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Show You were ready enopgh to frame Mifchief by a Law againfr the Innocent, tor more th.m ten Years together, whi~h was a very fad and dark, and ~ormy time; io that there )¥as no pea•e to him tb:tt wwt out, or to him tbat ~·ame iu, there 117M fucb Vexation in tbe Land~MtOJOlf;; and therefore the Lamentation, and · Mourning, and Wo, is JuH: upon · you; and the l(gd of God thou telleft of (a little after) being t~Jflifted with, was for your ~ffiiEling the People of God with your Rods and Whips, which now is turning upon you ~ Judgme~t. Therefore R epent, and sk God forg ivenefs, that ynu may 6:1d. ~ercyo ( 204) ~ were.-In the imla~ that hath been upon ' us, Whofo is wife may objerve., a Work, a ' jlra11ge Work of Heaven, as it were devi(ing ' of way~ very firangely, ro difirefs all fons ' of People, in all forts of Imerefis. Truly ' the very Character of our Calamity harh ' all along been this, rhe great God has ' wrirren fiill upon ir; we may read upon ' ir in a very legible Character, rhofe ' w'ords in Jer. J 8. 1 r. 1 hus J:zith the ~ord, ' Behold, I frame Evil agai1t.ft you, 1 .devife a ~ device again.(t .JOU ; ir harh been .as tf ways ' had been deliberarely and exqutlirely fiu. ' died and as if wirh much Conrrivance ' plor:ed~ for to bring us all within rhe ' Rea'h of .rhe Geperal Calamiry : W t have ' now Ianguifhed rhro' Ten Years, which ' have been ·rhe faddelt, and rhe darkefi, an,d ' th~ fiormieft Years rhat ever we faw: If ' rhe Hillary of rhefe Ten Years were to be ' wrirren, I am rhinking what fhould be rhe ' Tirle; rruly ic might be Imituled, as Ez.,e~ ~ 1!-iel's Roll was, Lamentation, and il-1ourning, ' and Wo · yea, you lhall now have the Hi. ' fiory of rhefe Ten Years wrircen for you, ' 1'11 give ic you in as expreffive words as can ' be, even in rhofe words, 2 Chro~." ~ 5. 5 ,6. ' In thofe times there WtJJ no Peace to hzm that f went out, tJcr to him rhat came in ; but great ' Vexations were upon aiJ tbc Inhabitants of the ' Countries, for God did vex t~em with ali Ad4 ' v4rjity, &c. See more in the Book afore4 faid, p. 183. Ibid.c.1. 'TruiJ! the Ten Years of our War ' have fer many Ten Hundreds of Perfons a " mourning over rheir dead Friends, we t llave fe~p eve{y whe~·~ ~he Mournets Po - 'abot!~ ( "205 ' ,f a~our ~he Streets.-I fay, nothing of that am a~ ·: zmg time, :Vhen the Evil Angels in a prerernar ual and In an unparaltell" d manner be- ,' ing ler loofe amo~g us, God call up~n us ~lll!tt rhe .fierc~nefs of his Anger, and Wrath, and of <lBol) .. ' IndtgnatiOn, and Trouble,--for our Apo- ' fiacy ( -rhe very ·sin of the Evil Spirirs.) The " God. of Heaven a while a-go turned in the A-rmies. e~f ' A~mtes o~ Hell upon us ; and in that matchlefs He.ll turn ' D1fpenfar10n of God we underwent a birrer eel m u11on ,, Dt'uflr U~nt.i· On fir om the ' Poyfon of rhe S·e rpenrs of Mtheilmch iaenfsd ' the D~ft. Bur there are other poinrs nor a few, hea 1 1ed. ' ·wherem the Grear God ·hath heaped Mifchiefs , upon us, and fulfiWd .unro us, .thar holy Com- ,( mi~arion, Ezek. 7· 26. Mi{chief {hall come ttpon .t. Mijcbief: What fhall I fay, while the Lord of ' Hofis hath been againft us ? l'he l{ofls of the 'Lord have been fo roo, aU the Elemeqrs 'have, ' as it were, been up in Arms againll us. P. I' 3. c. L 'Again you may obferve, thar the . , 'Harvett hath once and again gricvou{]y failed in t)~~lldt ·' thefe Years, and we have been firuck thro' with at ~. 'the terrible Famine.-The very Courfe of Na- Jfa- ,. cure hath been alrered among us; a Jamenrable ntint: 'Cry, for ·Bread, Bread, harh been hear.d in ~tp fo~ 'ourSrreers; the Towns thar former-ly fupply'd 25lfCJti.'"' £ orher places with Grain, had now been famifh- ·' ' .ed, if mher places had nor fem in a fupply ro J:them; and · had a black ProfpeCl: of bting fa- ' mifhed nocwithfianding rhac fupply : Once iLofn at ' more you may obferve, rhac rhe Sea harh, in. ~ta. 'rhefe Years, been fwallowing up our Neigh- ' bours, and their Efiares, far more chan · rhe ' Sword of the Wildernefs.-~o pan of [he E11- Eerond. 'g.ti{h Nario? harh been more fre~uendy or.fen- ct!Je.t_ei I iJb!y prey d upon by· rne Fre~cb, chan what . '-,path l70ll~ qur of New-EnglnnJ, ever fmce the , X x 4 'War |