This belongs not unto <HI>Us,</HI> but unto <HI>Him,</HI> who's that <HI>Holy Spirit</HI> is. You will not &s;ay, we <HI>Sin,</HI> if we don't <HI>Bapti&s;e</HI> the Di&s;ciples in all Nations, with the <HI>Holy Spirit.</HI> So then, it mu&s;t be a <HI>Bapti&s;m with Water,</HI> which is there Commanded by our Lord. But, as I &s;aid, you mu&s;t have the word, <HI>Water;</HI> &amp; you &s;hall have it.</P>
<P>The Apo&s;tle <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aid,&mdash;</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>The Apo&s;tle</HI> Peter! <HI>The Apo&s;tle</HI> Peter! <HI>Thou wa&s;t to prove that Je&s;us Chri&s;t Commanded Bap|ti&s;m with Water. And now, Thou art come to the Apostle</HI> Peter!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Stay, Friend; not &s;o fa&s;t! Will you &s;ay then, that the Commandments brought by the Apo&s;tle <HI>Peter,</HI> as the Commandments of Je|&s;us Chri&s;t, are not the Commandments of Je&s;us Chri&s;t? But however, I'le mend the Expre&s;&s;ion,&mdash;</P>
<P>The <HI>Spirit</HI> of Je&s;us Chri&s;t in the Apo&s;tle <HI>Pe|ter,</HI>
<PB N="175" REF="88"> (Now, I hope, it fits you!)&mdash;</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P>[J. S.] <HI>Thou art a Mon&s;ter, all Mouth, and no Ears,</HI>&mdash;</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>&mdash;Prethee, talk Civilly, Don't make me Believe, that I am at <HI>Ephe&s;us.</HI> If I were in one of <HI>your</HI> Hou&s;es, I would not give <HI>you</HI> &s;uch Language; you had but now, a greater liberty to u&s;e your <HI>Mouth,</HI> than I have hitherto taken; and my <HI>Ears</HI> were patient. But, you fore&s;ee my Argument, is going to pinch you. 'Tis but <HI>Civility</HI> to let me Fini&s;h it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Thou wa&s;t to prove, that Je&s;us Chri&s;t Commanded Bapti&s;m with Water. And thou ha&s;t not proved it. And therefore thou Speake&s;t Fal&s;ely.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>What do you mean? The&s;e little <HI>Shuffles</HI> won't help you.</P>
<P>I &s;ay, The <HI>Spirit</HI> of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, in the A|po&s;tle <HI>Peter,</HI> after our Lords A&s;cen&s;ion, when it was Impo&s;&s;ible for <HI>Johns</HI> Bapti&s;m (which was into the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> Suddenly to come, not, already come,) &s;hould have place, did &s;ay, in Act. 10 47. <HI>Can any man Forbid Water, that the&s;e &s;hould not be Bapti&s;ed, which have Received the Holy Gho&s;t?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How does this prove, That Je&s;us Chri&s;t Commanded the&s;e to be Bapti&s;ed with water?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thus; &mdash;</P>
<P>If Je&s;us Chri&s;t had not <HI>Commanded Bapti&s;m with Water,</HI> any man might have then <HI>Forbid</HI> it.</P>
<P>But, no man could <HI>Forbid</HI> it.</P>
<P><HI>Therefore</HI> Je&s;us Chri&s;t Commanded it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="176" REF="89">
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Therefore! Therefore!</HI> Argo, Argo! <HI>Why, Do&s;t thou think, Religion is to be proved by thy</HI> Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">efore's, <HI>by thy</HI> Argo's?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>Friend, I perceive, the word, <HI>There|fore,</HI> is a ver<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> dead doing &s;ort of a Word to yee. I'le di&s;mi&s;s this Terrible Word. I'le only &s;ay, The Rea&s;on, why none could forbid Believers to be <HI>Bapti&s;ed with Water,</HI> was meerly <HI>Becau&s;e</HI> Je&s;us Chri&s;t Commanded it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P>BECAUSE; <HI>Why, the word,</HI> Becau&s;e <HI>is as bad as the word,</HI> Therefore.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>[Smiling.] It may be &s;o. But in the mean time, you are wonderfully unrea&s;ona|ble! I &s;ay, why could none <HI>forbid Water,</HI> for the Faithful to be <HI>Bapti&s;ed.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Who &s;ayes, None could Forbid Water? 'Tis only &s;aid, Can any man Forbid Water?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I pray, Syrs; And is not this, <HI>None can.</HI></P>
<P>But I'l bring the matter to bear upon you, without tho&s;e two Dangerous words, THERE|FORE, and BECAUSE; at which you are &s;o terrified.</P>
<P>I will put the matter into the Form of a <HI>Que&s;tion:</HI> And your <HI>An&s;wer</HI> to this <HI>Que&s;tion,</HI> &s;hall put an End, to our pre&s;ent Velitations.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker,</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What have we to do to An&s;wer thy Que&s;tions?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Que&s;tion is,</P>
<P><HI>Whether a man might not forbid in the Wor&s;hip
<PB N="177" REF="89"> of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, what Je&s;us Chri&s;t Him&s;elf hath no way Commanded?</HI></P>
<P>You can An&s;wer this <HI>Que&s;tion,</HI> if you will; &amp; I de&s;ire, I demand your <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What? For us to an&s;wer thy Questions! That would be, to En&s;nare our &s;elves.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am very &s;en&s;ible of <HI>That.</HI> There|fore, take Notice, You are <HI>En&s;nared,</HI> in the <HI>Toyls</HI> of your own mi&s;erable Delu&s;ions. But &s;till, I &s;ay, An&s;wer my <HI>Que&s;tion.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Do you &s;ee, Neighbours? Friend</HI> M. <HI>was to prove, that Je&s;us Chri&s;t commanded Bapti&s;m, and now, he's come to a Que&s;tion!</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>So I am Truly. And, I &s;ee 'tis a <HI>Que&s;tion,</HI> that puts you into a <HI>Sweat.</HI> I be&s;eech you to <HI>An&s;wer</HI> it. I <HI>Require</HI> you to An&s;wer it. What &s;hall I &s;ay? I <HI>Defy</HI> you to An&s;wer it. Par|don my <HI>Cogency;</HI> You <HI>Force</HI> me to 't!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I &s;ay, How does a Que&s;tion prove, That Je&s;us Chri&s;t commanded Bapti&s;m with Water? And why do&s;t thou Bapti&s;e Infants?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, I'le keep you to the <HI>Que&s;tion.</HI> Your <HI>An&s;wer</HI> to the <HI>Que&s;tion,</HI> will prove it; I am de&s;igning to make <HI>you your &s;elves</HI> prove it. And, Sirs, I do here offer to you, That I will give the be&s;t <HI>An&s;wer</HI> I can, to any <HI>Que&s;tion</HI> in the world, that you &s;hall put unto <HI>me:</HI> why are you &s;o loath to An&s;wer one &s;hort <HI>Que&s;tion</HI> of mine?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I be not obliged to An&s;wer thy Que&s;tion?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I mu&s;t contrive &s;ome fair way, to
<PB N="178" REF="90"> <HI>Compel</HI> &s;ome An&s;wer unto this <HI>one Question.</HI> Give me leave therefore to tell you, That if you do not An&s;wer this <HI>Que&s;tion,</HI> you go away conquered and confounded. Yea, Sirs, I mu&s;t in Faithful|ne&s;s tell you, That you carry away, the dreadful Mark of <HI>Hereticks,</HI> upon you, Even, <HI>To be Con|demned in your own Con&s;cience.</HI> You go away, <HI>Self-Condemned,</HI> That you don't keep the <HI>Com|mandments of Je&s;us Chri&s;t;</HI> and Therefore, That you are, &mdash; what, you Remember, the Apo&s;tle <HI>John</HI> &s;aid concerning you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I don't condemn Thee, for u&s;ing Bapti&s;m with Water.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>This is no <HI>An&s;wer</HI> to the <HI>Question</HI> &s;till: For you don't ob&s;erve it your &s;elf; nei|ther you, nor any <HI>Quakers</HI> under Heaven. Where|fore I &s;till urge for an <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Thou art not Civil to us. Is this thy Ci|vility to Strangers? We have heard a Great Fam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of thee, for thy Civil, and obliging carriage, towards others that are not of thy per&s;wa&s;ion. But now thou are uncivil to us. That which I have to &s;ay, is, I will keep to that Book, the Bible, and I will preach what is in that Book.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>[Taking up the Bible,] Friend, you pretend then to under&s;tand <HI>this Book.</HI> I do here make you this offer; That I will immedi|ately Turn you to <HI>Ten</HI> &s;everal places, in one Book of this Holy Bible, [the <HI>Chronicles,</HI>] And if you can give me a Tolerable Solution of any <HI>one</HI> of
<PB N="179" REF="90"> them, I'le acknowledge that you are worthy to preach out of it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Can&s;t thou do it thy &s;elf?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I Humbly Hope, I can.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How do&s;t thou know that I can't?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;ay, you <HI>can't.</HI> Now do you Accept my offer: If you <HI>can,</HI> I'l own, that I have wrong'd you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What's that to thee, what I can do?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Look you, Neighbours: I think, 'tis to no purpo&s;e, to proceed unto any other points, with &s;uch <HI>unrea&s;onable Folks</HI> as the&s;e. You &s;ee, how <HI>'Tis.</HI> If <HI>you</HI> de&s;ire it, I'l proceed.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Neighbours.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, Syr, 'Tis to no purpo&s;e, they are a people of no Rea&s;on.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Nay, Friend</HI> M.&mdash; <HI>I would not have thee to be &s;o Hard upon us. I mean Thee no Harm. I hear, thou take&s;t a great deal of pains for the good of thy people. And they will do well, to Hearken to Thee. I have Rebuked &s;ome of them for &s;peaking Evil of thee. Yea, It is my Judgment, That thou, and other &s;uch Ministers as Thou art, ought Honou|rably to be maintained by the people.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>You differ from all your <HI>Friends,</HI> me|thinks. What? Would you have us to be <HI>Hire|lings?</HI> 'Tis very &s;trange to hear a <HI>Quaker</HI> plead for the <HI>Maintainance</HI> of our <HI>Mini&s;try.</HI> But for your &s;atisfaction, I'l tell you, The people whom I Serve, I never once in all my Life <HI>Ask'd</HI> for any <HI>Maintainance</HI> or Salary; and I never made
<PB N="180" REF="91"> any <HI>Agreement</HI> with them about any <HI>Salary,</HI> in all my Life.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I &s;ay, I would not have Thee too Hard upon us.</HI> New England <HI>has Per&s;ecuted our Friends at a grievous Rate.</HI>&mdash;</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, Friends, Be not you too Hard upon <HI>me,</HI> about that matter. I Approve <HI>Per&s;e|cution,</HI> as Little as any of you all. I <HI>abhor</HI> it; I have <HI>Preach'd</HI> again&s;t it, I have <HI>Writ</HI> again&s;t it, I have <HI>Bewayled</HI> the mi&s;takes that &s;ome Good men have committed in it. I would have you Treated with all the <HI>Civility,</HI> imaginable. I would not have the <HI>Civil Magistrate</HI> inflict up on you, the Damage of one Farthing for your Con&s;ciences.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>But now, you may &s;ee, how the Judg|ments of God, are come upon the Ea&s;t Country, by the Indians for your Per&s;ecution.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I can't tell <HI>That</HI> neither. For tho' I am &s;orry at my Heart, that ever you were Per&s;ecuted: Yet, I can't &s;ay, That becau&s;e <HI>Bo|&s;ton</HI> was guilty of Per&s;ecution, therefore <HI>Newi|chawannic,</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Bay,</HI> (places in other Pro|vinces,) that never had any &s;uch thing in it, mu&s;t be cut off.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Yes, they Per&s;ecuted at the Ea&s;t ward. There were Two Women, of our Friends, cruel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y Scourged there.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mini&s;ter.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e, you refer to a Story, publi&s;hed by one <HI>George Bi&s;hop,</HI> a Quaker: He
<PB N="181" REF="91"> Complains bitterly, of the <HI>New England Per&s;ecu|tion,</HI> becau&s;e there came Two Quaker women Stark Naked, into our Publick A&s;&s;emblies, and they were carried unto the Whipping po&s;t for it. This was in the Northern parts of the Country, as I have been told. The&s;e Baggages, I believe, were the per&s;ecuted women, you talk of!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Well, and what if they did appear Nak|ed, to &s;how the People the Nakedne&s;s of their Sins?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>For Shame, Sirs, let us have no more of This Talk.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Quaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Why did&s;t thou treat</HI> George Keith <HI>&s;o hardly?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Minister.</SPEAKER>
<P>He de&s;erved it, when I &s;o Treated him. And you <HI>Quakers,</HI> have &s;ince Treated him Ten Times wor&s;e than ever I did. You write whole Books of Railing again&s;t him. I never got him into <HI>Goals,</HI> and under <HI>Fines.</HI> I &s;hould have been Troubled at any that would have done &s;o. But <HI>you</HI> have done it. Therefore, I believe, 'tis be&s;t for you to leave that Subject.</P>
</SP>
<P>And &s;o after a few other &s;mall <HI>Pulls,</HI> the <HI>Saw</HI> &s;tood &s;till. The <HI>Conference</HI> ended.</P>
<P>There are Five or Six witne&s;&s;es, which I have to atte&s;t unto the Truth of this Relation, which I have here given, of a <HI>Conference,</HI> with a <HI>Quaker,</HI> which had all the <HI>Friends</HI> far and near <HI>wondering</HI> (as well as <HI>wandring) after him.</HI> And yet the&s;e <HI>Cretians</HI> boa&s;ted among their Friends, how much they had confounded the Mini&s;ter in this <HI>Con|ference.</HI></P>
<PB N="182" REF="92">
<P>All that I would pre&s;ume now to Commend unto tho&s;e <HI>Towns,</HI> which have &s;uch <HI>Quakers</HI> an|noying of them, is This <HI>Brethren,</HI> carry it <HI>well,</HI> even with all convenient <HI>Civility</HI> &amp; <HI>Humanity,</HI> towards this Poor Deluded People; while you Charge your <HI>Children</HI> and <HI>Servants,</HI> that they do not go unto their <HI>Meetings:</HI> and ca&s;t not your &s;elves al&s;o into <HI>Temptation,</HI> by needle&s;sly being <HI>There.</HI> But after all, yea, <HI>before all,</HI> make an Experi|ment, which the Good People at <HI>Lyn</HI> made a little while ago, with a Succe&s;s truly ob&s;ervable and memorable.</P>
<P>The <HI>Quakers</HI> made a more than ordinary De|&s;cent upon the Town of <HI>Lyn,</HI> and <HI>Quakeri&s;m</HI> &s;uddenly &s;pread there, at &s;uch a rate as to A|larum the Neighbourhood. The Pa&s;tor of the Church there, Indicted a Day, for <HI>Prayer with Fa&s;ting,</HI> to Implore the Help of Heaven again&s;t the unaccountable <HI>Enchantment;</HI> and the Good People pre&s;ented accordingly, on <HI>July</HI> 19 1694. their fervent Supplica<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ions, unto the Lord, that the <HI>Spiritual Plague</HI> might proceed no further. The Spiri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t gave a Re|markable Effect, unto this Holy Method of En|countring the Charms of <HI>Quakeri&s;m:</HI> It proved a Better method, than any Coercion of the Civil Magi&s;trate: <HI>Quakeri&s;m</HI> in <HI>Lyn</HI> received (as I am informed) a <HI>Death-Wound,</HI> from that very Day; The Number of <HI>Quakers</HI> in that place hath been &s;o far from <HI>Increa&s;ing,</HI> that I am
<PB N="183" REF="92"> told, it hath &s;ince rather <HI>Decrea&s;ed</HI> notably. Now let other Endangered Plantations; <HI>Go, and do likewi&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Quakers,</HI> are &s;uch Enemies, to the Holy <HI>Religion,</HI> which is the Life of <HI>New England,</HI> That you mu&s;t Excu&s;e my concern to have you For|tify'd again&s;t <HI>their</HI> Attempts al&s;o, while I am giving you an <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> of your <HI>other Enemies.</HI> What <HI>all</HI> of them would be at, methinks, was a little intimated by what <HI>One</HI> of them once De|clared. The <HI>Globe Tavern</HI> was near our Publick and Spacious <HI>Meeting-Hou&s;e</HI> at <HI>Salem:</HI> and a No|ted <HI>Quaker</HI> there cau&s;ed a paper to be &s;et up on the Door of that Meeting-Hou&s;e, which had &s;uch Stuff as this written in it.</P>
<Q><L>Beware, Beware, and Enter not:</L>
<L>But rather to the Globe, and &s;pend a Pot.</L></Q>
<P>This is but like a pa&s;&s;age mentioned in the Life, of that Excellent man Mr. P. <HI>Henry,</HI> lately publi&s;hed. A Debauched Gentleman, in his Re|vels, Drinking and Swearing, at <HI>Malpas,</HI> was Re|proved by a Quaker, then in his Company. Why, &s;aid the Gentleman, I'le ask thee one Que&s;tion; Whether it is better for me to follow Drinking and Swearing, or to go and Hear <HI>Henry?</HI> The Quaker an&s;wered; <HI>Nay, of the Two, rather follow thy Drinking and Swearing.</HI> Behold, the Spirit of <HI>Quakeri&s;m!</HI> When I once compelled a <HI>Quaker</HI>
