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Show 'Lament our Gradual Degeneracy fr9m that ' Life and Power of Godlinefs that was m them, t and the many provoking Evils that arc amongfi: <!D.ol) a- ' us, which have moved our ~od feverc!y to nainft ' wicnefs againfr us, more than 10 our firft tune~, t!}ena. ' by 1is Leiler Judgments go!ng before, and h1s ' Greater Judgments followJOg after; he !hot In Leffer 'offllt.sWarniug-Pieces firft,buthlsMurthenng- l.;: Great er · r. h · ]ul),- ' heces have come. after them; m IO muc as In g ' thefe Calamitous times, the Changes of Wars of lllent£S. , Ettrope have hod filCh a malignant ll:fluence .u?on ' us in fi rmrica that we are at this day gt eatly Brough£' diminiil1ed, an'ct brought low, throtJgh IDpp~e[- lo\l.t. ' fion, Affliction and Sor.row~ c. M. Book I. p. 2 7. c. I .. For now more than 2Dfa, ' Twenty Years, the B~afting St.rokes of Heaven llittg. ' upou the fccular Affairs of tlus Country, l1avc ' been fuch as rather to abate than enlarge th.e Etl:a{CJ. 'growth of it. P. 29. _c. I. The ma~y CalamLUiitit£ S. ' ties11 which have ever hnce been wafhn& of the ' Country, have fo nipt the Growth of It, t~at ·' its liitter Progrefs hath hel~ I~Q proportion · 'with what was from the beg1nnmg. __,__ Th~ 'Calamities that have carried off the Inhabitants f. of our feveral Towns, have not been all of on~ ' ·fort· nor have all our· Towns had an equal. ~efli- ' fhar~ in any fort· Peftileritial Sicknefies have lrntial ,. made fearful Hav~ck in divers plac;es, where ~ich- ' the Sourid perhaps have not been enongh to ~fftS:S. ' tend the Sick, while others . have not had one ' touch from thilt Angel· of Death ; and the bb.lOtb. ' Sword path cut off S.core~, in fundry place$, ' when others it may be 4aVf:! not loft a M~n ' by that Avenger. P. 31. c. 2 . Th~r~ have b~en feveral Ye.ars, .famin • .l wherein the 1 ernble Famme hath terqbly · ' fl:ared the Town in the Face.-The Ange~s of ' Death hath often Q1ot th~ Ar~·ovy$ of D~~th ' ' · · · ' mto • r ...,. ( 19) ) ' :into the n}idll: ot the Town; the Smaii-Pox ~lttrtll .. , has, efpec1all y four times, been a great Plague 1~ upon lls.-Never was any Town under the 'f"'o~. ; Cope of. Heaven more liable to be laid in A~es, either through the Carelefnefs or- Jffttiiw : W1ckednefs_ of them that fleep in it. P. 32 . 'c. l: Ten times have the Fire t made notable tThis Rmns among us, and. our good Servant been Anfwer - ~ almoft our Mafter. to G. wtl .. P. ~8. c. I. 'Ah Eoflon, thou haft feen thefon,s Pro' Vamty of a~l \V ?rldly Poffeffions; one fatal ih~fie, P·· : M_ormng,wh1ch laid Fourfcore of thy Dwelling- 9 • "Hou[es, and Seventy ?f thy Ware-Houfes iu Jl\.ufn ... a rmnous heap, not Nineteen Years ago gave « ' h d . . fi , cu ... t ee to rea Jt In 1ery Characters· and an l!1tap 'hu~e ~leett of thy Veffels, which th~y would · "malt~, lf.they were altogether, that have mif- lLOf!S at 'earned In the. late War, has given thee to ~ea. ' read more of 1 t . . C .. 2. ffe tells how the Confuming Wrath of God u every Day on tke young Mm, faying, 'New- 0 England has ?een l1~e a tottering Houfe, the 'very Foundattons of Jt .have been lhaking; but 'the Houfe thus overfettmg by the Whirl-winds· c of the Wrath of God, ha!h been like Job,s ~ Houfe, It fa//; u~on the young Men~ and 3Joefittt-:1 ,. they t~re d~ttd; the ~Ifa.fters on our you.ng Folks ttion of 'have been fo mulc1pl1ed, that there are few t.btit "Parents among us, but what will go with !tfoung: 'wo~~ded. Hearts down unto .their Graves: S»}tn. 'Their daily Moans are, Ah my Son, tNt off in ' hu Touth ! My Son, my Son! Book V. p. 85 .. c. r. 'By Land, fome of the W~fri 'principal Grains, efpecially our \\'heat and our d al' Peafe, fell under an unaccountable Blaft, from ~~aft • which we are not even unto this day, deliver- (Jfa(f~ 'ed :. And befides that conftant Frown of Heaven ~upon our Husbandry r~cut·ring every Ye~r ; ." few· |