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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>AT A <HI>COUNCIL</HI> Held at Boston, September the &s;eventeenth <HI>1675</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IT having plea&s;ed the <HI>HOLY GOD</HI> (all who&s;e works are Truth, and his wayes judgement) for our &s;ins whereby he hath been provoked, in &s;pecial by the under valuation of our plea&s;ant things; great unthankfulne&s;s for, and manifold abu&s;es of our wonderfull peace, and the ble&s;&s;ings of it in this good Land which the Lord-hath Given us; Ill enter|tainment of the Ministry of the precious Go&s;pel of Peace: leaving our fir&s;t Love, dealing fal&s;ly in the Co|venant of the Lord our God: the Apo&s;tacy of many from the Truth unto Here&s;ies, and pernicious Errours. Great Formality, Inordinate Affection, and &s;inful Conformity to this pre&s;ent evil vain World: and (be&s;ide many horrid and Scandalous Sins breaking forth among us, for which we have Cau&s;e to be greatly humbled before the Lord), our great un&s;en&s;iblene&s;s of the di&s;plea&s;ure of the Lord is &s;uffer|ing the&s;e abominations to be perpetrated, together with our Car<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">al Security, and unquietne&s;s under the Iudgements of God upon us, our abiding very much unreformed, notwithstanding all warnings, and Cha&s;ti&s;ements, whereby the Lord hath been, and is &s;till debating with us; we having greatly Incen&s;ed him to &s;tir up many Adver&s;aries again&s;t us, not only abroad, but al&s;o at our own doors, (Cau&s;ing the Heathen in this wilderne&s;s to be as thorns in our &s;ides, who have formerly been, and might &s;till b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> a wall unto us therein; and others al&s;o to become a Scourge unto us) the Lord him&s;elf al&s;o more Immediately afflicting us by di&s;ea&s;es whereof &s;o many Children in &s;ome of our Towns have di|ed this Summer. His not going forth with our Armies as in former times, but giving up many of our Brethren to the mouth of the devouring Sword, yea, &s;hewing him&s;elf angry with the Prayers of his people: threatning us al&s;o with <HI>Scarcity of Provi&s;ion</HI> and other <HI>Calamities,</HI> Especially if this pre&s;ent <HI>Warr</HI> with the barbarous <HI>Heathen</HI> &s;hould continue; And that the <HI>Lord of Ho&s;ts</HI> him&s;elfe withdraw not the Commi&s;&s;ion he hath given to the <HI>Sword</HI> and other <HI>Judgements</HI> to prevaile again&s;t us;</P>
<P><HI>The GOVERNOUR and COUNCIL of this Jurisdiction therefore</HI> (being under the Sen&s;e of the&s;e evils; and al&s;o of the distre&s;&s;ed &s;tate of the re&s;t of the <HI>Colonies Confederate</HI> with our &s;elves, and of the Churches of Christ in other parts of the Chri&s;tian World; in this day of trouble, rebukes, and Bla&s;|phemy: and fearing the &s;ad I&s;&s;ue thereof, unle&s;s the Lord help us with our whole heart, and not feignedly, to turn unto him&s;elf) <HI>Do Appoint and Order the &s;eventh day of the next Moneth; to be a day of publick Humiliation, with Fa&s;ting, and Prayer; throughout this whole Colony; that we may &s;et our &s;elves &s;incerely to &s;eek the Lord, rending our hearts, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> our Garments before him, and pur&s;e the &s;ame with a thorough Reformation of wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">, or is an Image of Jea|lou&s;ie before the Lord to offend the eyes of his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> Lord may turn from his fierce anger, that we peri&s;h not: We do there&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">tants of this Jurisdiction to fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">bear Servile Labour upon that day, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> re&s;pectively to ob&s;erve the &s;ame, as is Appointed.</HI></P>
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