<PB N="184" REF="93"> to confe&s;s, that the Body of Je&s;us of <HI>Nazareth</HI> ro&s;e from the Grave, and went up into the Hea|vens, he begg'd me that I would not improve his confe&s;&s;ion, as if made on the behalf of all his Friends. And another of them, as, I hear, pub|lickly <HI>Held Forth</HI> by one of his late <HI>Stercorations,</HI> That the <HI>Husks</HI> of the <HI>Swine,</HI> on which the <HI>Pro|digal</HI> fed in the <HI>Parable,</HI> were, The <HI>Bread</HI> and <HI>Wine,</HI> in that which People call, <HI>The Sacrament.</HI></P>
<P>But what will become of tho&s;e Forlorn Villages, that &s;hall Re&s;ign them&s;elves to the conduct of that <HI>Light within;</HI> which our Sa|cred Scriptures indeed never expre&s;ly mention but once or twice, and then call it, <HI>Real Dark|ne&s;s;</HI> and which may lead men to all this wick|edne&s;s? There was among the <HI>Mahometans</HI> in the Ea&s;tern parts of the World, a Sect called <HI>Bateni&s;ts,</HI> from the Arabic, <HI>Baten,</HI> which &s;ig|nifies <HI>within:</HI>) who were Enthu&s;ia&s;ts that fol|lowed, <HI>The Light within,</HI> like our <HI>Quakers;</HI> and on this principle, they did &s;uch Numberle&s;s Vil|lanies, that the World was not able to bear them. None of all their Diabolical <HI>Raveries</HI> which I know I am now pulling on my &s;elf, and which I value no more, than if they came from the <HI>Pouliats</HI> of <HI>Malabar,</HI> &s;hall frighten me from &s;olliciting your <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> Cares &amp; Prayers, That you be not over-run with Engli&s;h <HI>Bateni&s;ts.</HI> And I mu&s;t &s;ollicitou&s;ly make the Ob&s;ervation, That although &s;uch a Number of <HI>Quakers</HI> in our
<PB N="185" REF="93"> Nation, be a dreadful <HI>Judgment</HI> of God upon men, &s;miting them with <HI>Spiritual Plagues</HI> for their Unfruitfulne&s;s and Unthankfulne&s;s under the Go&s;pel; neverthele&s;s, of a &s;pecial <HI>Favour</HI> of God, that the Number of <HI>Quakers</HI> is no Greater; for if they &s;hould multiply, not only would <HI>Chri&s;tianity</HI> be utterly Extingui&s;hed, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut <HI>Humanity</HI> it &s;elf Exterminated. It is well known, That when a <HI>Quaker</HI> had Stollen an <HI>Hour-gla&s;s,</HI> their <HI>Mahomet, George Fox</HI> of whom <HI>Sol. Eccles,</HI> in a Sheet call'd, <HI>The Quakers Challenge,</HI> pag. 6. &s;aies, <HI>He was the Christ,</HI>) thus vindicated it [<HI>Great My&s;t.</HI> pag. 77.] <HI>As for any being moved of the Lord, to take away your Hour-gla&s;s from you, by the Eternal Power it is owned.</HI> Reader, Do&s;t not thou even <HI>Tremble</HI> to think, what a <HI>Dark Land,</HI> we &s;hould have, if it &s;hould ever be fill'd with the&s;e pretended followers of the <HI>Light;</HI> who wear the Name of <HI>Tremblers?</HI> In Truth, I know not unto what better one might com|pare them, than unto the <HI>Macheveliers</HI> growing upon St. <HI>Lucia;</HI> Trees which bear Apples of &s;uch an Odour and Colour as invites people to Eat thereof; but it is horribly Dangerous to do &s;o; for there is no Antidote that can &s;ecure a man from &s;peedy Death, who hath once ta&s;ted of them. The <HI>Leaf</HI> of the Trees, makes an Ulcer on any place touched with it; the <HI>Dew</HI> that falls from them fetches off the Skin; the very <HI>Shadow</HI> &s;wells a man, &s;o as to kill him, if he be not &s;peedily helped.</P>
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<DIV2 N="30" TYPE="article">
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<HEAD><HI>ARTICLE XXX.</HI> Things to Come.</HEAD>
<P>FRom <HI>Relating</HI> of <HI>Things past,</HI> it would no doubt, be very Acceptable to the Reader if we could pa&s;s to <HI>Foretelling</HI> of <HI>Things to come</HI> Our <HI>Curio&s;ity</HI> in this point may ea&s;ily come to a, Degree <HI>Culpable,</HI> and <HI>Criminal.</HI> We mu&s;t be Humbly content, with what the <HI>God</HI> in who&s;e <HI>Hands</HI> are our <HI>Times,</HI> hath <HI>Reveal'd</HI> unto us.</P>
<P><HI>Two</HI> Things we will venture to In&s;ert.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> For <HI>our &s;elves,</HI> at home, Let us Remem|ber an awful Saying of our <HI>Goodwin,</HI> quoted by my Reverend Friend, Mr. <HI>Noyes,</HI> in his late Excellent Sermon at our Anniver&s;ary <HI>Election.</HI></P>
<P><Q REND="margQuotes">As you Look for <HI>Storms</HI> in <HI>Autumn,</HI> and <HI>Frosts</HI> in <HI>Winter,</HI> &s;o Expect <HI>Judgments,</HI> where the Go&s;pel hath been Preached; for the Quar|rel of the Covenant mu&s;t be Avenged.</Q></P>
<P>Secondly. For <HI>the Church</HI> abroad, I am far from de&s;erting, what was A&s;&s;erted, in the Sermon Preached at our Anniver&s;ary Election, in the year, 1696. <Q REND="margQuotes">The <HI>Tidings</HI> which I bring unto you, are, That there is a <HI>Revolution,</HI> and a <HI>Reformation,</HI> at the very Door, which will be va&s;tly more wonderful, than any of the Deliverances yet &s;een by the Church of God, from the Beginning of the World. I do
<PB N="187" REF="94"> not &s;ay, That the <HI>Next year</HI> will bring on this <HI>Happy Period:</HI> but this I do &s;ay, The Bigger part of this A&s;&s;embly, may, in the cour&s;e of Nature, Live to &s;ee it. The&s;e Things will come on, with horrible Commotions, and Concu&s;&s;ions, and Confu&s;ions: The mighty Angels of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, will make their De&s;cent, and &s;et the World a <HI>Trembling</HI> at the Approaches of their Almighty Lord: They will <HI>Shake</HI> Nations, and <HI>Shake</HI> Church|es, and <HI>Shake</HI> mighty Kingdoms, and <HI>Shake once more, not Earth only, but Heaven al&s;o.</HI></Q></P>
<P>Unto the&s;e <HI>Two</HI> Things, my Reader will not mi&s;improve it, I hope, if I add a <HI>Third,</HI> lately fallen into my Hands; and never yet &s;o Expo|&s;ed unto the Publick.</P>
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<HEAD>A Wonderful Matter Inconte&s;tably Demon&s;trated, and much De&s;ired by &s;ome Good men, to be in this place Communicated.</HEAD>
<Q REND="margQuotes"><P>MR. <HI>John Sadler,</HI> a very Learned and a very Pious man, and a mo&s;t Exempla|ry Chri&s;tian, Lay Sick in his Bed, at his Man|nor, of <HI>Warmwell</HI> in <HI>Dor&s;et</HI>-Shire: In the year, 1663. In the Time of his Illne&s;s, he was vi&s;ited by Mr. <HI>Cuthbert Bound,</HI> the Mini&s;ter of <HI>Warm|well</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Sadler</HI> then de&s;ired his man, (one <HI>Tho|mas Gray,</HI>) to &s;ee that there &s;hould be no bo|dy
<PB N="188" REF="95"> el&s;e in the Room, and Lock the <HI>Door,</HI> and give him the <HI>Key.</HI></P>
<P>He then Sat up in his Bed, and asked Mr. <HI>Bound</HI> and the Attendent <HI>Gray;</HI> Whether the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Saw</HI> no body? and, whether they did no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>hear,</HI> what a per&s;on &s;aid, that &s;tood at the cor|ner of the Chamber? They Replied, <HI>No.</HI> H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> wondred at it, and &s;aid, <HI>The man &s;pake &s;o loud that the whole Pari&s;h might hear him.</HI></P>
<P>Hereupon, calling for a <HI>Pen</HI> and <HI>Ink,</HI> h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> wrote what was told him, and made <HI>Them</HI> le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> their Hands to it; For he told them, <HI>the ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> would not be gone, till he had &s;een that done.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Articles</HI> written down, were;</P>
<P N="1"><HI>I.</HI> That there would, after &s;o many months be a <HI>Plague</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> whereof &s;o many woul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Dye:[Naming the Number.]</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> That the greate&s;t part of the <HI>City</HI> woul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> be <HI>Burnt,</HI> and <HI>Pauls,</HI> he particularly &s;how'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> him, Tumbled down into Ruines, as if Beate<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> down with Great Guns.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> That there would be <HI>Three&mdash;So<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Hight<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> between the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and the <HI>Dutch.</HI></P>
<P N="4"><HI>IV.</HI> That there would appear <HI>Three Blazi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Stars;</HI> the La&s;t of which, would be terrible t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> behold. [He &s;aid, the man &s;how'd him th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Star.</HI>]</P>
<P N="5"><HI>V.</HI> That afterwards, there would come <HI>Thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;mall Ships,</HI> to Land in the We&s;t of <HI>Weymout<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> which would put all <HI>England</HI> in an uproar, b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> it would come to nothing.</P>
<P N="6"><PB N="189" REF="95"><HI>VI.</HI> That in the year 1688. there would come to pa&s;s &s;uch a Thing in the <HI>Kingdom</HI> as all the world would take notice of.</P>
<P N="7"><HI>VII.</HI> That after <HI>this,</HI> and <HI>after &s;ome further Di&s;turbance,</HI> there would be <HI>Happy Times:</HI> And a <HI>Wonderful Thing</HI> would come to pa&s;s, which he was not now to Declare.</P>
<P N="8"><HI>VIII.</HI> That <HI>he,</HI> and his man <HI>(Gray)</HI> &s;hould <HI>Dye,</HI> before the Accompli&s;hment of the&s;e things; but Mr. <HI>Bound</HI> &s;hould Live to &s;ee it.</P>
<P N="9"><HI>IX.</HI> For the confirmation of the whole, the man thus appearing, told him, That he &s;hould be <HI>well</HI> the next Day; and there would come <HI>There men</HI> to vi&s;it him, One from <HI>Ireland,</HI> One from <HI>Guern&s;ey,</HI> and his Brother <HI>Bingham.</HI></P>
<P>Accordingly, The Day following Mr. <HI>Sad|ler</HI> went abroad: And this Day, there acci|dentally met at his Hou&s;e, and &s;o Dined with him, fir&s;t, the Lord <HI>Steel,</HI> who had been Lord Chancellour of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and now returning from thence, in his way to <HI>Lon|don,</HI> came to &s;ee Mr. <HI>Sadler:</HI> Secondly, Mon|&s;ieur <HI>de la Mar&s;h,</HI> a French Mini&s;ter from <HI>Guern&s;ey,</HI> and La&s;tly, his Brother <HI>Bingham.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Bound,</HI> and <HI>Gray,</HI> within Three Days after this, made <HI>Affidavit</HI> of it, before Colo|nel <HI>Giles Strangewayes,</HI> and Colonel <HI>Cocker,</HI> who is yet alive.</P>
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<P>Mr. <HI>Daniel Sadler,</HI> and Mr. <HI>John Sadler,</HI> the Sons of this old Mr. <HI>Sadler,</HI> very &s;erious and worthy Chri&s;tians, are at this Time Living in <HI>Rotterdam;</HI> one of them, is His Maje&s;ties <HI>Agent</HI> for Transportation.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Daniel Sadler,</HI> making his Applications to Mr <HI>Bound,</HI> for his Te&s;timony about this matter, the &s;aid Old Mr. <HI>Bound,</HI> in a Letter, dated, <HI>Warmwell, Aug.</HI> 30th. O. S. 1697. a&s;|&s;erts the matter at large <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto him; and Sub|&s;cribes, <HI>This I &s;hall testify before the King him&s;elf, if occa&s;ion be; when he comes into</HI> England.</P></Q>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Yours,</HI> Cuthbert Bound, <HI>yet Mini&s;ter of</HI> Warmwell.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q REND="margQuotes"><P>Mr. <HI>Daniel Sadler,</HI> ha's this Te&s;timony fur|ther fortifyed, by a Letter from One Mr. <HI>Ro|bert Loder,</HI> telling him, That he had met with an <HI>Old Copy</HI> of the Depo&s;itions afore&s;aid; which accordingly he tran&s;cribes for him; and &s;everal yet living in <HI>Dorche&s;ter</HI> affirm'd unto him, the Truth of the Story.</P>
<P>The Copies of the&s;e Letters are now in <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> in <HI>New-England.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>John Sadler,</HI> adds his Te&s;timony, That his Father told unto his Mother, and him&s;elf, That he had been told of Remarkable Things to come to pa&s;s, particularly, the <HI>Burning</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> and <HI>Pauls.</HI> But that they were not
<PB N="191" REF="96"> acquainted with all the matters, he foretold unto Mr. <HI>Bound,</HI> and <HI>Gray.</HI> Only he Remem|bers well, <HI>They Two</HI> were with him in his Chamber alone; and his Father went abroad within a day or two; and that, (according to the Sign he had given to them,) the <HI>Three Per&s;ons</HI> afore&s;aid vi&s;ited him. He adds, That his Father &s;poke of leaving in Writing, the things that had been Shown to him; and that a litle after, he &s;aw once a Thin Octavo Ma|nu&s;cript in his Fathers Study, which he be|lieved had tho&s;e things in it: but after that, he could never find it. This Te&s;timony, is Dated, in <HI>October.</HI> 1697.</P></Q>
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<P>A Worthy and a Godly Gentleman, at this Time, Living in <HI>Roterdam,</HI> and well-acquainted, with both Mr. <HI>Daniel,</HI> and Mr. <HI>John Sadler,</HI> Sends this to Mr. <HI>Increa&s;e Mather,</HI> in <HI>New-England;</HI> with a Letter Dated, 26. <HI>March.</HI> 1698.</P>
<P>REader, I am not Ignorant, that many <HI>Cheats</HI> and <HI>Shams,</HI> have been Impo&s;ed upon the World, under the Notion of Communications from the <HI>Invi&s;ible World;</HI> and, I hope, I am not becoming a <HI>Vi&s;ionary.</HI> But <HI>Fancies,</HI> and <HI>Juggles,</HI> have their Foundation laid in <HI>Realities:</HI> there would never have been <HI>Impo&s;tures</HI> of <HI>Apparitions,</HI> and of Communications from the <HI>Invi&s;ible World,</HI> if there never had been <HI>Really</HI> &s;ome &s;uch things, to be Counterfeited and Imitated. <HI>Wi&s;e men</HI>
<PB N="192" REF="97"> therefore, will count it a <HI>Folly</HI> in its <HI>Exaltation</HI> and <HI>Extremity,</HI> to D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ride all In&s;tances, of <HI>Strange Things</HI> arriving to us, from the <HI>Invi&s;ible World,</HI> becau&s;e that <HI>Some Things</HI> have been Delu&s;ions. No, 'tis a <HI>Wi&s;dom,</HI> that is plea&s;ing to God, and u&s;eful to the World, for a due Notice to be taken, of <HI>Rare Things;</HI> wherein we have In|conte&s;table <HI>Proofs,</HI> of an <HI>Invi&s;ible World,</HI> and of the Intere&s;t it hath in Humane Affayrs. The Narrative of Mr. <HI>Sadler,</HI> is advantaged with &s;uch Inconte&s;table <HI>Proofs,</HI> and contains in it &s;uch Notable pa&s;&s;ages, that, I believe, I do well to lay it before Serious Men; and, I believe, no Serious Men, will play the <HI>Buffoon</HI> upon it. By no means pretend I to pa&s;s any Judgment upon this <HI>Remarkable</HI> Narrative; by no means do I pre&s;ume to tell what I think it, any more than this, that it is <HI>Remarkable.</HI> Neverthele&s;s, for the Caution of unwary Readers, I will annex the words of an Excellent Writer upon <HI>Divine Providence.</HI></P>
<P><Q REND="margQuotes">Watch again&s;t an Unmortified <HI>Itch,</HI> after Ex|centrical, or Extraordinary Di&s;pen&s;ations of <HI>Providence. Luther</HI> &s;aid, <HI>The Martyrs, without the Apparition of Angels, being confirmed by the word of God alone, dyed for the Name of Chri&s;t; and why &s;hould not we acquie&s;ce?</HI> And he ob&s;erveth, how the <HI>Devil</HI> hath greatly deluded parties who have been gaping after <HI>Vi&s;ions.</HI></Q></P>
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<P>Nor will it be unprofitable, to Recite the words of another Author, whom I mu&s;t quote, as R. <HI>David Kimchi,</HI> did u&s;e to quote R. <HI>Jo&s;eph Kimchi,</HI> under the Title of, <HI>Adoni Avi.</HI></P>
<P><Q REND="margQuotes"><HI>Evil Angels</HI> do now appear, more often than <HI>Good Ones.</HI> 'Tis an unwarrantable, and a very Dangerous Thing, for men to wi&s;h, that they might &s;ee <HI>Angels,</HI> and conver&s;e with them. Some have done &s;o; and God hath been pro|voked with them for their Curio&s;ity and Pre|&s;umption, and hath permitted <HI>Devils</HI> to come unto them, whereby they have been Deceived and Undone.</Q></P>
