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Show ( 206 ) t War b~gan; I fay, has this been enough ? No~ And that ' the Wrarh of God faid, This i& not enough. I 10 e- ' Appeal co you thar have be en 0 wner_s o fV _e f - nongh. ' ~- Is, or Sailors in rhem, w h er h er Ho rn bl e Sh tp- ' . wracks have nor been multiplied fince the War ' began.--Ah, Lord ! how many o~ us have ' tned Rivers of Tears over our dead Fnends, rhac ' have been buried-in the Ocean. Moreover, you )"3u1 ~ thhat ' may ob(erve rhar in rhefe Years, rhofe very ~v 11c ' • c Jhould be' rbings which were mrended for _our De1ence, forth ir ' have ofc:encimes been fo much 1mproved for Def~ncc, ' om,: Damage, that ir was hard for us ro fay~ rur~~ dDro ' which was rhe Grearer, rhe Defence, or the Da-the! r ,t- . d fi l I l mage, as.i ' mage whtch we ha rom r 1em. c was a amen- 'twas with ' table rime wirh the J-e,vs, when rhar Curfe the Jews. ' came upon them, That 'lvhich fhould have been 'for their Welfare, Let it become a 1~·ap, and po~r out ,. thine Indignation upon them. Tn:ly rhe IndJgn~' rion of God hath been poured our upon us Hl ' rhis Fruir of rhe Curfe, no Icfs frequemly rban ' fenfibly.--Finally, you may ooferve what ' untimely Ends, and what furp_riz.,ing Fates, have Father's ' come upon our S01u~ in rhefe Years of the Wrath burying ' of the right Hand ~f the moft H~gb. ~- 2.. Truly,_ t heir Sons' Sirs our rime of War has, m vanous ways ot i.I~ the ' Mo;raliry be~n imbirrered wi[h rbis Remark, -,me of ' b · h · fl h ;h w ' Tbe Fathers have · been urymg t ezr Sons ~ t e ~· e · ar. ' Country over · many o f us have h ad our S ons, ' even rhofe v'ery Sons, of whom we faid,_ This ' fame ihall Comfon us ; we have had them vic' Iemly fnatch'd away from us, and cropp'd in ' the very Flower of rheir Youth, and_ rhey have " lefr us deploring, 01 ! ~y Son, wtth all my t Hearr cou!d I have dyed for thee, my Son, my ~Son.-- - ' Thus in our long War we have feen rhofe ~ Chan&es on all Hands, and in all ~iqds, which · S ha~e ( 207 ) hav_e · wirnelfed againfi us rhe dreadful Indig- L0ng War ' nanon of God.-And a wife Obfervarion ofwitn ts. ' thefe chings will caufe you to fee That the thc_Incli?/ ,' wu.ar r w hz ·c h ha tl~ be en upon ' na t10n ot rti hath been a 1-Vtzr of God. Gorl : The Ind,_ans h~ve been but a fmall parr ,a ijillae : of rhof~. ~rmres whtc~ rhe Greac God hath of <!Dobt~ been bnn~t ng om agamfi us for ten Yecr.s w~ gether; and we may conclude, thar all rhe ' Land have bt:tn more or lefs.concerned in rhofe All , C · c . l · t . m 0 rc nmes,_ 101 w 11Ct1 the Alm1ghry God harh or leis 'been WHh th t fc Jlrmies man~tging his Comro- Guilty. • vcrlie with us. ' 1P . hl 1b4 . c. I. ' Ah I N ew-Enuland, thy Father Th · F r. . . . 6 eir a .. 1~t e~n 1pH_(l~1g m £hy Face wirh moll hum- ther fpit-j ~ bhng Difpen(a [l(~ns_; God harh been bringing tin& in 'ofrhee down ro ftr w the Dufl:. when rhe War rhen·Face 'commenc' d , New-England migh' t fay, My God ' will humble me.--Should a Child of yours ' be Refractory, and you, Sir, fhould bid a Ne- You have 'gro, or an lnrlian-Slave, in your Haufe, Go, take bebenllv_ery ,' t h.a t Cb z'l d , lln d 1r_· courge h.t m ti.l l you fetch Blood of rCeh iel drlOeUnS~: hzm? Surely thIS would be co humble him unto tu rife u\11 ~ the uttermoft. Thus doth thy God humble thee, againft ' 0 New-England ! by purring thee over inro th~ s~·7i ' rhe vile Hands of thofe, which are not a People, ~~s ser1~ ' bur a foolifh Nation. Again, Who are rhty, vants~ ' by whofe means we are now crying our, 'We are brought very low ?--Jer. 37· Io.- ~ Truly we had Smitten the whole Army of the They hac\ ' Indians rhat fought againfi us, three and rwenty fin"tten_ ' Years ago, from one End of rhe Land unto rhe the I1ndz~ ' oc h er, on 1y rh ere were Je tcc. a f'e w 'J'o~mtled Mm aangso ohnagct ' among them, in rhe Ea.fl, and now they have they not' ' ~ife~ up, every Man, and have fer the whole bee~ re' Counrry on Fire; cenainly a more humbling fe~v d for, , Ma rrer cannot be re Ia n: d . Mo reover, 1. s 1.C nor aS crouurrt&h~e.r,t 'ft yery humbling t~1ing, thac when abom an · 'Hundrc;J |