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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>At a Council held at Bo&s;ton, March <HI>10. 1668.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Governour and Magi&s;trates being a&s;&s;embled in Council, and in &s;ome mea&s;ure &s;en&s;ible of the many tokens of the Lords di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t the cutting &s;hort the Fruits of the Earth for &s;undry years pa&s;t, and otherwi&s;e bringing us low more then formerly; together with the many provoking Evils that do abound among us, to the great di&s;honour of God, and our Profe&s;&s;ion of his holy Name, and that notwith&s;tanding all means u&s;ed for to reclaim the &s;ame, which being in conjunction with &s;undry other things that are among us, threatning yet more di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t us, if the compa&s;&s;ions of our tender hearted and long-&s;uffering God do not timely prevent: Do therefore commend to all the Inhabitants of this Colony the Twenty fifth day of this in&s;tant to be kept a Publick Day of Hu|miliation, and &s;pent in Fa&s;ting and Prayer to the Lord for pardon of whatever have been, or is provoking to his holy eyes, and that he will be plea&s;ed to give unto us, from the greate&s;t to the lea&s;t, truely to Repent of all our &s;ins, and to reform the &s;ame; and that tho&s;e uncomfortable Breaches made in &s;everal Societies may be again repaired, and we may obtain his favourable Pre|&s;ence with us this following year, and his ble&s;&s;ing upon our pre|&s;ent Seed-time, that &s;o it may appear that the Lords anger is turned away from us, and that he is yet in our <HI>Zion,</HI> ruling in the mid&s;t of us, uniting the hearts of his poor people to do all his plea&s;ure, and nothing el&s;e. Al&s;o the pre&s;ent low E&s;tate of the Churches of Chri&s;t in <HI>Europe,</HI> and e&s;pecially in our dear Native Country, is to be humbly pre&s;ented before the Lord.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By the Council, <HI>Edward Raw&s;on</HI> Secret.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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