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Show ( 200 ): c' moft ungratefullr refus' d ; but of tl1is R~fuft~-l, ' w11at Evem have we feen ? Truly a very Ter' rible Event. Book VII. p. 47. c. 2. 'Heaven ~aw more ~Iiloti '"Blood mull: be drawn from the Colomes, before atttJ ' Health could be reftored to them-unril ®!Cit ' the Flame of War was Raging all over the aU Ol.ltt'' wh(ol·e Maj]achufet-Colony. p: 51. c.1. ' They firipp1d thefe unhappy + As you ' Prifoners, and caufed them· to run the ll~'ct to Whip ' Gantlet and whipped them after a cruel thehG_!luketrh~ ; ' and bldody manner t; they then threw per aps, 1s d . ff C i~ · another ' hoc A fhes upon them; an curnng o ol. homct Stroke ' lops of their Flefh, they put Fire inro rbeir <1r Oharafter ' Wounds, and fo with exquifite, Jeifurely,. of a]Ltdgment ' horrible Tormems, roafied them our of Wonderful Degeneracy , which almoft ditcoutaged h·m · from writing his 'Biftory, and t he Calami .. ties which . have followed. ' the World. \ P. 5-6. c. 1. ' Bur it mult, after all, be con. ' fe.lfed, rhac we have had one Enemy more ' Pernicious co us chan all the refi, and rhat ' is our o7JJn backfliding Heart, which has ' plunged rhe whole Country into fo won' derful a Degeneracy, char I have fome' times been diicouraged from writing the 'Churcn-Hifiory of rhe Country. --And ' fi'nce this Degeneracy has. obcained fo much ' among us, rhe Wrath of Heaven has raifed. "' up againfi us a fucceffion of other Adver. '' faries, and Calamities, which have cafi the. ' Land into great Confufions, to refcue us ,, from which, the jealous Kindnefs of Heal& full- ' ven has not made fuch quick Defcenrs as in ~ltf~ of' former times-God knows what will be 11r.auen ' the End. \i-Jitb- P. ·, o6. c. '· ' That the Judgtnenrs of God, ~el~ ' under which we have been Languifhing. ' foli Ten Years together, 2re a fon of a ~· B1Jot" t B. ook · · ( 201 ' , '. PUt t~to our Hands, a Book indeed The Judg· , ~1.1 _wrnren m Blood ; a Book yec full of ments of God, ' lVtne Leffons for us; C. 2. In rhis War a bloody we have feen rhe fruitful Land f I Book, yet ' one whole ~rovince d ho a. rnofi full of diyine t C . ' an anor er whole Leffons; m ounr;y, turned znto Barrenneft • doubtlefi which it's ' noc Wlthouc Provocation" of u1 L .J .r. . s Well if they ' t he m w ho u. 1w e ll therein. (P r rr ZCK.eane1 s zn 1 0 ) wou d read, ' I mull herewirhal fay' c" 7· be. I. and and learn to ' k f , ome, ehold the P.epent • . Wor so the Lord what Defol . h ' has made in that Land -The aGnodns e 0 d , ' f Jd 1 · a atcens a ara s , o ~ . were. ot~ tO have any rhin of Caf~apply'd, Chnft m thetr Coafi ; and anon c g as fultable to ' Roman War, which difirelf'd all rheomLes da ~h~J?, for ~e.: ' b h fi 1 T an ' Je~.ung Chnft , uc r e Wo u own of Gadara was the and his Ser.: , very ~dl Town befieged in rhar War, and vants~ fad thmgs were done umo ir.~I would Behold ! ari ' never have told you, that fome young M horrible ' twenty Years Old, in chis Land nev efcn, thing, young ' h 1 d ' er 0 Men of twen· '~uc as _one: 1eal~ rh~ Name of Chrift ty Years Old m all their Ltves, tf I dtd not rhink th never heard ' lhe God of Heaven required us all at of Chrift; ' Mourn before him for fuch a horrible th. co What is ali 'in rhe Land. mg their Preten..: 8 · ces to Chrift P. I o · c. I . ' The Sword by which w arid Chriftia.;· : have • been fo Grievoufly harralfed, bath nity come to? t been tn rhe Hands of God ; and if our But if they Father had noc been very Angry would had let the 'he ha ve ra ke n a Sword into his ' Hand ~akers a~ ~ lone, tl;ey ; We are Blind before Lightning, we a~-~ would have , Deaf unto Thunder, If we do noc fenfi- heard ~fhiW:, t bly perceive the Anger of God in rhe :~e~~te~ :d1 ' Tremendous Rebukes rhac we ha~e fulfer- ... -' ed ; .and we are unaccountably and inexcllfably , Sruptd, If .we do noc Enquire what means the , H~at ?f th1s Anger : It was once rhe Cmu- . tthnat~on of God) in Ez.ek. 7• 2.4, 17. 1 ·mi~ X~ '?. • ~ brin,: |