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<HEAD>More Particular Progno&s;tications, upon the Future State of <HI>NEW-ENGLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BUt, Oh, my dear NEW-ENGLAND, Give one of thy Friends Leave, to utter the <HI>Fears</HI> of thy be&s;t Friends concerning thee; and con&s;ider, what Fearful cau&s;e there may be for thee to expect &s;ad <HI>Things to Come?</HI> If every <HI>Wi&s;e man</HI> be a <HI>Prophet,</HI> there are &s;ome yet in thee, that can <HI>Prophe&s;y. Praedictions,</HI> may be form'd out of the&s;e</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Rea&s;onable Expectations.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>I.</HI> Where <HI>Schools</HI> are not Vigorou&s;ly and Ho|nourably Encouraged, whole <HI>Colonies</HI> will &s;ink apace into a Degenerate and Contemptible Con|dition, and at la&s;t become horribly <HI>Barbarous:</HI>
<PB N="194" REF="98"> And the fir&s;t In&s;tance of their <HI>Barbarity</HI> will t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> that they will be undone for want of <HI>Men,</HI> but not &s;ee and own, what it was that <HI>undid</HI> them.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> Where Faithful Mini&s;ters, are <HI>Cheated</HI> and <HI>Grieved,</HI> by the <HI>Sacriledge</HI> of people that Rebel again&s;t the Expre&s;s Word of Chri&s;t, <HI>Let him that is Taught in the Word, Communicate unto him that Teacheth in all Good Things,</HI> the Righteous Judgments of God will <HI>Impoveri&s;h</HI> that people; The <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> will be made Lamentably <HI>Un&s;ucce&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ful</HI> unto the Souls of &s;uch a people; The Mini|&s;ters will either be fetch'd away to <HI>Heaven,</HI> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> have their Mini&s;try made wofully In&s;ipid by their Encumbrances on <HI>Earth.</HI></P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> Where the <HI>Pa&s;tors</HI> of Churches in a Vici|nity, de&s;pi&s;e or neglect <HI>Formed A&s;&s;ociations</HI> for mutual A&s;&s;i&s;tence in their Evangelical Services, <HI>Wo to him that is alone.</HI> 'Tis a &s;ign, either that &s;ome of the <HI>Pa&s;tors</HI> want <HI>Love</HI> to one another, or that others may be con&s;cious to &s;ome <HI>Fault,</HI> which may di&s;po&s;e them to avoid In&s;pection; but fatal to the <HI>Churches</HI> will be the Tendency of either.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>IV.</HI> Where <HI>Churches,</HI> have &s;ome Hundreds o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Souls under their <HI>Di&s;cipline;</HI> but the &s;ingle <HI>Pa+&s;tors,</HI> are not &s;trengthened, with <HI>Con&s;i&s;tories</HI> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Elders,</HI> or, an Agreeable Number of wi&s;e and good and grave men cho&s;en to join with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Pa&s;tor,</HI> as their <HI>Prae&s;ident,</HI> in that part of <HI>hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Work, which concerns the <HI>Well Ruling</HI> of the
<PB N="195" REF="98"> <HI>Flock,</HI> there <HI>Di&s;cipline</HI> will by Degrees be utterly Lo&s;t; The <HI>Gro&s;&s;e&s;t Offenders,</HI> will by degrees, and thro' parties, be &s;carce to be dealt withal.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>V.</HI> Where <HI>Pa&s;tors,</HI> do not Quicken Orderly <HI>Private Meetings</HI> of both Elder and Younger Chri&s;tians, for Exerci&s;es of Religion, in their Neighbourhood, the Power of <HI>Religion</HI> will ob&s;ervably Decay, among tho&s;e Chri&s;tians; the <HI>Seed &s;own</HI> in the <HI>Publick,</HI> will not &s;o much pro&s;per, for want of being <HI>watered in private:</HI> And when the <HI>Pa&s;tor</HI> &s;hall fall &s;ick, there will not be &s;o much as one company of Chri&s;tians in all his <HI>Flock,</HI> that can come together, to pray for his Life.</P>
<P N="6"><HI>VI.</HI> Where <HI>Churches</HI> profe&s;&s;ing a Great <HI>Reformation,</HI> &s;hall in their <HI>Con&s;titution</HI> cea&s;e to <HI>Re|pre&s;ent</HI> unto the <HI>World,</HI> the <HI>Holine&s;s</HI> of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and of His <HI>Heavenly Kingdom;</HI> they will become Loath&s;ome to that <HI>Holy Lord;</HI> their <HI>Glory</HI> is gone, and their <HI>Defence</HI> goes with it: the dreadful Wrath of Heaven, will A&s;ton|i&s;h the <HI>World,</HI> with the Things which it will do unto them.</P>
<P N="7"><HI>VII.</HI> Where <HI>Churches</HI> are Loth to give unto <HI>Councils</HI> regularly upon <HI>Complaints</HI> Enquiring in|to their <HI>Administrations,</HI> an Account thereof, 'tis much to be &s;u&s;pected, that they are Char+geable with <HI>Male-Admini&s;trations;</HI> and if the Advice of Regular <HI>Councils</HI> come once to be trod under foot, by any <HI>Particular Churches,</HI> all
<PB N="196" REF="99"> &s;erious men will be afraid of joining to &s;uch <HI>Unaccountable Societies.</HI></P>
<P N="8"><HI>VIII.</HI> Where a mighty Body of people in a Country, are violently &s;et upon running down the ancient <HI>Church State</HI> in that Country, and are violent for the Hedge about the <HI>Communion</HI> at the <HI>Lords-Table</HI> to be broken down, and for tho&s;e who are not Admitted unto the <HI>Communi|on,</HI> to &s;tand on equal Terms in all <HI>Votes</HI> with them that are; the <HI>Churches</HI> there are not far from a tremendous Convul&s;ion, and they had need u&s;e a marvellous <HI>Temper</HI> of Re&s;olution with Circum&s;pection to keep it off.</P>
<P N="9"><HI>IX.</HI> Where <HI>Churches</HI> are <HI>bent upon Back&s;liding,</HI> and carried away with a &s;trong Spirit of <HI>Apo|&s;ta&s;y,</HI> whatever Mini&s;ter &s;hall &s;et him&s;elf to with&s;tand their <HI>Evil Bents,</HI> will pull upon him|&s;elf an inexpre&s;&s;ible contempt and hatred; Be his merits never &s;o <HI>Great,</HI> a Thou&s;and Arts will be u&s;ed for to make him <HI>Little;</HI> He had need be a man of <HI>Great Faith</HI> and <HI>Great Prayer;</HI> But God will at length <HI>Honour</HI> &s;uch a man, with wonderful Recompences.</P>
<P N="10"><HI>X.</HI> Where a <HI>Fountain</HI> &s;hall become <HI>Corrupt,</HI> there the <HI>Streams</HI> will no longer <HI>Make Glad the City of God.</HI></P>
<P N="11"><HI>XI.</HI> The <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, we have with much expence, lately &s;ent unto &s;everal of our <HI>Southern Plantations:</HI> If it be Rejected, there are Terrible Things to come upon them;
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'twere better to have Lived in <HI>Sodom,</HI> than in one of tho&s;e <HI>Plantations.</HI></P>
<P N="12"><HI>XII.</HI> God prepare our dear Brethren, in <HI>Con|nectecut,</HI> for certain <HI>Changes</HI> that are Impending over them.</P>
<P>Finally; There was a Town called, <HI>Amyciae,</HI> which was Ruined by <HI>Silence.</HI> The Rulers, becau&s;e there had been &s;ome fal&s;e Alarms, forbad all people under pain of Death to &s;peak of any <HI>Enemies</HI> approaching them: So, when the <HI>Enemies</HI> came indeed, no man dur&s;t &s;peak of it, and the Town was Lo&s;t. <HI>Corruptions</HI> will grow upon the Land; and they will gain by <HI>Silence:</HI> 'Twill be &s;o In|vidious to do it, No man will dare to &s;peak of the <HI>Corruptions;</HI> and the Fate of <HI>Amyc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> will come upon the Land.</P>
<P>Reader, I call'd the&s;e things <HI>Prophecy;</HI> But, I wi&s;h, I be not all this while Wri|ting <HI>Hi&s;tory.</HI></P>
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<P>Now, if any Di&s;cerning per&s;ons, apprehend any <HI>Dangers</HI> to Impend over <HI>New-England,</HI> from any of the <HI>Symptomes</HI> mentioned, it is to be ho|ped, they will Employ their be&s;t Thoughts, how to Anticipate tho&s;e <HI>Dangers.</HI> And where|as, 'tis the &s;en&s;e of all men, who di&s;cern any thing, that it is in vain to hope for any Good, until a <HI>Spirit of Grace,</HI> be poured out from Hea|ven,
<PB N="198" REF="100"> to di&s;po&s;e men unto it, I beg them to con|&s;ider, whether the only way to obtain that <HI>Spi|rit of Grace,</HI> be not, Humbly to <HI>Ask</HI> it, by <HI>Prayer</HI> with <HI>Fa&s;ting</HI> before the God of Heaven.</P>
<P>It was therefore an Article in an Advice agreed, by &s;ome of the principal Mini&s;ters in this <HI>Province;</HI> and with the mention of that Advice, (which doubtle&s;s, all but the <HI>Sleeping</HI> will follow) I'l conclude; <Q REND="margQuotes">Solemn Days of <HI>Prayer</HI> with <HI>Fa&s;ting,</HI> celebrated in our <HI>Church|es,</HI> to Implore the Grace of God, for the Ri&s;ing Generation, would probably be of ble&s;&s;ed con&s;equence, for the Turning of our Young people, unto the God of our Fa|thers. The more there is this way a&s;cribed unto <HI>Grace,</HI> the more the Grace of God is like to be communicated; and there is in this way, a natural and a plentiful Tenden|cy to Awaken our Unconverted Youth, unto a &s;en&s;e of their Everla&s;ting Intere&s;ts: Which were it generally accompli&s;hed, a Remarkable <HI>Reformation</HI> where therein Ef|fected.</Q></P>
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<P><HI>Ob&s;ervable Things.</HI></P>
<P>THE HISTORY OF Ten Years Rolled away under the great Calamities of A WAR, WITH <HI>Indian-Salvages:</HI> Repeated and Improved, in a SERMON, at <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI>-Lecture. 27<HI>d.</HI> 7<HI>m.</HI> 1698.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Judg. VI. 3, 5, 6.</HI></BIBL>
<P>The Children of the EAST came up again&s;t them; and they Entred into the Land, to Destroy it; and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> was greatly Impoveri&s;hed.</P></Q>
<P><HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> Printed for <HI>Samuel Phillips,</HI> at the Brick Shop. 1699.</P>
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<HEAD>PREFACE.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> were Engaged in a WAR, they made choice of a <HI>Priest</HI> among them, to Serve &s;ome of their greate&s;t Occa&s;ions in it, and after a <HI>Sacred Unction</HI> be&s;tow'd upon him, we are told by <HI>Maimonides,</HI> he was call'd <HI>Ma&s;huach Milchamah,</HI> that is to &s;ay, <HI>Unctus Belli;</HI> which was as much as to &s;ay, <HI>The Prie&s;t of the War.</HI></P>
<P>To bring unto a People profitable Advices &amp; Reflections upon a WAR, wherein they are En|gaged, and &s;ound the <HI>Silver Trumpet,</HI> of the Go&s;|pel, with agreeable Notes unto them in it, is to do in &s;ome &s;ort, the Office of the <HI>Ma&s;huach Mil|chamah;</HI> and this Office the En&s;uing Di&s;cour&s;e pre&s;umes to do, with Endeavours that the Voice of Heaven by the <HI>Trumpet</HI> of our late <HI>War,</HI> may he heard giving a <HI>certain Sound,</HI> in the&s;e <HI>Echo's</HI> of it.</P>
<P>The Hi&s;tory of a long <HI>War,</HI> hath, with all po&s;|&s;ible care of <HI>Truth,</HI> been given you. The Author Earne&s;tly prayes, that if the lea&s;t material <HI>Mi&s;take</HI> have happened in the Hi&s;tory, <HI>He</HI> may be Ad|vi&s;ed, &amp; <HI>It</HI> may be corrected. The Noi&s;e that may be made, by a few Sordid People, here &amp; there, in a Room <HI>Tophetized</HI> with Smoke, and Rhum, and Spittle, and Malice, and <HI>Lyes,</HI> crying out concerning the mo&s;t Con&s;cientious E&s;&s;ayes, to pre&s;erve <HI>Memorable Truths, They are a parcel of Lies!</HI> He values not. But he now tenders to the Acceptance of the more <HI>Civilized Readers,</HI> an Improvement of <HI>Memorable Truths,</HI> which it was <HI>His</HI> Duty to <HI>make,</HI> &amp; it will be <HI>Theirs</HI> to <HI>mind.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>THE REMARKEABLES of a long WAR, Collected and Improved. <HI>Boston</HI>-Lecture, 27<HI>d.</HI> 7<HI>m.</HI> 1698.</HEAD>
<P>IF a <HI>Book</HI> of &s;ome Con&s;equence, be laid open before one that cannot <HI>Read,</HI> he may Look, and Gaze upon it; but unto what purpo&s;e, as long as he cannot un|der&s;tand it? This very Compari&s;on, is by the Great <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> well applyed unto, The <HI>Judgments</HI> of God. And I will therefore &s;o far Improve the Compari&s;on, as to ob&s;erve, That the <HI>Judgments</HI> of God, under which we have been Langui&s;hing for <HI>Ten years</HI> together, are a &s;ort of a <HI>Book</HI> put into our Hands; a <HI>Book</HI> indeed all writ|ten in <HI>Blood;</HI> a <HI>Book</HI> yet full of <HI>Divine Le&s;&s;ons</HI> for us. But can every man Read this Terrible
<PB N="202" REF="102"> <HI>Books?</HI> No, Methinks, I &s;ee the <HI>Book</HI> managed like the <HI>Book</HI> brought unto the Ble&s;&s;ed Prophet of old, in I&s;a. 29.12. <HI>The Book is delivered unto him that is not Learned, Saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he &s;aith, I am not Learned.</HI> It will cer|tainly be a work, well becoming a <HI>Mini&s;ter</HI> of the Go&s;pel, and every Serious <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> will be glad of &s;eeing the Work done; To take this <HI>Book,</HI> and help you, as well as we can to <HI>Spell</HI> the <HI>Di|vine Le&s;&s;ons</HI> contained in it</P>
<P><HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> Let us now do a work, for which the Great God hath given us, that Warrant, and that Command, in</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>PSAL. CVII. 43.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Who is Wi&s;e, and will ob&s;erve the&s;e Things?</P></Q>
<P>THe various and marvellous Di&s;pen&s;ations of the Divine Providence, towards the Chil|dren of men, are in this Elegant <HI>P&s;alm</HI> admirably &s;et before us. Among tho&s;e Di&s;pen&s;ations, there is a particular mark &s;et upon this, That the God of Heaven <HI>Turns a Fruitful Land into Barrenne&s;s, for the Wickedne&s;s of them which dwell therein;</HI> &amp; tho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">gh men have <HI>Sown Fields there and have multiplied greatly, yet they are again Dimini&s;hed, &amp; brought Low through Oppre&s;&s;ion, Affliction, and Sor|row.</HI> Of &s;uch Di&s;pen&s;ations, is this pa&s;&s;age to be under&s;tood, as a Quae&s;tion, <HI>Who is wi&s;e, and will ob&s;erve the&s;e things?</HI> But if you will rather take it
<PB N="203" REF="102"> as a Sentence, it &s;till comes to the &s;ame &s;en&s;e, <HI>Who|&s;e is wi&s;e, will o&s;erve the&s;e Things.</HI> And the French Ver&s;ion very Expre&s;&s;ively intimates the <HI>De&s;ign,</HI> as well as the <HI>Event</HI> of this <HI>Ob&s;ervation; That &s;o they may con&s;ider the Favours of the Lord.</HI> No Le&s;s than Ten years have Rolled away, &s;ince we have been plunged into the Di&s;tre&s;&s;es of a WAR, with a Barbarous Enemy. In this WAR, we have &s;een the <HI>Fruitful Land</HI> of almo&s;t one whole Province, and another whole County <HI>turned into Barrenne&s;s;</HI> doubtle&s;s, not without provocations of <HI>Wickedne&s;s in them, who dwelt therein;</HI> Men had <HI>Sown Fields</HI> there along the Shore in Settle|ments for an Hundred miles together, and had <HI>Multiplied Greatly</HI> into a Clu&s;ter of <HI>Towns</HI> (be|&s;ides Le&s;&s;er <HI>Villages,</HI>) that might Challenge the Name of a, <HI>Decapolis;</HI> but in this WAR, we have &s;een them <HI>Dimini&s;hed again and brought Low, through Oppre&s;&s;ion, Affliction, and Sorrow.</HI> I am to Lead you this day thro' a Spacious Country, which has been on many Accounts, the mo&s;t Charming part of <HI>New-England;</HI> and I mu&s;t herewithal &s;ay, <HI>Come, Behold the works of the Lord, what De&s;olations He has made in that Land.</HI> Syrs, 'Tis time for us, to <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e Things;</HI> and this, not with a meer <HI>Athenian,</HI> but with a more <HI>profitable</HI> Ob&s;ervation. I mu&s;t not be Di&s;couraged from this Holy Service, by the vain Scoffs of tho&s;e that <HI>Bla&s;pheme</HI> all Attempts to <HI>Con&s;ider the Wondrous Works of God,</HI> as if it
<PB N="204" REF="103"> were nothing but a <HI>Telling of News in the Pulpit.</HI> The Bigge&s;t part of the Holy Bible, which is but a Relation of &s;uch <HI>Wondrous Works,</HI> would be Scoffed by &s;uch profane men, if they might not thereby become Obnoxius. No: If <HI>Who&s;o is wi&s;e, will ob&s;erve the&s;e things;</HI> Then let no man call it Folly to make the <HI>Ob&s;ervation.</HI> A Long WAR, is the <HI>Text,</HI> which I am now to in&s;i&s;t upon: And, if we would approve our &s;elves <HI>Wi&s;e,</HI> after all the <HI>Stripes,</HI> that have in this WAR been given us, the&s;e things will occur to our <HI>Ob&s;ervation</HI> in it.</P>
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<P><HI>I.</HI> In the WAR that hath been upon us, <HI>Who&s;o is Wi&s;e, may ob&s;erve</HI> the Con&s;equence of Entertaining the <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and Obtaining and Mentaining the <HI>Ordinances</HI> of that Glorious Go&s;pel. The <HI>Gada|rens</HI> of old, were loath to have any thing of CHRIST in their <HI>Coa&s;t:</HI> And anon comes a <HI>Roman War</HI> which di&s;tre&s;s'd all the Land: But the woful Town of <HI>Gadara</HI> was the very fir&s;t place be&s;ieged in that <HI>War,</HI> and Sad Things were done unto it. Alas, How little of an <HI>Evangeli|cal Church-State,</HI> was there to be &s;een among all our <HI>Eastern Settlements!</HI> It hath been for the want of this, that the Judgments of God, have more than once forbidden them to be called <HI>Settlements.</HI> The Towns were generally with|out <HI>Preachers</HI> of CHRIST, and much more ge|nerally
