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Show ( 496 ) .~ JSre confumeJ by tpine Anger; and ~r thy Wra~~ ~ ' a~·e · troubled; all our Dars ~tre pa./Jed awaf m tb1 ' Wratb: And I may add rhis unco ir, The WrtJth ' of the Devil too btU been troubling and [pending of.' t us all our Days: But what will beco~e of this ' poor New-England afrei· ap? Shall we fink, e?'· ' pire, perilh ?-!'mull confefs, rhat w}len I con• < fider rhe Iamenrable U nfruitfplnefs of Men ' among· 'us~and-cbe dedining Scare ?f the ' PClWd of Gndlinefs in our Churclles, wnh the ~ Jnbll }lqrr.iblc Indifpofirion that perhaps ever ' was· ro i·ccov~r ' ou~ P.f this De~lenfion; I can' nor bur fear, 1 l~ll 'it ~onie ro this, ·and left an ~ A(iatic Rempval of Candle~id~s ·cqme upon us.' P. 43~ ' 'fhere is ~n A~'ony produced in t~e· Mi~ds ' of· Mfh, · left the Devil ihould {ham us wHh ' . pevifes, of perhaps a Rner Thread rhan was ' ever yet pra8Hed upon rhe World.-Bielfed ' Lord, are all rhe other I'nfiruments of thy YenYou ' geai1Ce too good for ~he Chafiifement of f~~h o::ountcd ' Trarifgre~brs as we ~re ? Ivlutl the verf q~v~l~ the .QE4- ' be fem our of che1r own place, to Qe our iers the ' Troublers? Mull we be lathed with Scorpions, TroubJers ' ferch•d from the place of Torment'? Muft this <cO.f My.oIu ~yass ' Wt. lde' rne.rs. be made a Re~epta bl e .c. h D 10r t ~ ra .. Eook In:' gons of the Wildeniefs? ( P. 44·) But that P· IS 1. ~' New-F.nglmul '·1botlld rhis way ·be harra(fed, · lah!hed d' [hey an:: not Caldeans, thac biuer and ha{ly Na ... t em, an ' ~ b h b. d b .. D •t therefore tiOn ; ut t . ey are mer an urmng eVI s: nowonder • They are· not fwarthj b14ians; but th~y arefooty ;;ou fhould c Devils that are let loofe u·pon us : Ah! poor ~fe(ir~~1d " .New· E1tgland, mull the Plague of Old Egypt iafhect ' corne upon thee, whereof we read, Pfa.J. 78. 49· Jour fe1ves ' fie ca~ upon them the fi'ercenefs ~f his Anger, Wrath , anothC'r ' ~Zml Inrlignation, a;,d Troublt:1 by JencJi ,zg evil An .. v,·ay. ' gels mnongft Jhem. Whar, Oh what! mufr nex~ ' be looked for ? M¥Jft that which is · there nex ~ .. · · me~· ( .. 97 ) . 1 ' .mentioned be next encounrred, He fpareJ nol .' ·.their Soul from Death, but gav.e their Life l'rltr to ' the Pe(filence, &c. as mentioned, p. 2. r 2.. · ' 0 ! 'tis a defiled Land whe'rein we live; let P. 4S· ' us he humbled for rhefe defiling Abominations, ' I'eft we be driven our of our Land ( w'ith more, mem.ioned p.t JO· and f1er~afrer, in the An(wer. · ' Alas, 0 Lord, my Fleili Trembles, becaufe ~fP. 46. ' thee; anp t am af1·ajQ of rhy Judgments.-Bu.c ' inafmuch as rlie Wrarh which we endure from ' ·rhe Enemy·~ wiJI allo:'# ps n~ Peace, we may be ~ fure our :Ways have nor plea fed the Lord ; ic i~ ' becaufe we have broken the Hedge of God·s t ln put .. ' p~eceprs ·r· that rhe Hedge of God·s Providence ting to . ~ 1s not fo intire as ir '4res ro be about us ; but Death hts ' Se rpenrs are b'm ·n ·g of 'u s. People. .~ The very Devils are walking about our Streets P. 48. ' with Iengthned Chainsf, making a dreadful t You ' No~fe in our Ears, and Brimfione, even without would not t. a Metaphor, is making a hellitb and horrible let the 'S rene h.m four N o an ' J s.- ·r·ts no w0n d er t lu r t h e Jw0a.zlkk ers ' fiery Serpents are fo flinging of us, we have there, but ~ been a moll murmuring ·r Generarion.-Never Imprifon ' were the Offers of rbe Gofpel more freely reo - and Chail\ 1 d . d b r 1 d r · r d them and . , • te , or more a1e y e1p11e among any Pc:o thereke , pi ~ ~nder the whole Cope of Heaven, rhan in 'tis juft , rh1s Ne1v- Engla~d. S~ems it ar all marvt pous ~1?o~ yo~, , ~nto us, chat the Devtl [hould gee fuch footing 1~ evllS?1 .- lO our Country? Why, cis becaufe the Saviour ntsd~o,at~- ' ha s ·be en ·n·J g h re d he re, perhaps more '·t han anr choisr fmolg- I) ' where; rhe blelfed Lord Jefus Chrifr has been lowing : profcrin& w us, Grace, an~ Gl~ry, and ~very words*· "g?od Thmg, and *been allurmg o~ u~ ~o· af,Cept ~:r~h~r· r: h1m. ( P. 49·) lf we refufe htm t·~at fpeaks ing. : frq~ Hc:aven, rhen he thac comes from Hell : d·oes wiLh a fo~t of Clai!n fet in, ;.fnd cry our: . ~ord, ~nee th1s Wrerch JS nor wi!Hng char rhou " ,. " .. ' thould~ , |