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<DATE>2014-08-13</DATE>
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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140532.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<FIGDESC>bare-chested woman holding a bow and arrow, with a speech bubble</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>SIGILLVM : GVB : ET : SOCIET : DE : MATTACHVSETS : BAY : IN : NOVA : ANGLIA</HEAD>
<Q>COME : OVER : AND : HELP : VS</Q>
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<HEAD>At A CO&V;NCIL, Held at Charlestown, June the <HI>20th, 1676.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_The holy God having by a long and Continued Series of his Afflictive di&s;pen&s;ations in &amp; by the pre&s;ent Warr with the Heathen Natives of this Land, written and brought to pa&s;s bitter things again&s;t his own Covenant people in this wilderne&s;s, yet &s;o that we evidently di&s;cern that in the midst of his judge|ments he hath remembred mercy, having remembred his Foot|stool in the day of his &s;ore di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t us for our &s;ins, with many &s;ingular Intimations of his Fatherly Compa&s;&s;ion, and regard: re&s;erving many of our Towns from De&s;olation Threatned, and attempted by the Enemy, and giving us e&s;pe|cially of late with our Confederates many &s;ignal Advantages again&s;t them, without &s;uch Di&s;advantage to our &s;elves as for|merly we have been &s;en&s;ible of, if it be of the Lords mercies that we are not con&s;umed, It certainly be&s;peaks our po&s;itive Thankfulne&s;s, when our Enemies are in any mea&s;ure disap|pointed or destroyed: and fearing the Lord &s;hould take notice under &s;o many Intimations of his returning mercy, we &s;hould be found an In&s;en&s;ible people, as not &s;tanding before him with Thanksgiving, as well as lading him with our Complaints in the time of pre&s;&s;ing Afflictions:</P>
<P><HI>The</HI> CO&V;NCIL <HI>have thought meet to appoint and &s;et apart the 29th. day of this In|&s;tant</HI> Iune, <HI>as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and prai&s;e to God for &s;uch his goodne&s;s and Fa|vour, many Particulars of which mercy might be In&s;tanced, but we doubt not tho&s;e who are &s;en&s;ible of Gods Afflictions, have been as diligent to e&s;py him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us as a People offering prai&s;e and thereby glorifying him; The</HI> Coun|cil <HI>doth Commend it to the</HI> Re&s;pective Mini&s;ters, Elders <HI>and people of this Juri&s;diction; Solemnly and &s;eriou&s;ly to keep the &s;ame. Be&s;eeching that being per&s;waded by the mercies of God we may all, even this whole people offer up our Bodies and Souls as a living and Ac|ceptable Service unto God by Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By the Council, Edward Raw&s;on Secr.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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