<PB N="205" REF="103"> without <HI>Churches</HI> of CHRIST, for to Irradiate 'em: Yea, not one of the Towns, that are utterly broken up, had any <HI>Minister</HI> in it, for a long while before their Final Darkne&s;s came upon them. Such a <HI>Way of Living</HI> did content many of them, that it were horrible to Tell, what Ignorance of CHRIST they were thereby &s;unk into. I would never have told you, That &s;ome young men, twenty years old, in this Land, never &s;o much as <HI>once</HI> heard the Name of CHRIST, in all their Lives, if I did not think, that the God of Heaven required us, all to mourn before Him, for &s;uch an <HI>Horrible Thing in the Land.</HI> Indeed the Strange Di&s;a&s;t|ers which attended the Fir&s;t E&s;&s;ayes, to Settle that Good Country, made many people, Ima|gine the <HI>Indian Sorcerers</HI> had Enchanted the Ground &s;o that no Engli&s;h could Thrive on &s;uch an Enchanted Soyl. But had they carried the <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t with them, doubtle&s;s they had confuted that vain Imagina|tion; all the <HI>Spells</HI> of Hell would have been in&s;ignificant; there would not have prevailed any <HI>Enchantment</HI> again&s;t a <HI>Gods-Spel</HI> which we have in our <HI>Go&s;pel.</HI> The <HI>Original De&s;ign</HI> of NEW-ENGLAND, was to Settle <HI>Congregations,</HI> wherein the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, &s;hould be known and &s;erv'd according to His <HI>Go&s;pel;</HI> and In&s;truct <HI>Families,</HI> that &s;hould be the Nur&s;eries of tho&s;e Congregations. The Plantations of the Ea&s;t,
<PB N="206" REF="104"> had little of this <HI>Illustrious De&s;ign</HI> in their Eye; The Enjoyments of <HI>Gadarens</HI> did &s;eem too much to Satisfy too many of them. <HI>For This cau&s;e,</HI> we may Believe it is, that our Lord JESUS CHRIST looking down from Heaven upon the&s;e <HI>Unchri&s;ti|an Undertakings,</HI> Thunder-&s;truck them with His Indignation: <HI>He &s;aw the Fooli&s;h taking Root, but &s;uddenly He Cur&s;ed their Habitation.</HI> When &s;ome of our <HI>Eastern People</HI> have been Pining away un|der the Fatigues of their <HI>Captivity</HI> among the <HI>In|dians,</HI> who had Stript them of all they had, <HI>Then</HI> they cryed out, <HI>Now, Now the Lord is puni&s;hing of us, for our Leaving of His Ordinances, and removing to a place of no Go&s;pel for larger Accommodations in the World, and Expo&s;ing our Children to be bred up like the very Indians, into who&s;e Hands we are fallen!</HI> That which Invites one to think, it may be <HI>For this Cau&s;e,</HI> is the Singular <HI>Distinction</HI> and <HI>Protection,</HI> which the CHURCHES of our Lord, have Enjoyed, throughout the whole progre&s;s of our Calamity. No places that have had CHURCHES gathered in them, have all this while been broken up, however &s;ome of them have had much <HI>Bread of Adver&s;ity, and Water of Affliction.</HI> The Enemy that have come in upon our Land <HI>Like a Flood,</HI> carried all before them as an <HI>Irre&s;i&s;tible Torrent,</HI> until they came to places that have CHURCHES as it were to <HI>Garri&s;on</HI> them. There the Almighty Lord hath check'd the <HI>Proud Waves,</HI> and &s;aid, <HI>Hitherto ye &s;hall come,
<PB N="207" REF="104"> and no further!</HI> But here let me add a very ob|&s;ervable Thing: The Lord had &s;ome of His <HI>Elect</HI> among our <HI>Ea&s;tern People;</HI> but He ha's brought tho&s;e <HI>Elect Home</HI> unto Him&s;elf, by burn|ing them out of their <HI>Homes</HI> and Habitations. The <HI>Indians</HI> have driven 'em hither, and here they have met with the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t, and been effectually Called unto the Lord, and Joyn|ed unto our Churches, and Ble&s;&s;ed the Name of God for bringing them unto the&s;e Churches. <HI>Perii&s;&s;ent ni&s;i Perii&s;&s;ent!</HI> Now, <HI>Who&s;o is Wi&s;e, and will ob&s;erve the&s;e things,</HI> cannot but wi&s;h, That the <HI>Folly</HI> of Erecting Plantations, without the wor&s;hip of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, may be no more committed among us. It was whole|&s;ome Coun&s;il, Given, and u&s;ually Taken, in the Beginning of <HI>New-England;</HI> <Q REND="margQuotes">Let Chri&s;tians no where &s;it down without Good Mini&s;ters, but let them rather tarry where they are, as <HI>Ezra</HI> tarryed by the River <HI>Ahava,</HI> till he had got &s;ome <HI>Levites</HI> to go with them.</Q> And it was even Then ob&s;erved, That places which made Begin|nings any long while without Mini&s;ters, were with mi&s;erable <HI>Un&s;ettlements</HI> broken all to pieces. I &s;up|po&s;e, our Ea&s;tern Country, will &s;hortly again be peopled: But let the people which intend there to Settle them&s;elves, in the Fear of God Remem|ber this Admonition; Don't venture to form <HI>Towns</HI> without the <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> in them any more. If the Lamentable Experience which you have
<PB N="208" REF="105"> more than once had, of a Bla&s;t from Heaven upon Enterprizes to Live without the Go&s;pel of the Son of God, will not in&s;pire you with more of Wi&s;dom for the future, I will foretel your Fate, in tho&s;e awful words, P&s;al. 28.5. <HI>Becau&s;e they regard not the Works of the Lord, nor the O|peration of His Hands, He &s;hall de&s;troy them, and not Build them up.</HI> Yea, But let all <HI>New-Eng|land</HI> at the &s;ame Time Learn, what the Wel|fare of the Ruine, of all, will Turn upon. The whole World was made for our <HI>Lord-Me&s;&s;iah,</HI> and the <HI>Cur&s;e</HI> of God will more or le&s;s plague the World, according to the Re|&s;pects, which that <HI>Second Adam,</HI> our <HI>Lord Me&s;|&s;iah</HI> finds in it. But <HI>New-England,</HI> is by a more Eminent Profe&s;&s;ion that <HI>Immanuels Land,</HI> Let the Intere&s;ts of the Chri&s;tian Religion in <HI>Reformed Churches,</HI> be pur&s;ued and pre&s;erved among us; Then, <HI>All will go well!</HI> Our Ac|knowledgment of our Lord JESUS CHRIST in CHURCHES, that &s;hall be &s;o ordered, as to Repre&s;ent Him, and His Kingdom, unto the World; This will be our <HI>Glory;</HI> and this <HI>Glory</HI> will be our <HI>Defence;</HI> or, as 'tis promi&s;ed, in I&s;a. 4.5. <HI>Upon all the Glory &s;hall be a Defence.</HI> But if once the <HI>Spirit of this World,</HI> Eat out the Spirit and Power of Religion, and the Order of our <HI>Churches,</HI> and mens value for a Room in the <HI>Churches,</HI> be lo&s;t, Then, write, <HI>Ichabod,</HI> up|on all our <HI>Glory;</HI> and let us expect, that our
<PB N="209" REF="105"> Holy Lord will <HI>Spue us out of His Mouth.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>II.</HI> In the WAR that hath been upon us <HI>who|&s;o is wi&s;e, may ob&s;erve,</HI> in the very <HI>In&s;truments</HI> of our Calamity, &s;hrow'd Intimations of the <HI>provo|king Evils,</HI> for which the Righteous God hath Cha&s;ti&s;ed us, by &s;uch <HI>Instruments.</HI></P>
<P>When the Mi&s;eries of the <HI>Sword</HI> are inflicted on a people, it becomes them to con&s;ider what <HI>Provocations</HI> they have given to the Almighty God, who <HI>makes peace, and creates Evil; for 'tis He, the Lord, who doth all the&s;e things.</HI> The <HI>Sword</HI> by which we have been &s;o grievou&s;ly hara&s;&s;ed, hath been in the Hands of God: and if our Father had not been very Angry, would He have taken a <HI>Sword</HI> into His Hands? We are Blind before Lightning, we are Deaf unto Thunder, if we do not &s;en&s;ibly perceive the <HI>Anger</HI> of God, in the Tremendous Rebukes that we have &s;uffered: And we are unaccountably, and inexcu&s;ably &s;tupid, if we do not Enquire, <HI>What means the Heat of this Anger?</HI> It was once the Commirration of God, in Ezek. 7.24, 27. <HI>I will bring the worst of the Heathen, and they &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;s their Hou&s;es, and the Hands of the people of the Land &s;hall be Troubled:</HI> Such <HI>Trouble</HI> hath come upon us, from the <HI>wor&s;t of the Heathen!</HI> But what was the cau&s;e of all? It follows, <HI>I will do unto them after their way, and I will judge them according to their De&s;erts, and they &s;hall know that
<PB N="210" REF="106"> I am the Lord.</HI> It is but &s;ea&s;onable for us now to Look back upon our own <HI>way,</HI> and &s;ee how much we have <HI>De&s;erved</HI> all this Vengeance, by going out of the <HI>way.</HI> Two per&s;ons in their Travels beholding the horrid Ruines of <HI>Germa|ny,</HI> one of them &s;aid, <HI>Hic fuit Hostilitas;</HI> Behold the Fruit of <HI>Ho&s;tility!</HI> his Friend an&s;wered, <HI>Hic fuit Iniquitas;</HI> Behold the Fruit of <HI>Iniquity!</HI> If you will Travel over our <HI>Ea&s;t Countrey,</HI> how fre|quent, how di&s;mal occa&s;ions will you &s;ee, to Sigh, <HI>See what has been done by Ho&s;tility!</HI> But there will be as many occa&s;ions for a &s;adder Sigh than that; Namely, <HI>See the &s;ad Effects of Iniquity!</HI> Now, in this Contemplation, I do not go to charge them that were once Inhabitants of the Now Ruined Plantations, with any <HI>Sins,</HI> but what are more or le&s;s to be found in all our Colonies. I ask no more from our Bre|thren who yet Survive the De&s;olations that have come upon their E&s;tates and Neighbours in tho&s;e Plantations, but that they join with the re&s;t of us all, in <HI>Searching and Trying of our ways,</HI> and in <HI>Judging of our &s;elves.</HI> For, alas, <HI>Every mouth mu&s;t be &s;top'd, and all the Land is become Guilty before God!</HI> Let us all then <HI>Enquire,</HI> What may have been tho&s;e <HI>provoking Evils,</HI> for which the <HI>Holy and Ble&s;&s;ed God,</HI> hath given the <HI>Sword</HI> a Commi&s;&s;ion &s;o dreadfully to devour us? But then, Let us be &s;ure <HI>to Enquire wi&s;ely concerning that matter.</HI> And here, I will not <HI>Enquire,</HI> whe|ther
<PB N="211" REF="106"> tho&s;e that went before us, might never be too forward in any <HI>Unju&s;tifyable Encroachments,</HI> to po&s;&s;e&s;s and command tho&s;e Lands, which have &s;ince proved &s;o Expen&s;ive unto us? <HI>Older men</HI> then I, are be&s;t able to manage that <HI>Enqui|ry,</HI> though I al&s;o have heard it made. But that whereupon I rather be&s;peak your Thoughts, is This: Will you plea&s;e to <HI>Enquire</HI> into the <HI>Pro|perties</HI> and <HI>Qualities,</HI> of our <HI>Adver&s;aries?</HI> 'Tis po&s;&s;ible, that in their <HI>Properties</HI> and <HI>Qualities,</HI> we may read &s;omething of tho&s;e <HI>Mi&s;carriages,</HI> for which our God, hath Rai&s;ed them up to be our Adver&s;aries. It hath been commonly &s;een, That when the people of God have &s;infully come to <HI>Imitate</HI> the <HI>Evil manners</HI> of <HI>other Nations,</HI> God hath made <HI>tho&s;e</HI> very Nations to be a &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;courge unto them. And the &s;en&s;e of This was that which long ago cau&s;ed many &s;en&s;ible per&s;ons, to foretel, which of the <HI>Neighbour Nations,</HI> would bring our dear <HI>England</HI> Low. Now, &s;ince the INDIANS have been made by our God. <HI>The Rod of His Anger,</HI> 'tis proper for us to <HI>Enquire,</HI> whether we have not in &s;ome In&s;tances too far Imitated the <HI>evil manners</HI> of the <HI>Indians?</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> are Infamous e&s;pecially for Three Scan|dalous Vices. Fir&s;t, They are <HI>Lyars</HI> of the fir&s;t magnitude; One cannot believe a word they &s;peak. Secondly, They are <HI>Sluggards</HI> to a proverb; they are for any way of Living rather than work. Thirdly, They are abominably
<PB N="212" REF="107"> Indulgent unto their <HI>Children;</HI> there is no <HI>Fami|ly Government</HI> among them. Will you now <HI>En|quire,</HI> Sirs, how far we have <HI>Indianized</HI> in every one, but e&s;pecially, the la&s;t of the&s;e <HI>Evil Manners?</HI> If we find the&s;e <HI>Indian-Vices</HI> to grow Epidemical among us, Oh! don't wonder, that our God hath been with <HI>Indian Hatchets</HI> cutting down the <HI>Tree,</HI> that brings forth <HI>Fruits</HI> thus di&s;agreeable to Him that Planted it.</P>
<P>Now, <HI>Who&s;o is wi&s;e, will Ob&s;erve the&s;e things.</HI> And yet the <HI>Ob&s;ervation</HI> may Extend it &s;elf a little further. Sometimes, the Soveraign God choo&s;es a Nation Remarkably laudable, for &s;ome <HI>Good Thing,</HI> to puni&s;h His own people, for the want of that Thing. Thus, when the <HI>Chri&s;tian Churches</HI> fell into <HI>Idolatry,</HI> God &s;ent the <HI>Mahome|tans</HI> upon them, to <HI>Torment</HI> them with one <HI>Wo</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ter another horribly; and the <HI>Mahometans</HI> are very Remarkable for this, That they are Great Haters of <HI>Idolatry,</HI> and wherever they come, they de&s;troy tho&s;e <HI>Idols, and works of mens Hands,</HI> which are Adored in the <HI>Antichri&s;tian Apo&s;tacy.</HI> Well, But can any <HI>Good Thing</HI> be reported of our <HI>Indian</HI> Invaders? Yes, there is one <HI>Good Thing</HI> which the <HI>French</HI> have taught them; There is <HI>Family-Prayer</HI> among them, a daily <HI>Family-Wor&s;hip</HI> upheld among them. I <HI>Fear, I Fear,</HI> this is more than can be &s;aid of many <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Suffe|rers, that have been annoy'd by tho&s;e <HI>Indian</HI>-In|vaders. It may be, the Wretched <HI>Indians</HI> have
<PB N="213" REF="107"> cut off multitudes of <HI>Families,</HI> to whom they might have &s;aid, <HI>The&s;e Families never Pray'd unto God once in a Month, and we have done it eve|ry Day!</HI> And many of our poor Folks, never heard any <HI>Family-Prayer</HI> in their Lives, till they were drag'd into the forlorn and howling <HI>Wig|wams,</HI> of tho&s;e wretched <HI>Salvages.</HI> I have hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d it &s;aid, That in a Town or it may be more than <HI>Seventy Families,</HI> there have not been <HI>Twice Se|ven Families,</HI> that have had any con&s;tant Invoca|tion of God in them. If it be &s;o, then hear the Voice of God in it, when He &s;ent tho&s;e Mon|&s;trous and Furious Barbarians, to burn down &s;uch <HI>Prayerle&s;s Hou&s;es:</HI> The Voice of Heaven in it, is, <HI>If Indians Will pray in their Families more than Engli&s;h, then let Indians de&s;troy tho&s;e Engli&s;h Fami|lies.</HI> It was once the direful Imprecation, in Jer. 10.25. <HI>Pour out thy Great Wrath upon the Heathen that know thee not, and upon the Families that call not on thy Name.</HI> Truly, God ha's u&s;ed a Sort of <HI>Heathen,</HI> to <HI>Pour out His Great Wrath upon Fa|milies,</HI> which in this one point, were wor&s;e than tho&s;e <HI>Heathen,</HI> that they <HI>did not call on His Name.</HI> For Gods Sake, be &s;o <HI>Wi&s;e</HI> as to <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things,</HI> and let <HI>Family Prayer,</HI> be no where neg|lected throughout the Land, le&s;t while God is puni&s;hing us by the <HI>Pagans,</HI> we become wor&s;e than <HI>Pagans.</HI> Let me faithfully and &s;olemnly ad|vi&s;e you, Sirs; A <HI>Prayerle&s;s Family</HI> is a <HI>Pagan Family.</HI> Do not now imagine, That it is only
<PB N="214" REF="108"> the more Strict and Severe Doctrine of a <HI>Non-Conformi&s;t</HI> that now Smites your Con&s;ciences; it is the Doctrine of a <HI>Chri&s;tian;</HI> and it may be t'will have the more Force upon &s;ome of you, if I tell you, that the late Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbu|ry,</HI> in a Book on that Subject, ha's this pa&s;&s;age; <HI>That Con&s;tant Family-Wor&s;hip is &s;o Nece&s;&s;ary to keep alive a &s;en&s;e of God and Religion, in the minds of men, that he &s;ees not, how any Family that Neglects it can in Rea&s;on be E&s;teemed a Family of Chri&s;tians, or indeed to have any Religion at all.</HI> I will add but this word unto all the re&s;t: If after this there be a <HI>Prayerle&s;s Family,</HI> among us, I would, if I could, Write upon their Door; <HI>Lord Have Mercy upon us;</HI> for there is a <HI>Plague</HI> in that <HI>Pagan Family.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>III.</HI> In the WAR that hath been upon us, <HI>Who&s;e is Wi&s;e, may ob&s;erve,</HI> That the very <HI>Objects,</HI> of our <HI>Sins,</HI> have been made the very <HI>Engines</HI> of our <HI>Plagues.</HI> It is a thing <HI>Extraordinarily Ob&s;erva|ble,</HI> though it ordinarily happens; That, <HI>In quo quis peccat, in eo punitur;</HI> Men are <HI>Plagu'd</HI> by tho&s;e very Things, with which they have <HI>Sinn'd.</HI> If an <HI>Eli</HI> omit his Duty towards his <HI>Children,</HI> it follows, in 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2.33. Tho&s;e very <HI>Children,</HI> &s;hall <HI>con&s;ume thine Eyes, and grieve thine Heart.</HI> I am very much mi&s;taken, if our <HI>Eyes</HI> have not been <HI>con|&s;umed,</HI> and if our <HI>Hearts</HI> not <HI>grieved,</HI> by tho&s;e, to whom we have omitted our Duty Exceeding|ly.
<PB N="215" REF="108"> The Grand crime of the <HI>Jews,</HI> was in re|lation to the <HI>Romans,</HI> and God made the <HI>Romans</HI> the De&s;troyers of the <HI>Jews.</HI> You will now de|mand of me, Whether I think, that we are chargeable, with any Crime, relating to the <HI>In|dians,</HI> which have been &s;o bloodily De&s;troying of us. I mu&s;t freely tell you, I Think, we are, The old <HI>Britons,</HI> did not what they &s;hould have done, to Convert the <HI>Saxons</HI> unto Chri&s;tianity; and when the <HI>Britons</HI> were afterwards fearfully De&s;troy'd by the <HI>Saxons,</HI> their famous Countrey|man <HI>Gildas</HI> told them, <HI>This is the Vengeance of God upon you, becau&s;e you did no more, for the Con|ver&s;ion of tho&s;e Mi&s;erable Heathen.</HI> And I admire, that the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Prote&s;tants in <HI>Ireland,</HI> after &s;uch Ma&s;&s;acres from the <HI>Iri&s;h Papi&s;ts,</HI> do no more Effectually make this Reflection. But that which I am now to Reflect upon, is This: Had we done, but half &s;o much as the <HI>French Papists</HI> have done, to Pro&s;elyte the <HI>Indians</HI> of our Ea&s;t, unto the <HI>Chri&s;tian Faith,</HI> in&s;tead of being, <HI>Snares and Traps</HI> unto us, <HI>and Scourges in our Sides, and Thorns in our Eyes</HI> they would have been, <HI>A wall unto us, both by Night and Day.</HI> What a <HI>Sting</HI> was there in tho&s;e words, which the <HI>Indians</HI> have u|&s;ed unto &s;ome of our <HI>Captives, Had the Engli&s;h been as careful to In&s;truct us, as the French, we had been of your Religion!</HI> Indeed, it can Scarce, without an har&s;h <HI>Catechre&s;is,</HI> be called, <HI>The Chri&s;ti|an Faith,</HI> which the <HI>French Papi&s;ts</HI> have made the
<PB N="216" REF="109"> Salvages to Swallow: But it the Salvages had been Enlightened with <HI>The Christian Faith,</HI> f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om us, the <HI>French Papists</HI> could never have in&s;till'd into them tho&s;e <HI>French Poi&s;ons,</HI> that have made &s;uch Raging <HI>Devils</HI> of them. Through the Ble&s;|&s;ing of God, upon the Endeavours of Good men, in this one <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;et</HI> Province, the <HI>Indians</HI> have mo&s;tly Embraced the <HI>Christian Religion.</HI><NOTE N="[*" PLACE="marg">Of that matter &s;ee a Printed Account, at the end of Mr. <HI>Noyes's</HI> Election-Sermon; whereto I have here this to add, That an Hopeful and Worthy Young man, Mr. <HI>Experience Mayhew,</HI> omitted in that <HI>Printed Journal,</HI> meerly be|cau&s;e he was more largely mentioned in the annexed <HI>Propo&s;als</HI> of the Gentlemen that made it, which are <HI>not Printed</HI> with it, mu&s;t now have the Ju&s;tice done him, of this Cha|racter, <HI>That in the Evan|gelical Service of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, among the Indians, there is no man that Exceeds tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Mr. Mayhew, <HI>if there be any that Equals him.</HI> So I am informed con|cerning him.]</NOTE> There are, I &s;uppo&s;e, more than Thirty Congregations of <HI>Indians,</HI> and many more than Thirty Hundred <HI>In|dians,</HI> in this one Province, calling on God in Chri&s;t, and Hearing of His Glo|rious Word. <HI>Who&s;o is wi&s;e, will ob&s;erve</HI> a Notable Smile of God upon tho&s;e that have Worthily En|couraged and pro&s;ecuted this <HI>Evangelical Work.</HI> But &s;hall we not, at the &s;ame Time <HI>Ob&s;erve,</HI> how Signal|ly the <HI>Wrath</HI> of God hath fallen upon the Per&s;ons, or E&s;tates, of them that have Debauched the <HI>Indians,</HI> by Selling of <HI>Drink</HI> unto them. The <HI>Trading Hou|&s;es,</HI> where the <HI>Indians</HI> of the
<PB N="217" REF="109"> Ea&s;t, had &s;o much, of their <HI>Drink</HI> and <HI>Bane,</HI> what is become of them, Every one of them? The <HI>Sword</HI> ha's been <HI>Drunk with the Blood,</HI> of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> in the Hands of tho&s;e very <HI>Indians,</HI> which have been &s;o often <HI>Drunk</HI> among them. And the&s;e Bloody Mer|chants of the Souls of the <HI>Indians,</HI> when they have Summed up all their Gains, the Foot of the Ac|count ha's been this, <HI>Wo to him that gives his Neigh|bour Drink, that puts the Bottel to him, to make him Drunk.</HI> Tho&s;e <HI>Men,</HI> are not <HI>Wi&s;e</HI> but <HI>Mad,</HI> who can <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things,</HI> and now dare to Repeat this Iniquity, or dream that any <HI>Gains</HI> are to be got by feeding the <HI>Indian Lust</HI> of <HI>Drunkenne&s;s.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>IV.</HI> In the WAR that hath been upon us, <HI>Who&s;o is wi&s;e, may ob&s;erve</HI> the Loud <HI>Calls</HI> of Hea|ven to <HI>All Ranks of men,</HI> in the &s;harp <HI>Strokes</HI> of Heaven on <HI>All Ranks of men.</HI> As it was &s;aid, in Mic. 6.9. <HI>The Lords voice crieth unto the City, and the man of Wi&s;dom &s;hall &s;ee thy Name; Hear ye the Rod:</HI> So I &s;ay, There has been a <HI>voice of God</HI> unto all the Countrey in that <HI>Indian Rod,</HI> which hath been u&s;ed upon us: and <HI>Men of Wi&s;dom, in all Ranks</HI> of men, will <HI>Ob&s;erve,</HI> and See, and Hear, the meaning of this <HI>Rod;</HI> ina&s;|much as <HI>all Ranks</HI> of men have &s;marted under it; yea, it has fetch'd Blood from <HI>all Ranks</HI>
<PB N="218" REF="110"> of men among us. We will a little particula|rize 'em. And fir&s;t of all, You that are our Honoured <HI>Shepherds;</HI> Will you <HI>Ob&s;erve</HI> how many of our <HI>Shepherds</HI> have been worried unto Death, by the <HI>Scythian Wolves</HI> of our Wilder|ne&s;s? Two of our MAGISTRATES, have been Treacherou&s;ly and Barbarou&s;ly Killed by the <HI>Indian Murderers:</HI> They whom God En|tru&s;ted with the <HI>Sword of Ju&s;tice</HI> have had their Lives taken away by the <HI>Sword of the Wicked.</HI> I per&s;wade my &s;elf, that the re&s;t will be &s;o wi&s;e as to <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things,</HI> and <HI>Ob&s;erve</HI> how to an&s;wer the ju&s;t Expectation of God, in their Admini&s;trations. After this, Oh! Why &s;hould not our <HI>Civil Rulers,</HI> with more zeal than ever &s;et them&s;elves to ponder, <HI>How may I mo&s;t Glorify God, and Chri&s;t,, and Serve his dear people with my Opportunities!</HI></P>
<P>Two of our MINISTERS, have been <HI>Struck down</HI> into the Earth by the <HI>Indian Dragons.</HI> They that have u&s;ed nothing but the <HI>Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God,</HI> for the Sa|ving of all about them, have had the <HI>De&s;troyers coming upon them,</HI> and have been <HI>Waited for of the Sword.</HI> I a&s;&s;ure my &s;elf, that the re&s;t will be &s;o <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> as to <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things,</HI> and <HI>Ob&s;erve</HI> how to fulfil our Mini&s;try, with a very Excited Watchfulne&s;s. May all our <HI>Settled Pa&s;tors,</HI> upon &s;uch a thing befalling our Brethren, Re&s;olve with them&s;elves; <HI>Am unworthy I &s;pared? I will
<PB N="219" REF="110"> do more for my Lord, and more for my Flock, and more for all the Churches, than ever I did.</HI></P>
<P>We will pa&s;s on, There have been &s;ome <HI>Rich men,</HI> that were finely Scituated, and <HI>had all things Richly to Enjoy:</HI> But this <HI>War</HI> has reduced them to &s;uch Nece&s;&s;ity, that within Le&s;s than One year, they have come to <HI>Beg their Bread:</HI> All their <HI>Trea&s;ures</HI> have been <HI>Trea&s;ures of Snow;</HI> One Summer has melted all away to Nothing. I Remember, the Jewi&s;h <HI>Talmuds</HI> tell us, of a Gentlewoman, who had a Thou&s;and Thou|&s;and pieces of Gold. given with her, at her Marriage, by her Father <HI>Nicodemus,</HI> for her Portion; and yet &s;he was reduced unto &s;uch penury, that &s;he pick'd Barley-Corns out of the Cattles Dung for her Food. Have not we &s;een almo&s;t &s;uch Vici&s;&s;itudes? <HI>Rich men,</HI> If you are <HI>Wi&s;e,</HI> (which the <HI>Rich</HI> are <HI>not alwayes!</HI>) You will <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things,</HI> and upon the <HI>Ob&s;ervation</HI> &s;ay, <HI>Well, What man in his Right Wits, will now &s;et his Heart upon &s;uch Tran&s;itory, as all Sublunary Vanities! Oh! my Soul, Do thou make &s;ure of a Better and a La&s;t|ing Sub&s;tance in Heaven; for Earthly Riches, take them&s;elves Wing, and flee away towards Heaven.</HI></P>
<P>Again, There have been abundance of <HI>Poor men,</HI> who have been by this <HI>War</HI> plunged &s;till into deeper <HI>Poverty:</HI> They have gone without a <HI>Bit of Bread,</HI> for many dayes toge|ther
<PB N="220" REF="111"> The Straits, the Wants, the Cares of <HI>Widows,</HI> and <HI>Orphans,</HI> or of tho&s;e that have had many mouths to Feed, e&s;pecially in our Expo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d Frontiers; None can Expre&s;s them, None can Conceive them, but They, (Nor <HI>They!</HI>) who did Endure them all. <HI>Poor men,</HI> If you are <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> (which the <HI>Poor</HI> may be!) You will <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things,</HI> and upon the <HI>Ob&s;ervation,</HI> &s;ays: <HI>Well, I had need make &s;ure that my Soul may not be Starved by wanting the Bread of Life, and that my Soul may not be Na|ked without the Garments of Righteou&s;ne&s;s; How dolefully am I circum&s;tanced, if I go down from one Hell unto another at the La&s;t!</HI></P>
<P>Once more; How many <HI>Women</HI> have been made a <HI>prey</HI> to tho&s;e <HI>Bruiti&s;h men,</HI> that are <HI>Skil|ful to De&s;troy?</HI> How many a <HI>Fearful Thing</HI> has been &s;uffered by the <HI>Fearful Sex,</HI> from tho&s;e <HI>men,</HI> that one would <HI>Fear,</HI> as <HI>Devils</HI> rather than men? Let the <HI>Daughters</HI> of our <HI>Zion</HI> think with them&s;elves, what it would be, for fierce <HI>Indians</HI> to break into their Hou&s;es, and brain their <HI>Hus|bands</HI> and their <HI>Chi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dren</HI> before their Eyes, and Lead them away a Long Journey into the <HI>Woods;</HI> and if they began to <HI>fail</HI> and <HI>faint</HI> in the Journey, then for a Tawny Salvage to come with Hell fire in his Eyes, and cut 'em down with his Hatchet; or, if they could miraculou&s;ly <HI>hold out,</HI> then for &s;ome Filthy and ugly <HI>Squaw's</HI> to become their <HI>in&s;olent Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es,</HI> and in&s;olently
<PB N="221" REF="111"> to abu&s;e 'em at their plea&s;ure a thou&s;and inex|pre&s;&s;ible ways; and, if they had any of their <HI>Sucking Infants</HI> with them, then to &s;ee tho&s;e Tender Infants handled at &s;uch a rate, that they &s;hould beg of the <HI>Tygres,</HI> to di&s;patch 'em out of hand. Such things as the&s;e, I tell you, have often happened in this Lamentable <HI>War.</HI> And now, O ye Handmaids of the Lord; will you not be &s;o <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> as to <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things?</HI> But upon the <HI>Ob&s;ervation,</HI> &s;ay, <HI>Well, I will Ble&s;s God, for my Enjoyments; my Afflictions, be they never &s;o many, are not &s;uch as my Neighbours have &s;een: My Enjoyments are more than my Afflictions. But, Oh! Let me Love and Serve the Good God, that has di&s;tingui&s;hed me with His Mercies.</HI></P>
<P>It is to be added; We have had our <HI>Old men</HI> who&s;e <HI>Gray Hairs have not come down to the Grave in peace. Young Indians</HI> have with grievous Flouts and Wounds, Butchered many of our <HI>Old Engli&s;h men.</HI> The <HI>Gray Hairs</HI> of our <HI>Old men,</HI> have been Dyed Red with their own Blood; and their Carca&s;es have been thrown unto the <HI>Swine,</HI> to mangle them. <HI>Old men,</HI> If you are <HI>Wi&s;e men,</HI> you will <HI>Ob&s;erve</HI> the&s;e things; but <HI>Ob&s;erving</HI> of them, &s;ay, <HI>Oh! Let my Hoary Head be found in the way of Righ|teou&s;ne&s;s!</HI></P>
<P>But our <HI>Young men</HI> are they whom the Fury of <HI>War,</HI> hath been chiefly poured out upon Alas, Alas, for our <HI>Young men!</HI> They are the
<PB N="222" REF="112"> per&s;ons, with whom, it &s;eems to have been the very Errand of this <HI>War,</HI> to manage the terrible Controver&s;y of God. <HI>New-England</HI> &s;ets a pe|culiar Accent of Grief upon this, among all her Lamentations; <HI>The Lord has trodden under foot my mighty men in the mid&s;t of me, He hath called an A&s;&s;embly again&s;t me, to cru&s;h my young men.</HI> Come then, My <HI>Young men;</HI> Be &s;o <HI>Wi&s;e,</HI> as to <HI>Ob&s;erve</HI> the&s;e things; and upon the <HI>Ob&s;ervation,</HI> &s;ay, <HI>Lord, Let not me, and the re&s;t of my Generation, continue among the Generation of thy Wrath.</HI> Yea, to have done; <HI>Children</HI> al&s;o have not been Ex|cu&s;ed from a &s;nare in the Blows of this hideous <HI>War.</HI> Little <HI>Boyes</HI> and <HI>Girls,</HI> even the&s;e Little <HI>Chickens,</HI> have been Siezed by the <HI>Indian</HI> Vul|tures. Our Little <HI>Birds</HI> have been Spirited a|way by the Indian Devourers, and brought up, in a vile Slavery, till &s;ome of them have quite forgot their <HI>Engli&s;h Tongue,</HI> and their <HI>Chri&s;tian Name,</HI> and their whole <HI>Relation.</HI> Yea, Tho&s;e <HI>Babylonians,</HI> have <HI>Da&s;h'd out the Brains of our Lit|tle Ones again&s;t the Stones.</HI> And our <HI>Little Ones</HI> have been hideou&s;ly whipped unto Death, by tho&s;e Mercile&s;s Tygres, who&s;e <HI>Tender Mercies are Cruelty. Children,</HI> God make you &s;o <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> as to <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things;</HI> and upon the <HI>Ob&s;er|vation,</HI> Oh! See that you become <HI>Serious, Pious, Orderly</HI> Children; Obedient unto your Parents, Con&s;cientious to keep the <HI>Lords Day,</HI> and afraid of committing any <HI>Wickedne&s;s.</HI></P>
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<P>Upon the whole; when a Dead man was thrown into the Grave of <HI>Eli&s;ha,</HI> a Touch from the Bones of the Prophet in the Grave Rais'd him from the Dead. I am de&s;iring, that <HI>Reli|gion</HI> may be Revived out of the <HI>Death</HI> which has too much Enfeebled it among us. Behold, Syrs, I have now ca&s;t you into the <HI>Graves</HI> of our <HI>Dead Friends;</HI> It may be, by <HI>wi&s;ely ob&s;erving</HI> of them, and the things that have be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">allen them, we may be &s;omewhat <HI>Rai&s;ed</HI> out of our Deadly Security. Let our <HI>Ob&s;ervation of the&s;e things,</HI> give &s;ome <HI>Life</HI> to the practice of <HI>Religi|on</HI> among us.</P>
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<P><HI>V.</HI> In the WAR that hath been upon us, <HI>Who&s;o is Wi&s;e, may Ob&s;erve,</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Tragical Things</HI> undergone by many in <HI>Captivity,</HI> that are full of Admonition unto us, that have never felt the <HI>Tragaedies</HI> of &s;uch a <HI>Captivity.</HI> Several <HI>Hun|dreds</HI> of our Neighbours, fir&s;t and la&s;t, have been carried into <HI>Captivity,</HI> by the mo&s;t Bea&s;tly and Bloody things that ever wore the Shape of <HI>men,</HI> in the World. <HI>New-England</HI> makes that moan, in Lam. 1.18. <HI>Hear,</HI> I <HI>pray you, all people, and behold my Sorrow; my Virgins and my Young men are gone into Captivity.</HI> But Oh! the prodigious, and &s;tupendous Things, that they have undergone in this <HI>Captivity!</HI> What weary Dayes and Nights have rolled over the mi&s;erable <HI>Captives,</HI> while they have not had a
<PB N="224" REF="113"> Bit of <HI>Meat</HI> allow'd 'em, Except what a Dog would hardly meddle with! While they have &s;ometimes been pinched with the Bitter <HI>Fro&s;t</HI> without Rags to cover their Nakedne&s;s, and &s;ometimes been Parched with the Burning <HI>Heat,</HI> without any Cordial or Shelter to Refre&s;h them: While they have &s;een their neare&s;t <HI>Relations</HI> torn in pieces alive before their Eyes, and yet tho&s;e Eyes afraid of dropping a Tear at the mourn|ful Sight: Yea, while they have every Hour, look'd when they &s;hould be them&s;elves Roa&s;ted alive to make a <HI>Fea&s;t,</HI> and a <HI>Sport</HI> for the horrid <HI>Cannibals!</HI> Need I tell you, That tho&s;e <HI>Devils Incarnate,</HI> have Tyed their <HI>Captives</HI> unto Trees, and fir&s;t cutting off their <HI>Ears,</HI> have made them to Eat their own Ears, and then have broyled their whole <HI>Bodies,</HI> with &s;low Fires, dancing the mean while about them, and cutting out Collops of their Fle&s;h, till with lingring Tortures they have Martyred them to Death! Such Things have been done, by the <HI>Inhumane Salvages</HI> upon our <HI>Captives,</HI> that is a &s;ort of <HI>Inhumanity</HI> bare|ly to mention them. Now, &s;hall we be <HI>Wi&s;e,</HI> to <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things?</HI> The <HI>Ob&s;ervation</HI> mu&s;t be made, with that Admonition, in Luk. 13.4, 5. <HI>Think ye, that the&s;e were Sinners above all men? I tell you, Nay; but Except ye Repent, ye &s;hall all like|wi&s;e peri&s;h.</HI> Wherefore, let us penitently Confe&s;s, That we have <HI>All</HI> de&s;erved tho&s;e <HI>Mi&s;erable Things,</HI> wherewith <HI>Some</HI> have been &s;o marked out, by
<PB N="225" REF="113"> the Soveraignty of Heaven. In the Things that have been done to our <HI>Captives,</HI> the Great <HI>Lord of Ho&s;ts,</HI> hath dealt with us as <HI>Generals</HI> u&s;e to do, upon the Sedition and Mutiny of <HI>Military Le|gions:</HI> He makes a &s;ort of <HI>Decimation</HI> among the Offenders, and by what He does to &s;ome, He declares what He might ju&s;tly do to all the re&s;t. We mu&s;t all a&s;cribe it unto the meer <HI>Soveraign mercy</HI> of God, that we are not every one of us, <HI>broken in the place of Dragons,</HI> as the&s;e de&s;olate Captives were. That which the Scripture calls, <HI>The place of Dragons,</HI> I Remember one of the Jewi&s;h Rabbi's Expounds, <HI>A Wilderne&s;s.</HI> Truly our <HI>Wilderne&s;s</HI> hath been, <HI>The place of Dragons.</HI> But, while we <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things,</HI> we &s;hall not be <HI>Wi&s;e,</HI> if we do not Learn, <HI>Oh! what an E|vil and a bitter thing is our Sin! And what hor|rendous mi&s;eries mu&s;t we Expect among the Devils, if we dy with our Sin impardoned!</HI></P>
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<P><HI>VI.</HI> In the WAR that hath been upon us, <HI>Who&s;o is wi&s;e, may ob&s;erve,</HI> a <HI>Work,</HI> a <HI>Strange Work</HI> of Heaven, as it were <HI>Devi&s;ing</HI> of wayes, very &s;trangely to Di&s;tre&s;s all &s;orts of people, in all &s;orts of Intere&s;ts. Truly the very Character of our Calamity, hath all along been This; The Great God has written &s;till upon it, we may Read upon it in a very Legible Character, tho&s;e words, in Jer. 18.11. <HI>Thus &s;aith the Lord, Behold, I Frame Evil against you, I devi&s;e a De|vice
<PB N="226" REF="114"> again&s;t you.</HI> It hath been, as if wayes had been deliberately, and exqui&s;itely <HI>Studied,</HI> and as if with much <HI>Contrivance</HI> plotted for to bring us all within the Reach of the general Calamity. We have now Langui&s;hed thro' <HI>Ten Years,</HI> which have been the Sadde&s;t, and the Darke&s;t, and the <HI>Stormiest Years,</HI> that ever we &s;aw. If the <HI>History</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Ten Years</HI> were to be written, I am thinking, What &s;hould be the <HI>Title;</HI> Truly, It might be Entituled, as <HI>Ezekiels</HI> Roll was, <HI>La|mentation, and Mourning, and Wo.</HI> Yea, you &s;hall now have the <HI>History</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Ten Years</HI> written for you; I'l give it you, in as Expre&s;|&s;ive words as can be; even in tho&s;e words, 2 Chron. 15.5, 6. <HI>In tho&s;e Times, there was no peace to him that went out, nor him that came in, but great Vexations were upon all the Inhabita<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> of the Countreys, for God did vex them with an Ad|ver&s;ity.</HI> There is a Variety of <HI>Adver&s;ity,</HI> with which the tedious <HI>War</HI> it &s;elf hath <HI>vexed</HI> us. The General Fate of the <HI>War,</HI> hath involved <HI>Numberle&s;s Families</HI> in &s;everal circum&s;tances of <HI>Adver&s;ity;</HI> and the <HI>Expen&s;ive</HI> part of the <HI>War</HI> hath been an heavy Scourge of <HI>Adver&s;ity</HI> upon tho&s;e that could not be reach'd by the <HI>De&s;truct|ive</HI> part of it, You could not but <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e things:</HI> But then, have you not <HI>ob&s;erved,</HI> what a further variety of <HI>Adver&s;ity</HI> hath been <HI>Contem|porary</HI> with this <HI>Vexatious War.</HI> Alas, There hath been &s;uch a <HI>Complication</HI> of other Di&s;tre&s;&s;es add|ed
<PB N="227" REF="114"> unto the <HI>War,</HI> in the Time of it,, that <HI>no-bo|dy,</HI> No, I &s;ay, <HI>No-body</HI> hath been left free from tho&s;e Dolorous Ejulations, <HI>I am one that hath been Afflicted by the Rod of the Wrath of God.</HI></P>
<P>A Great King of <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> having by Death lo&s;t the neare&s;t Relation he had in the world, and being too pa&s;&s;ionate a Mourner for his Lo&s;s, an Ingenious man undertook, to Rai&s;e the Dead Relation, unto Life again, if the King would but furni&s;h him in one point, that he apprehended nece&s;&s;ary; It was demanded, <HI>What that was?</HI> and it was replied, <HI>Furni&s;h me but with the Names of Three per&s;ons, who have never met with any Sadne&s;s and Sorrow, and by Writing tho&s;e Names on the Monument of the Dead, I'l bring the Dead per|&s;on to Life.</HI> Truly, The <HI>Ten Years</HI> of our <HI>War</HI> have &s;et many <HI>Ten Hundreds</HI> of per&s;ons a Mour|ning over their <HI>Dead Friends;</HI> we have &s;een e|very where, <HI>The Mourners go about the Streets:</HI> Now, I dur&s;t make you this offer; that if you can find <HI>Three per&s;ons,</HI> who have met with no matter of <HI>Sadne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Sorrow</HI> in the&s;e <HI>Ten Years,</HI> with the Names of them, we'l fetch your <HI>Dead, Friends</HI> to Life again. It 'twas &s;aid, in Job 21.17. <HI>God Di&s;tributeth Sorrows in His Anger.</HI> You may <HI>Ob&s;erve</HI> a marvellous <HI>Distribution of Sorrows</HI> made among us, by the <HI>Anger</HI> of God.</P>
<P>And here, fir&s;t, I &s;ay nothing of that Amazing Time, when the <HI>Evil Angels</HI> in a praeternatural and in an unparallel'd manner being Let Loo&s;e
<PB N="228" REF="115"> among us; <HI>God cast upon us the Fiercene&s;s of His Anger, &amp; Wrath and Indignation and Trouble.</HI> It was the Threatning of God again&s;t a peo|ple, which He had call'd His <HI>Children;</HI> in Deut. 32.23, 24. <HI>I will Heap Mi&s;chiefs upon them, I will Spend my Arrows upon them, they &s;hall be Devoured with a Bitter De&s;truction;</HI> What was the <HI>Bitter De&s;truction</HI> thus Threat|ned unto an Apo&s;tatizing People? I remem|ber, the famous Jew <HI>Onkelos</HI> renders it, <HI>They &s;hall be vexed with Evil Spirits;</HI> and indeed, that Sen&s;e well agrees with what follows, <HI>I will &s;end upon them the poi&s;on of the Serpents of the Du&s;t.</HI> Syrs, For our <HI>Apo&s;ta&s;y</HI> (which is the very Sin of the <HI>Evil Spirits!</HI>) the God of Heaven, a while ago turned in the <HI>Armies of Hell</HI> upon us; and in that matchle&s;s Di&s;|pen&s;ation of God, we underwent a <HI>Bitter De|&s;truction,</HI> from the <HI>poi&s;on of the Serpents of the Du&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>But there are other points, not a few, where|in the Great God hath <HI>Heaped Mi&s;chiefs</HI> upon us; and fulfill'd unto us that Holy Commi|nation, Ezek. 7.26. <HI>Mi&s;chief &s;hall come upon mi&s;|chief.</HI> What &s;hall I &s;ay? While the <HI>Lord of Ho&s;ts</HI> hath been again&s;t us, the <HI>Ho&s;ts of Lord</HI> have been &s;o too; All the <HI>Elements</HI> have as it were been up in Arms again&s;t us.</P>
<P>Particularly; You may <HI>Ob&s;erve,</HI> That Epide|mical <HI>Sickne&s;&s;es,</HI> have in the&s;e years, been once
<PB N="229" REF="115"> and again upon us; wherein the <HI>Angels of Death,</HI> have Shot the <HI>Arrows of Death,</HI> into &s;uch as could not be reached by the <HI>Bullets</HI> of the <HI>Indian</HI> Ene|my. This one Town, did in one year, loo&s;e, I &s;uppo&s;e, at lea&s;t Six or Seven Hundred of its People, by one contagious Mortality. And tho' of about Three and Twenty Hundred men, that we Employ'd in one Action, we did, in that Action, loo&s;e hardly Thirty men, yet how many Hundreds did afterwards mi&s;erably peri&s;h?</P>
<P>Again; You may <HI>Ob&s;erve,</HI> That the <HI>Harve&s;t,</HI> hath once and again grievou&s;ly failed in the&s;e years; and we have been <HI>Struck thro' with the Terrible Famine,</HI> almo&s;t as much as if the <HI>Indian</HI> Enemy had been all the while Skulking about our Fields. The very <HI>Cour&s;e of Nature</HI> hath been altered among us; A Lamentable cry for, <HI>Bread, Bread!</HI> hath been heard in our Streets: The Towns that formerly Supplyed other places with <HI>Grain,</HI> had now been <HI>Fami&s;hed,</HI> if other places had not &s;ent in a Supply to Them, and had a black pro&s;pect of being Fami&s;hed, notwith&s;tanding that Supply.</P>
<P>Once more; You may <HI>Ob&s;erve,</HI> That the <HI>Sea</HI> hath in the&s;e years been Swallowing up our <HI>Neighbours,</HI> and their <HI>E&s;tates,</HI> far more than the <HI>Sword of the Wilderne&s;s.</HI> Alas, The Devouring Di&s;plea&s;ure of God, hath &s;aid concerning us, <HI>Though they go to hide them&s;elves from my Sight afar
<PB N="230" REF="116"> off upon the Sea, Thence will I command the Serpent, and he &s;hall bite them.</HI> And here, hath it been <HI>Enough,</HI> that our Ve&s;&s;els, enough to make an huge Fleet, have been taken by the <HI>French Ene|my?</HI> A certain Writer hath computed it, That in only the Fir&s;t Two or Three years of the <HI>War,</HI> the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation lo&s;t unto the <HI>French,</HI> more than Fifteen Millions of Pounds Sterling. But no part of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation hath been more frequently or &s;en&s;ibly prey'd upon, by the <HI>French,</HI> than what hath gone out of <HI>New England,</HI> ever &s;ince the <HI>War</HI> began. I &s;ay, Ha's this been <HI>Enough?</HI> No, The wrath of God &s;aid, <HI>This is not Enough!</HI> I appeal to you, that have been <HI>Owners</HI> of Ve&s;&s;els, or <HI>Sailors</HI> in them, whether horrible <HI>Shipwracks</HI> have not been multiplied &s;ince the <HI>War</HI> began, very much more than ever they were before? <HI>Ah, Lord!</HI> How many of us, have Shed <HI>Rivers of Tears,</HI> over our dear Friends that have been <HI>Buried in the Ocean!</HI></P>
<P>Moreover; You may <HI>Ob&s;erve,</HI> That in the&s;e years, tho&s;e very Things which were intended for our <HI>Defence,</HI> have oftentimes been &s;o much Improved for our <HI>Damage,</HI> that it was hard for us to &s;ay, which was the Greater, the <HI>Defence,</HI> or the <HI>Damage,</HI> which we had from them. It was a Lamen|table Time with the <HI>Jewes,</HI> when that <HI>Cur&s;e</HI> came upon them, <HI>That which &s;hould have been for their Wel|fare, Let it become a Trap, &amp; pour out thine Indignation upon them.</HI> Truly, The <HI>Indignation</HI> of God hath been <HI>poured out</HI> upon us, in this Fruit of the <HI>Cur&s;e,</HI> no
<PB N="231" REF="116"> le&s;s frequently then &s;en&s;ibly, that &s;ome things which &s;hould have been <HI>for our Welfare,</HI> have at the &s;ame time, &s;erved al&s;o to <HI>Entrap</HI> the <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> and <HI>Intere&s;ts</HI> of many people, into &s;ore Incon|veniencies. There is no need of Explaining this Article; They that have been under this <HI>Indig|nation</HI> of God, know the Explaining of it!</P>
<P>Finally, You may <HI>Ob&s;erve,</HI> What <HI>Untimely Ends,</HI> and what <HI>Surprizing Fates,</HI> have come up|on our <HI>Sons,</HI> in the&s;e <HI>Years of the Wrath of the Right-Hand of the Mo&s;t High.</HI> When <HI>Crae&s;us</HI> was in <HI>War</HI> taken by <HI>Cyrus,</HI> this Captive made unto the Conqueror, this Remark upon the Diffe|rence between <HI>Peace</HI> and <HI>War; O Syr, I &s;ee, that in a time of Peace, the Sons Bury their Fathers, but in a Time of War, the Fathers Bury their Sons,</HI> Truly, Sirs, our Time of <HI>War</HI> has in <HI>Various Wayes</HI> of Morta|lity, been Embittered with this Remark, <HI>The Fa|thers have been Burying their Sons, all the Countrey over!</HI> Many of us, have had our <HI>Sons,</HI> even tho&s;e very <HI>Sons,</HI> of whom we &s;aid, <HI>This &s;ame &s;hall Comfort us!</HI> We have had them violently &s;natch'd away from us, and Cropt in the very Flower of their <HI>Youth;</HI> and they have Left us deploring, <HI>Oh, my Son, with all my Heart could I have Dy|ed for thee, my Son, my Son!</HI> But in the mid&s;t of the&s;e Deplorable Things, God hath given up &s;everal of our Sons, into the Hands of the Fierce <HI>Mon&s;ters</HI> of <HI>Africa. Mahometan</HI> Turks and Moors, and Devils, are at this Day oppre&s;&s;ing many of
<PB N="232" REF="117"> our Sons, with a <HI>Slavery,</HI> wherein they <HI>Wi&s;h for Death, and cannot find it;</HI> a <HI>Slavery,</HI> from whence they cry and write unto us, <HI>It had been Good for us, that we had never been Born.</HI></P>
<Q><L>&mdash;Quis talia fando</L>
<L>Temperet a Lacrymis?&mdash;</L></Q>
<P>Thus, as <HI>Job</HI> &s;ometimes complained, Chap. 10.17. <HI>Thou Renewe&s;t thy Witne&s;&s;es again&s;t me, and increa&s;e&s;t thine Indignation upon me; Changes and War are again&s;t me:</HI> Thus, in our Long <HI>War,</HI> we have &s;een tho&s;e <HI>Changes</HI> on all Hands, and in all Kinds, which have <HI>witne&s;&s;ed</HI> again&s;t us, the Dreadful <HI>Indignation</HI> of God. God Threatned His people, (&s;o I read it,) Amos 2.13. <HI>Behold, I will pre&s;s your place as a full Cart pre&s;&s;es the Sheaf:</HI> ['Tis an Allu&s;ion to the old way of Thre&s;hing the <HI>Corn,</HI> by drawing a Loaden <HI>Cart</HI> with <HI>Wheels,</HI> over the <HI>Corn.</HI> 9. <HI>d.</HI> You &s;hall undergo <HI>Tribula|tion.</HI>] Ah, <HI>New-England,</HI> Thou ha&s;t been under &s;uch a <HI>Tribulation.</HI></P>
<P>Syrs, Have you not <HI>Ob&s;erved</HI> the&s;e things? But you mu&s;t <HI>wi&s;ely Ob&s;erve</HI> them. And a <HI>wi&s;e Ob&s;ervation</HI> of the&s;e things, will cau&s;e you to &s;ee, <HI>That the War which hath been upon us, hath been a War of GOD.</HI> The <HI>Indians</HI> have been but a &s;mall part of tho&s;e <HI>Armies,</HI> which the Great GOD, hath been bringing out again&s;t us, for <HI>Ten Years</HI> together; and we may conclude,
<PB N="233" REF="117"> that <HI>all the Land</HI> have been more or le&s;s con|cerned in tho&s;e Crimes, for which the Almighty GOD, hath been with the&s;e <HI>Armies</HI> managing His Controve&s;y with us: Our Confe&s;&s;ion mu&s;t be, <HI>Peccavimus omnes; We have all gone a&s;tray!</HI> But &s;hall we not upon this <HI>Ob&s;ervation,</HI> take up &s;ome <HI>Re&s;olution?</HI> If we are <HI>Wi&s;e,</HI> we fhall thus <HI>Re&s;olve; 'Tis Time, 'Tis Time, 'Tis High-Time for us, to make our Peaee with God, Oh, Let us not go on to Harden our &s;elves again&s;t God; we are not Stronger than He: But let us all Fly to the Lord Je&s;us Cori&s;t, who is our Peace, and &s;o lay down the Arms of Rebellion, that God may be Reconciled unto us.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>VII.</HI> In the WAR that hath been upon us, <HI>Who&s;o is wi&s;e, may Ob&s;erve</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ations</HI> of Heaven towards us, that have carryed more than Ordinary <HI>Humiliations</HI> in them. It was &s;aid con|cerning <HI>Miriam,</HI> (the Type of the Now Leprous and out-ca&s;t Church of <HI>I&s;rael; The Lord ha&s;ten that Seventh Day, wherein it &s;hall be Re&s;tored!</HI>) Numb. 12.14. <HI>If her Father had Spit in her Face, &s;hould &s;he not be A&s;hamed?</HI> Ah <HI>New England,</HI> Thy <HI>Father</HI> hath been <HI>Spitting in thy Face,</HI> with mo&s;t <HI>Humbling Di&s;pen&s;ations;</HI> God hath been bringing of thee <HI>down to Sit in the Du&s;t.</HI> When the <HI>War</HI> commenced, <HI>New-England</HI> might &s;ay, <HI>My God will Humble me!</HI></P>
<P>For, Fir&s;t; Shall our Heavenly <HI>Father</HI> put a <HI>Rod</HI> into the Hands of ba&s;e <HI>Indians,</HI> and bid <HI>Them</HI>
<PB N="234" REF="118"> to Scourge His <HI>Children!</HI> Oh! the <HI>Humiliation</HI> of &s;uch Rebellious <HI>Children!</HI> Oh! the <HI>Provocation,</HI> that certainly &s;uch <HI>Sons</HI> and &s;uch <HI>Daughters</HI> have given Him! It was a very <HI>Humbling</HI> thing, that the Lord Threatned unto His <HI>Provoking Sons &amp; Daughters,</HI> in Deut. 32.21. <HI>I will move them to Jealou&s;y, with tho&s;e which are not a People; I will provoke them to Anger with a Fooli&s;h Nation.</HI> Should a Child of yours be Refractory, and you, Sir, &s;hould bid a <HI>Negro</HI> or an <HI>Indian</HI> Slave in your Hou&s;e, <HI>Go, Take that Child, and Scourge him till you fetch Blood of him!</HI> Surely, this would be to <HI>Humble</HI> him <HI>unto the Uttermo&s;t.</HI> Thus doth thy God <HI>Humble</HI> thee, O <HI>New-England,</HI> by putting thee over, into the Vile Hands of tho&s;e which are <HI>not a People, but a Fooli&s;h Nation.</HI></P>
<P>Again; <HI>Who</HI> are they, by who&s;e means we are now crying out, <HI>We are Brought very Low?</HI> When the mo&s;t High God, was determined Effectually to <HI>Humble,</HI> His People, he &s;aid, in Jer. 37.10. <HI>Though ye had Smitten the whole Army of the Caldeans, that fight again&s;t you, and there re|mained but wounded men among them, yet &s;hould they Ri&s;e up every man in his Tent; and burn this City with Fire.</HI> Truly, we had <HI>Smitten the whole Army,</HI> of the <HI>Indians</HI> that <HI>Fought</HI> again&s;t us Three and Twenty years ago, from one end of the Land unto the other; only there were left a few <HI>Wounded men among them</HI> in the Ea&s;t; and now, they have <HI>Ri&s;en up every man,</HI> and have &s;et the
<PB N="235" REF="118"> whole Country on <HI>Fire.</HI> Certainly, A more <HI>Humbling</HI> matter cannot be Related!</P>
<P>Moreover; Is it not a very <HI>Humbling</HI> Thing, That when about an <HI>Hundred Indians</HI> dur&s;t Begin a <HI>War,</HI> upon all the&s;e Populous Colonies, an Army of a <HI>Thou&s;and Engli&s;h</HI> rai&s;ed, mu&s;t not kill one of them all; but in&s;tead thereof, more of our <HI>Souldiers</HI> peri&s;h by Sickne&s;s and Hard&s;hip than we had <HI>Enemies</HI> then in the world? <HI>Our God ha's Humbled us!</HI></P>
<P>Is it not a very <HI>Humbling</HI> Thing, That when the Number of our <HI>Enemies</HI> afterwards Increa&s;ed, yet an Handful of them &s;hould, for &s;o many Summers together continue our <HI>Unconquered Spoilers,</HI> and put us to &s;uch Va&s;t Charges, that if we could have Bought them, for <HI>an Hundred Pound an Head,</HI> we &s;hould have made a Saving Bargain of it? <HI>Our God ha's Humbled us!</HI></P>
<P>Is it not a very <HI>Humbling</HI> Thing, That we &s;hould have had &s;everal fair <HI>Opportunities,</HI> to have brought this <HI>War</HI> unto a <HI>Final Period,</HI> but we &s;hould &s;till by &s;ome <HI>fatal Over&s;ight</HI> let Slip tho&s;e <HI>Oppor|tunities? Our God ha's Humbled us.</HI></P>
<P>Is it not a very <HI>Humling</HI> Thing, That whatever <HI>Expeditions</HI> we have undertaken, for the mo&s;t part we have come off <HI>Loo&s;ers,</HI> and indeed but plunged our &s;elves into <HI>deeper Straits,</HI> by our <HI>Undertakings? Our God ha's Humbled us!</HI></P>
<P>Is it not a very <HI>Humbling</HI> Thing, That more than One or Two of our <HI>Forts</HI> have been Sur|rendred,
<PB N="236" REF="119"> and one of them that was almo&s;t Im|pregnable, given away with a mo&s;t <HI>Shameful Sur|render,</HI> by one that hath &s;ince Received Some|thing of what he De&s;erved? Thus, <HI>Our God ha's Humbled us.</HI></P>
<P>Is it not a very <HI>Humbling</HI> Thing, That we &s;hould have <HI>Evil pur&s;uing of us</HI> at &s;uch a rate, that in other Lands afar off, and on the <HI>Exchange</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> Strangers have made this Reflection, <HI>Doubtle&s;s,</HI> New-England <HI>is a Countrey in Ill Terms with Heaven?</HI> But &s;o, <HI>Our God has Humbled us.</HI></P>
<P>What &s;hall I &s;ay? Is it not a very <HI>Humbling</HI> Thing, That when <HI>Peace</HI> is Re&s;tored unto the whole <HI>Engli&s;h Nation,</HI> and when <HI>Peace</HI> is Enjoy'd by all <HI>America,</HI> poor <HI>New-England</HI> &s;hould be the <HI>Only Land</HI> &s;till Embroil'd in <HI>War?</HI> But thus, <HI>Our God, Thou ha&s;t Humbled us, and &s;hown us great and &s;ore Troubles, and brought us down into the Depths of the Earth.</HI></P>
<P>O my dear People; How can I <HI>Ob&s;erve the&s;e Things,</HI> and not like <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> now <HI>fall to the Earth on my Face before the Lord,</HI> and &s;ay, <HI>What &s;hall I &s;ay?</HI> But if you will <HI>wi&s;ely ob&s;erve the&s;e Things,</HI> you will now <HI>get up, and Sanctify your &s;elves,</HI> and <HI>put away the accur&s;ed thing from among you,</HI> O New-Engli&s;h <HI>I&s;rael!</HI></P>
<P>Certainly, The <HI>High and Lofty One,</HI> who <HI>dwells in the High and Holy place,</HI> Expects that we &s;hould be a very <HI>Humbled People.</HI> I be&s;eech you, Sirs, <HI>Ob&s;erving the&s;e Things,</HI> let us in all the Methods
<PB N="237" REF="119"> of Repentance <HI>Humble our &s;elves under the Mighty Hand of God.</HI> After &s;uch <HI>Humbling</HI> Things, as have befallen us, God forbid, that it &s;hould be &s;aid of us, as in Jer. 44.10. <HI>They are not Humbled, even unto this Day!</HI></P>
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<P><HI>VIII.</HI> In the WAR that hath been upon us, <HI>Who&s;o is Wi&s;e, may Ob&s;erve</HI> the <HI>Compa&s;&s;ions</HI> of God, wonderfully Exerci&s;ed, and Manife&s;ted, and Magnified, in the mid&s;t of our <HI>Confu&s;ions.</HI> There was a Time, when a <HI>Bu&s;h Burned with Fire, and yet the Bu&s;h was not con&s;umed:</HI> whereupon &s;aid <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> in Exod. 3.3. <HI>I will now Turn a&s;ide and &s;ee this Great Sight!</HI> Sirs, I am now to call upon you, <HI>O Turn a&s;ide, and &s;ee &s;uch a Great Sight as that!</HI></P>
<P>Indeed, in the mid&s;t of all our <HI>Lamentations,</HI> we mu&s;t own, with the Church, in Lam. 3:22. <HI>It is of the Lords Mercies, that we are not Con&s;umed, becau&s;e His Compa&s;&s;ions fail not.</HI> But there are ma|ny Particular and A&s;toni&s;hing <HI>Articles</HI> of <HI>Mercy,</HI> which we have &s;een in this Tedious <HI>War.</HI> Sirs, Come now to <HI>Ob&s;erve</HI> &s;ome of tho&s;e Things, with prepared <HI>Hallelujahs!</HI></P>
<P>It was the Petition, in Hab. 3.2. <HI>O Lord, In Wrath Remember Mercy. New England,</HI> Thy God hath heard this Petition for thee, in very wonderful In&s;tances!</P>
<P>For, Fir&s;t, After a very Amazing manner ha's <HI>Mercy</HI> been <HI>Remembred</HI> in the mid&s;t of <HI>Wrath,</HI>
<PB N="238" REF="120"> when we have been Re&s;cued by the <HI>Mercy</HI> of God, at the very point of our being el&s;e Ruined by <HI>His Wrath.</HI> Lord, <HI>Thou ha&s;t &s;hewed thy People hard Things, and made us Drink the Wine of A&s;to|ni&s;hment.</HI> But our <HI>Extremity</HI> hath been Gods <HI>Opportunity,</HI> to Relieve us. Several Times in the late years of our Affliction, we have been brought unto a di&s;mal <HI>Non-plus</HI> in our Affayrs, and we would &s;carce imagine it po&s;&s;ible for us to &s;ub&s;i&s;t any longer. But ju&s;t <HI>Then!</HI> the Bowels of our Compa&s;&s;ionate God have been moved for us; He hath &s;aid, <HI>How &s;hall I give thee up, O</HI> New-England? <HI>How &s;hall I give thee up,</HI> O Ma&s;&s;achu&s;etts? And &s;o, He would not <HI>Execute upon us the Fiercene&s;s of His Anger,</HI> but with &s;ome unexpected Succours from the <HI>Machin of Heaven</HI> He hath Relieved us. We have &s;everal times been, Like a Little Ve&s;&s;el in a <HI>Storm;</HI> the Swelling Waves have Da&s;hed, &amp; Ra|ged, and Roared; the Rude Billows have been going over us, and we have been ready to <HI>Sink.</HI> But ju&s;t <HI>Then!</HI> Our Compa&s;&s;ionate Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, hath <HI>Awaked</HI> for our Safety, and mar|vellou&s;ly calmed our Circum&s;tances. O thou Land, &s;trangely Saved by the Lord, &s;ay now, as in P&s;al. 136.23. <HI>O Give thanks unto the Lord, who Remembred us in our Low E&s;tate, becau&s;e His Mer|cy Endureth for ever.</HI> When our <HI>Debts</HI> have be|come In&s;upportable, God has then <HI>Remembred us in our Low E&s;tate, becau&s;e His Mercy Endureth
<PB N="239" REF="120"> for ever,</HI> and &s;trangely Extricated us. When our <HI>Foes</HI> have been as an <HI>Overflowing Scourge,</HI> like to carry all before them, God has then <HI>Remembred us in our Low E&s;tate, becau&s;e His Mercy Endureth for ever,</HI> and &s;trangely Lifted up a Standard a|gain&s;t them. When fearful <HI>Divi&s;ions</HI> have ari&s;en among us, and horrid <HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> have been rea|dy to pull all to pieces,&mdash;I don't care to <HI>Remem|ber</HI> them, any farther than to &s;ay, God has then, <HI>Remembred us in our Low Estate, becau&s;e His Mer|cy Endureth fer ever,</HI> and &s;trangely healed tho&s;e <HI>Breaches,</HI> that &s;et the Land a <HI>Trembling.</HI></P>
<P>Moreover; It hath been a very <HI>Strange Thing,</HI> and a Wondrous <HI>Remembrance</HI> of <HI>Mercy</HI> in the mid&s;t of <HI>Wrath;</HI> That the <HI>Indians</HI> have been <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">naccountably Re&s;trained,</HI> from giving us, an Hun|dredth part of the Trouble, which they might have done, had they but <HI>known,</HI> or <HI>us'd</HI> their own Advantages. This One Thing, Who&s;oever does <HI>wi&s;ely Ob&s;erve</HI> it, mu&s;t needs a&s;cribe it unto a Special Operation of that God, who <HI>Forms the Spirit of man within him.</HI> It was the promi&s;e of God, unto His people, Exod. 34.24. <HI>No man &s;hall De&s;ire thy Land, when thou &s;halt go up to ap|pear before the Lord thy God.</HI> The Faithful God &s;trangely. Fulfilled this promi&s;e, for many Hun|dreds of years together; <HI>No Enemy de&s;ired the Land</HI> of that people, at the Time of their going up to Wor&s;hip the Lord in His Temple. And whereas, the <HI>Roman Enemy,</HI> did at length <HI>De&s;ire
<PB N="240" REF="121"> their Land,</HI> at the Time of their going up to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;over,</HI> this one Thing, was enough to prove, that the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah</HI> was come, and the <HI>Pa&s;&s;over</HI> no longer commanded. It &s;hows, That there is a <HI>Strange Operation</HI> of God, upon the <HI>minds</HI> of men, to curb and check, and blind the <HI>Evil-min|ded.</HI> Well; We have had our <HI>Frontier Towns,</HI> in many of which, the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t hath been Wor&s;hipped, and Sought, and Serv'd con|tinually. Had the Lurking <HI>Enemy</HI> done as they might have done, how ea&s;ily might one dozen of them, have kept the Towns in &s;uch perpetu|al and perplexing <HI>Alarms,</HI> as would have cau&s;ed them, even to have broken up! And what <HI>un|known mi&s;chiefs</HI> might a few more of 'em, have brought upon our Scattered Plantations! I do again, and again &s;ay, This is from the <HI>Strange Operation</HI> of God, upon the <HI>Minds</HI> of the Ene|my, that they have no more <HI>Di&s;turbed our Land.</HI> For my own part, I will <HI>ob&s;erve</HI> it, and <HI>Admire</HI> it, in &s;uch Terms as <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> u&s;ed upon a Remar|kable Providence; <HI>Qui&s;quis non videt, Caecus; Qui&s;quis videt, nec Laudat, Ingratus; Quisquis Laudanti reluctatur, In&s;anus:</HI> They are <HI>Blind,</HI> and <HI>Mad,</HI> that are In&s;en&s;ible of it!</P>
<P>Yet again, Have not our <HI>Engli&s;h Pri&s;oners</HI> been favoured with &s;uch a <HI>Remembrance of Mer|cy,</HI> in the <HI>mid&s;t of Wrath,</HI> as ought never to be <HI>Forgotten?</HI> The <HI>Mercy</HI> of God, inclined the <HI>French</HI> to Buy 'em out of the Hands of the
<PB N="241" REF="121"> <HI>Indians,</HI> and u&s;e them with an Exemplary Hu|manity and Civility. The <HI>Mercy</HI> of God pre|&s;erved many of them alive, under prodigious and incredible Hard&s;hips, and at length Return|ed many &s;cores of them Home. And may not our <HI>Engli&s;h Women,</HI> that were <HI>Pri&s;oners,</HI> take No|tice of one Singular <HI>Mercy</HI> &s;hown by God unto them, in pre&s;erving them from Violations by the <HI>Outrageous Lu&s;ts</HI> of the Salvages? This <HI>One Thing</HI> will be thought by &s;ome, almo&s;t as Great and Strange an In&s;tance of an Immediate Interpo&s;ition of the <HI>Angels</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> as the muzzling of the Lions in the Den of <HI>Daniel! O ye Redeemed of the Lord, you, whom He hath Redeemed from the Hand of the Enemy; Give Thanks, to the Lord, for He is Good?</HI> Charge your own Souls, That you <HI>never forget His Benefits;</HI> Ask your own Souls, What you <HI>&s;hall render to the Lord for all His Benefits:</HI> and <HI>Remember</HI> that Admonition of the Lord Je|&s;us Chri&s;t unto you, <HI>Sin no more, Le&s;t a wor&s;t thing do come unto thee.</HI></P>
<P>Furthermore; Who could not &s;ee <HI>Mercy Re|membred,</HI> in the mid&s;t of <HI>Wrath,</HI> when God hath put it into the Hearts of His people in the <HI>Southern</HI> parts of the Countrey, to make <HI>Liberal Contributions</HI> of <HI>Money,</HI> and <HI>Corn,</HI> and <HI>Men,</HI> for the Relief of the <HI>Northern</HI> parts? More than once, has the Noble <HI>Charity,</HI> of our Brethren in <HI>Plymouth,</HI> and in <HI>Connecticut,</HI> as well as of this
<PB N="242" REF="122"> Town, been Expre&s;&s;ed in &s;uch <HI>Contributions.</HI> Their <HI>Alms</HI> are <HI>Gone up for a Memorial before the Lord!</HI> The <HI>Ble&s;&s;ing</HI> of many that have been <HI>Ready to peri&s;h,</HI> hath come upon you, <HI>O ye Merci|ful Children of God,</HI> and you &s;hall <HI>obtain mercy</HI> from Him.</P>
<P>Once more: Was ever <HI>Mercy Remembred</HI> in the mid&s;t of <HI>Wrath,</HI> more con&s;picuou&s;ly than when powerful <HI>Adver&s;aries</HI> De&s;igning Inroads upon us, have been Diverted wonderfully. Ad|vice hath been &s;ea&s;onably Di&s;patched unto us, of the Intentions in our Enemies to fall upon our Frontiers, and this <HI>Advice</HI> hath proved our <HI>Safety.</HI> Yea, &s;ometimes when we have had no <HI>Advice,</HI> a Strange Direction from Heaven has Led us to tho&s;e Actions, which have as much defeated the Intentions of our Enemies, as if we had Received the fulle&s;t <HI>Advice</HI> in the world: Be&s;ides this, <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> and <HI>Salem,</HI> and <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> e&s;pecially: Will they ever forget the <HI>La&s;t year?</HI> It was a <HI>Year of Salvations;</HI> yea, It was a <HI>Year of Miracles!</HI> Never, Never &s;uch a <HI>Year</HI> pa&s;&s;ed o|ver us. The Almighty &s;how'd that Favour to His people of old, <HI>Zech.</HI> 9.8. <HI>I will Encamp a|bout my Hou&s;e, becau&s;e of the Army, becau&s;e of him that pa&s;&s;eth by, and becau&s;e of him that Returneth. Alexander</HI> in an Expedition to the <HI>Southward</HI> did <HI>pa&s;s by</HI> the Land of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and he did <HI>Return</HI> a|gain to the <HI>Northward,</HI> without Hurting that Land, that had the <HI>Hou&s;e of God</HI> in it. Formida|ble
<PB N="243" REF="122"> <HI>French</HI> Squadrons, have more than once <HI>pa&s;|&s;ed by,</HI> to the <HI>Southward,</HI> and have <HI>Returned</HI> again to the <HI>Northward,</HI> intending doubtle&s;s a <HI>De&s;troy|ing Vi&s;it</HI> into this Land by the way; but Our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t hath <HI>Encamped about His Hou&s;e here, becau&s;e of the Navy.</HI> Yea, once, O <HI>New-England, the Lord thy God,</HI> He that would be the <HI>Holy One of</HI> New-England, gave <HI>Carthagena</HI> for thy <HI>Ran&s;ome,</HI> He <HI>gave men for thee, and</HI> Spani|ards <HI>for thy Life.</HI> Another Time, when a <HI>Force</HI> likely enough to have carried all before them, were almo&s;t arrived unto us, we are advi&s;ed, that God &s;ent &s;uch a &s;udden, and &s;uch a wa&s;ting <HI>Sickne&s;s</HI> among them, as to make them for want of Hands, to de&s;i&s;t from their Attempt. The&s;e were Illu&s;trious <HI>Deliverances!</HI> And yet give me leave to &s;ay, We did the la&s;t year, &s;ee another <HI>Deliverance,</HI> that for ought I know, may be aequal to any of the re&s;t. There was an <HI>Engli&s;h Fleet</HI> of our Good Friends with a direful Plague a|board 'em, intending <HI>Hither.</HI> Had they <HI>Come,</HI> as they intended, what an horrible De&s;olation had cut us off, Let the De&s;olate places that &s;ome of you have &s;een in the Colonies of the <HI>South,</HI> declare unto us; And that they did <HI>not come,</HI> it was the Signal <HI>Hand of Heaven,</HI> by which the <HI>Goings of men are ordered.</HI></P>
<P>In Fine; Becau&s;e God, <HI>being full of Compa&s;&s;ion,</HI> would not <HI>Stir up all His Wrath,</HI> He hath <HI>Re|membred Mercy</HI> to us, in the mid&s;t of <HI>Wrath,</HI> by
<PB N="244" REF="123"> Rai&s;ing us up Generous <HI>Benefactors,</HI> who have been able and willing to oblige us, with their <HI>Benefits.</HI> It mu&s;t be with &s;hame acknowledged, Our U&s;age of our <HI>Publick Servants</HI> has common|ly been &s;uch, that for any <HI>Thinking man,</HI> to be willing at all to <HI>Serve</HI> the <HI>Publick,</HI> &s;eems to be a Mark and Fruit of no little <HI>Genero&s;ity.</HI> Never|thele&s;s, we have had per&s;ons of Exemplary <HI>Pa|tience,</HI> and <HI>Prudence,</HI> and <HI>Self denial,</HI> Sitting at the <HI>Helm</HI> of our <HI>Government,</HI> all this while that the <HI>Horrible Tempe&s;t</HI> hath been enough to make any man living <HI>Sick</HI> of being there. We have had per&s;ons, who have Disbur&s;ed and Expended of their <HI>E&s;tates,</HI> and con&s;iderably Damnified their <HI>Intere&s;ts</HI> for us, in our Di&s;tre&s;&s;es, when yet they foreknew what <HI>pay</HI> they &s;hould have after all. Yea, we have had, and &s;till have, [I can at this moment fa&s;ten my Eye upon &s;ome of them, in the A&s;&s;embly where I am now &s;peaking,] <HI>Brave men,</HI> who have <HI>Bravely Jeoparded their Lives in the High places of the Field,</HI> for our Defence. O Treat 'em not with <HI>vile Ingrati|tude,</HI> after all the Service they have done: <HI>Prefer</HI> them on all fit occa&s;ions, while they Live, <HI>Embalm</HI> their Memories, and <HI>Requite</HI> their Families, when they are Dead. But while we are Thankful to <HI>Them,</HI> Let us much more give Thanks to <HI>God</HI> for Them, even, for &s;uch <HI>Gifts</HI> of Heaven as we have Enjoy|ed in them.</P>
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<P>Well; Will you <HI>Wi&s;ely Ob&s;erve</HI> the&s;e Things? <HI>Wi&s;ely!</HI> That is to &s;ay, <HI>Thankfully,</HI> and <HI>Fruit|fully.</HI> It may be, If more Di&s;tinct and Solemn THANKSGIVINGS, were made unto <HI>God our Saviour,</HI> for the&s;e things, the <HI>Reliques</HI> of our Enemies would quickly feel the Rebukes of God upon them; not unlike tho&s;e, in 2 Chron. 20.22. <HI>When they began to Sing and to Prai&s;e, the Lord &s;et Ambu&s;hments again&s;t</HI> their Enemies, <HI>and they were Smitten.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>IX.</HI> In the WAR that hath been upon us, <HI>Who&s;o is Wi&s;e, may Ob&s;erve</HI> tho&s;e things, that may Mightily Encourage our <HI>Prayer,</HI> and our <HI>Faith,</HI> for a Total Ruine, to be ha&s;tened on the <HI>Re|mainders</HI> of our <HI>Enemies.</HI></P>
<P>There yet <HI>Remains</HI> a Knot of our Enemies, in tho&s;e <HI>Inacce&s;&s;ible Thickets,</HI> where we De&s;pair ever to <HI>Find 'em out;</HI> but I will Read their Doom, from P&s;al. 21.8, 9, 10 <HI>Thine Hand,</HI> O Lord, <HI>&s;hall Find out all thine Enemies, Thy Right Hand &s;hall Find out th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e that Hate thee; The Lord &s;hall Swallow them up in His Wrath, and the Fire &s;hall Devour them; Their Fruit &s;halt thou De&s;troy from the Earth, and their Seed from among the Children of men.</HI> What <HI>Remains</HI> for <HI>Us,</HI> is, That we do by <HI>Prayer</HI> and <HI>Faith,</HI> put our Enemies over, into tho&s;e Omnipotent <HI>Hands,</HI> that can <HI>Find them out,</HI> and cut them off. Oh! Let us keep our <HI>Hands Lifted up in Prayer,</HI> for a Total Di&s;&s;ipation of
<PB N="246" REF="124"> tho&s;e <HI>Amalekites,</HI> which have thus long and thus far prevailed again&s;t us! We have already had many Notable <HI>An&s;wers of Prayer,</HI> in this our <HI>War:</HI> Every one of our <HI>Deliverances</HI> have been very No|tably <HI>Such!</HI> We cannot &s;ay, How many particular Per&s;ons, have Received <HI>An&s;wers of Prayer,</HI> in the particular Troubles, which this <HI>Evil Time</HI> hath <HI>En&s;nared</HI> them withal. Doubtle&s;s, many a <HI>Christian,</HI> ha's in this Time, had opportunity to &s;ay, <HI>This poor man cryed, and the Lord Heard him, and Saved him out of all his Troubles!</HI> And &s;everal Towns, that have had a <HI>Remarkable Protection</HI> of God upon them, in this long Time of <HI>Danger,</HI> they have had a <HI>Praying People</HI> in them, and that <HI>Praying People</HI> have been the <HI>Chariots and the Hor&s;e men</HI> thereof. Why el&s;e does <HI>Deerfield</HI> Stand? How &s;hould our <HI>Prayer</HI> be <HI>Quickened</HI> by &s;uch Ex|periences! But there is this further <HI>Quickening</HI> for it, That with the Cry of our <HI>Prayer,</HI> there will go up unto the Lord, the Cry of <HI>Blood;</HI> much Innocent, &amp; Righteous, &amp; Precious <HI>Blood,</HI> Cryes to Heaven, from the Ground again&s;t tho&s;e <HI>Bloody</HI> and <HI>Crafty</HI> men, that have Treacherou&s;ly &s;hed it. Certainly, They mu&s;t not <HI>Live out all their Dayes!</HI> And we have this prevailing plea again&s;t them, in the <HI>Court of Heaven!</HI> That they have mo&s;t Fal&s;ely Broken their <HI>Covenants,</HI> in their <HI>Outrages.</HI> We may venture, to pre&s;ent our <HI>Me|morials,</HI> in the <HI>Court of Heaven,</HI> again&s;t the&s;e <HI>Co|venant Breakers,</HI> who are <HI>Implacable and Unmer|ciful;</HI>
<PB N="247" REF="124"> and we may u&s;e the words of <HI>Jephtah,</HI> again&s;t his Heathen Adver&s;aries, <HI>The Lord the Judge, be Judge between us and them!</HI> We may u&s;e the words of <HI>Jeho&s;haphat</HI> again&s;t his Heathen Adver&s;aries, <HI>O our God, wilt thou not Judge them? Vladi&s;laus,</HI> the King of <HI>Hungary,</HI> Scandalou&s;ly breaking his League, with <HI>Amurath</HI> the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Emperour, brought an Army into the Field a|gain&s;t him. The <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Army being horribly Broke, and Slain, and almo&s;t Vanqui&s;hed by the <HI>Hungarian, Amurath</HI> in his Angui&s;h, took out of his Bo&s;ome, the written League, that <HI>Vladi &s;laus</HI> had made with him, and holding it up in his Hands, with his Eyes to Heaven, he Cryed out, <HI>Behold, O Crucified Chri&s;t, the League which thy Chri&s;tians in thy Name have made with me, and now without cau&s;e do Violate; If thou be a God, Re|venge the Wrong that is now done unto thy Name, and &s;hew thy power upon a Perjurious People, who in their Deeds Deny their God!</HI> Immediately the Cour&s;e of the Battel turn'd; and Perjurious King was kill'd; and the Turks w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n a mo&s;t unex|pected Victory. Truly we may in like manner now take the In&s;trument of the <HI>Submi&s;&s;ion</HI> and <HI>Agreement</HI> of the <HI>Ea&s;tern Indians,</HI> which Thirteen of their Chief Commanders did Sign more than Five years ago; and Holding it up to Heaven, we may Cry out, <HI>Ah, Lord God of Truth, wilt thou not be Revenged upon the Fal&s;e Wretches that have broken this League!</HI> Doubtle&s;s, our God will
<PB N="248" REF="125"> Execute a dreadful <HI>Vengeance</HI> upon them, if we Humbly make our Suit unto Him for it; and He ha's wayes for His <HI>Vengeance</HI> to come at them, which <HI>We</HI> cannot Imagine. 'Tis affirm|ed, That &s;everal Times in this <HI>War,</HI> our <HI>Enemies,</HI> have in the Woods met with Parties of <HI>Indians,</HI> which were their <HI>own Friends,</HI> but by a mi&s;take apprehending each to be Enemies unto each o|ther, they have hotly fallen upon one another, and many have been kill'd oh both Sides before the mi&s;take was di&s;covered. Yea, 'Tis affirmed, that not a few of the Chief <HI>Murderers</HI> among our <HI>Enemies,</HI> have accidentally killed them&s;elves; the mo&s;t Murderous <HI>Indians,</HI> have in a little while been their own Executioners. Who can tell, what <HI>Strange Wayes,</HI> the God <HI>unto whom Vengeance belongeth,</HI> hath to inflict it, on a Generation of His <HI>Cur&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>Only, Let us Remember to plead the <HI>Sacrifice of our Lord</HI> JESUS CHRIST, in our <HI>Prayer,</HI> with our <HI>Faith,</HI> for the <HI>Perfection</HI> of our <HI>De|liverance.</HI> Our Lord JESUS CHRIST, hath been a <HI>Sin-Offering for the Congregation,</HI> and a <HI>Sacrifice</HI> pleadeable, not only for <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> but al&s;o for <HI>Peoples</HI> that belong unto Him. We read in 1 Sam. 7.9, 10. <HI>Samuel Offered a Burnt-Offering wholly unto the Lord, and Samuel Cryed unto the Lord of I&s;rael, and the Lord heard him; and the Lord Thundred with a Great Thunder on that Day upon the Phili&s;tines, and di&s;comfited them.</HI>
<PB N="249" REF="125"> When we Cry to the Lord, Let us plead the <HI>Burnt-Offering</HI> of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, &amp; plead, That God ha's more Glorifyed His <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> in the Sufferings of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, than if our Hou&s;es were all Fill'd with the Cryes of our People Ma&s;&s;acred by <HI>Indian</HI> Sal|vages. <HI>Then</HI> will our God <HI>Thunder with a Great Thunder</HI> of His Con&s;uming Wrath upon our <HI>Indian Phili&s;tines!</HI> That Note, which the Great <HI>Calvin</HI> ha's above an Hundred Times over, in his Commentaries on the P&s;alms, <HI>Nunquam Irritas fore preces,</HI> Or, <HI>Prayers will never be lo&s;t! Prayers will never he lo&s;t!</HI> It will much oftner be Repeated in our Ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Experience,</HI> if our <HI>Prayers</HI> do pre&s;ent before God that Ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Sa|crifice,</HI> of which He &s;ayes, <HI>'Tis a Sweet odour to Me!</HI></P>
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<P><HI>X.</HI> In the WAR that hath been upon us, <HI>Who&s;o is Wi&s;e, may Ob&s;erve</HI> tho&s;e Loud Calls to a <HI>Reformation</HI> of our <HI>Mi&s;carriages,</HI> which 'tis a Dangerous and a De&s;perate thing to neglect any longer. It was the Voice of the Ble&s;&s;ed God, in P&s;al. 81.13, 14. <HI>O That my People had hearkened unto me, and I&s;rael had walked in my wayes! I &s;hould &s;oon have Subdued their Enemies, and turned my Hand again&s;t their Adver&s;aries.</HI> Ah, <HI>New-England;</HI> Thy God hath not <HI>&s;oon Sub|dued thine Enemies, nor &s;oon turned His Hand again&s;t thine Adver&s;aries:</HI> but let 'em Vex thee for <HI>Ten years</HI>
<PB N="250" REF="126"> together. Surely, Thou ha&s;t not <HI>hearkened unto Him,</HI> nor <HI>Walked in His Wayes!</HI> In that which was called, <HI>The Holy War,</HI> the Emba&s;&s;adors of a <HI>Saracen Prince,</HI> demanded of a Famous Chri&s;tian General, How he came to have, <HI>Manus tam Doctas ad Praeliandum, Hands</HI> that were &s;o Able to <HI>Fight?</HI> The Chri&s;tian General replied, <HI>Quia Manus Semper habui puras,</HI> Becau&s;e I never de|filed my <HI>Hands,</HI> with any <HI>Notorious Wickedne&s;s.</HI> Alas, our <HI>Hands</HI> have made but poor work at <HI>Fighting.</HI> 'Tis Time for us, then to <HI>Reform</HI> all the <HI>Notorious Wickedne&s;s</HI> in our <HI>Hands!</HI> Do we Dream that the Almighty hath &s;pent all His <HI>Arrows?</HI> No, after, all that for <HI>Ten years</HI> to|gether have been &s;pent upon, us there are yet more <HI>Arrows,</HI> and <HI>Judgments</HI> left in the Quiver of God: And Except we <HI>Turn</HI> unto Him, who can &s;ay, What <HI>Arrows</HI> He may next ordain again&s;t us? The Roman Emperour Upbraided his General <HI>Terentius,</HI> for Loo&s;ing a Battel; but the General, having too much occa&s;ion to &s;ay &s;o much, replyed, <HI>Sir, I mu&s;t tell you, that it is you that Lost the Day for us, by your open Fighting against the God of Heaven as you do.</HI> If it be asked, How 'tis come to pa&s;s, that we have Sped &s;o Ill in many a Battel, &s;ince this <HI>War</HI> began? Some will blame one, and &s;ome will blame another: but I will take Leave to tell all them that Lead an
<PB N="251" REF="126"> Ungodly Life, <HI>Syrs, 'Tis to you, that we owe all our Ill Succe&s;s!</HI> I need not quote one of the Ancients, namely, <HI>Ambro&s;e,</HI> for that <HI>Ob&s;ervation, Graviores Inimici &s;unt mores pravi, quam Ho&s;tes Infen&s;i:</HI> We have had enough in our own Ex|periments to convince us, <HI>That our wor&s;t Enemies are our Vices, which provoke Heaven to Chasti&s;e us with all our other Enemies:</HI> And indeed, If our <HI>Wayes did plea&s;e the Lord, our Enemies would be at peace with us. Ob&s;erve wi&s;ely,</HI> and you cannot but <HI>Ob&s;erve,</HI> the Language of Heaven, in the Circum&s;tances thro' which we have pa&s;&s;ed for a whole <HI>Decad</HI> of years together, to be That, in Lev. 26.23, 24. <HI>If ye will not be Reformed by me, by the&s;e things, but will walk contrary unto me, Then will I al&s;o walk contrary unto you, and I will puni&s;h you yet &s;even Times for your Sins.</HI> And that the Demand of REFORMATION may be Loud enough, it arrives to us now with a more than Ordinary Accent of <HI>Authority</HI> upon it. We have &s;een, and, Ble&s;&s;ed be God, that we have &s;een, the Greate&s;t Monarch that ever Sat upon the <HI>Briti&s;h Throne,</HI> I&s;&s;uing Out His Royal <HI>Proclamation,</HI> upon the Pious Addre&s;s of the Commons of <HI>England,</HI> a&s;&s;emble in <HI>Par|liament;</HI> a <HI>Proclamation,</HI> wherein that Illu&s;trious Prince declares His Royal <HI>Re&s;olution</HI> to Di&s;coun|tenance all <HI>Vice</HI> what&s;oever, and requires all <HI>Of|ficers</HI> what&s;oever to be vigilant, in the Di&s;cove|ry, Pro&s;ecution, and Puni&s;hment thereof. We
<PB N="252" REF="127"> have &s;een a mo&s;t Excellent GOVERNOUR, who is the Greate&s;t Per&s;on that ever &s;et Foot on the Engli&s;h Continent of <HI>America,</HI> beginning His Government, with proclaiming for the Sup|pre&s;&s;ion of all Vice in One of His Provinces: That Noble Per&s;on has therein done, Like a <HI>Vicegerent</HI> of GOD! His very Honourable <HI>Lieutenant,</HI> hath worthily done His part, with the Advice of His <HI>Council,</HI> in another of His Provinces. If the&s;e things prove but meer <HI>For|malities,</HI> among a people, <HI>Hating to be Reformed</HI> after all, what will they be, but more Terrible Progno&s;ticks of Tremendous and Amazing De|&s;olations at hand, than &s;o many <HI>Blazing Stars</HI> on Fire, in Heaven over us. It is to be hoped, the <HI>Ministers</HI> of the Go&s;pel, will do what be|longs to Them, for the A&s;&s;i&s;tence of all <HI>Holy E&s;&s;ayes</HI> about <HI>Reformation;</HI> and their <HI>Churches,</HI> if call'd upon, will join with them, in the Me|thods of <HI>Covenant,</HI> and of <HI>Di&s;cipline,</HI> for the pro|moting of it. Yea, It is to be Hoped, That we &s;hall all <HI>Zealou&s;ly</HI> in our &s;everal Stations, do all that we can, for the plea&s;ing of God, and for the Correction, and Suppre&s;&s;ion, and <HI>Refor|mation</HI> of the Sin that may be di&s;plea&s;ing to Him. It is a Thing very notorious unto us, That <HI>Idlene&s;s, Drunkenne&s;s, Uncleanne&s;s, Cheating, Lying, Profane Swearing,</HI> and above all, that which is the <HI>Root</HI> of all, the <HI>Profanation of the
<PB N="253" REF="127"> Lords-Day,</HI> gains ground upon us. Let all that have any <HI>Power</HI> in their Hands, unto the utmo&s;t of their <HI>power,</HI> Endeavour to keep under tho&s;e Enormities. But <HI>La&s;t</HI> of all, Nay, I &s;hould ra|ther &s;ay, <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> of all, O let every man &s;et upon <HI>Self-Reformation,</HI> with all his might! I Remem|ber, that pa&s;&s;age, in Prov. 18.17. <HI>He that is fir&s;t in his own Cau&s;e, &s;eemeth right,</HI> is tran&s;lated by the <HI>Vulgar Latin,</HI> &s;o as to carry a further, and an u&s;eful Admonition in it; <HI>Ju&s;tus primus est Accu&s;ator &s;ui,</HI> A <HI>Ju&s;t man,</HI> before he meddles with the <HI>Reproof</HI> of others, will <HI>fir&s;t Accu&s;e</HI> him|&s;elf, and &s;earch the State of his own Soul, and Life, and faithfully <HI>Reform</HI> it. Oh! That very much of This might be done among us! How doth an Army of Thrice Ten Thou&s;and men, pre&s;ently <HI>Turn</HI> from <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> to <HI>We&s;t,</HI> becau&s;e <HI>Every One Turns One?</HI> Syrs, We have <HI>Wi&s;ely Ob&s;erved</HI> the Things that have in our Afflicted years be|fallen us, and we have now to good purpo&s;e heard a Sermon of <HI>Ob&s;ervations</HI> upon tho&s;e things, if we will now Retire, and ponder &s;eri|ou&s;ly with our &s;elves, <HI>What is there ami&s;s, in my own Heart, and in my own Life, and in my own Family and by what Reformation of my &s;elf may I be&s;t an&s;wer the Expectation of the God, who has Cha|&s;ti&s;ed us all?</HI></P>
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<P>We have been under the <HI>Lamentable Puni&s;h|ments</HI> of our Sins, for two <HI>Lu&s;tres</HI> of <HI>years</HI> toge|ther; 'Tis time for <HI>every man,</HI> and for all of us, as <HI>one man,</HI> to &s;ay, as in Lam. 3.40. <HI>Let us Search and Try our Wayes, and Turn again unto the Lord.</HI></P>
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<P>REader, <HI>Carthagena</HI> was of the mind, that unto tho&s;e <HI>Three Things,</HI> which the Ancients held Impo&s;&s;ible, there &s;hould be added this <HI>Fourth;</HI> To find a Book Printed without <HI>Errata's.</HI> It &s;eems the Hands of <HI>Briareus,</HI> and the Eyes of <HI>Argus</HI> will not prevent them. I take Notice of a few in this Book; and tho&s;e few are Scarce worth having any Notice taken of them. <HI>e. g.</HI></P>
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