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Show ( 208 ) ' Hundred Indtam durft begin a War t!pon ait A Tho:t- ' thefe populous Colonies, an A~my of a Thoufcmd of.~' rand F.na-/ifl, raifed, mull nor kill one of rhem t hem mtlJ~ 1' 6 • I'· f f S ld" not kill ' all; bur mfiead rhereo , mor~ o our o ters One of a ' Perifh by Sicknefs and Hardfhtp, than we had Hundred ' Enemies in the World. Our God has humof the bz-, bled us. duns. ' Is ir nor a very h am bl.m g Th"m g, t h ar w I1 en ' the number of our Enemies afterwards en' creafed, yer an handful of the?J fl10uld, for fo ~e~~~~Y ' many Summers rogerher, connnue our emcon· their un- ' quered Spoylers, and put us to fuch vall Charges, conquer- ' rhat if we could have bought chem for an Hun· able ' drerl Pou11d ars Head, we fhould have made a Spoyrer • ~ faving Bargain of ir? ~ur ~od has humbled us. ' Is it not a very humbhng thmg, rhat we tbould • have had fever~l fair Opportunities to have ' brought this War unto a final Period, bur ~e ' fhould fiill, by fome fatal Over(igbt, ler 01p 'AI w.a. ys ' rhofe Opportunities ? Our .God. h.ru humbled t.ff. flit) the rr C.1.. 'Is ir nor a very humbhng thmg, char whar: fc1e;.u- ' ever Expeditions we have undertaken, for rhe ' mofi pare we have come off Loj'ers, and indeed ' bur plunged our felves inro deeper!Straits by our ' Undertakings? Our God bas humbled us.- ~ k'd ' Is it nor a very humbling Thing, that we in e~;t~er ' ihould have Evil pur{uing of ·w ar fuch a rate, Lands, as' lhat in or her Lands afar otf, and on the Exchange .,.<;ountry' in London, Strangers have made this RefleCtion, ln_l~ t1e;ms' Doubtle'i New-England i4 a CountrJ in iH Terms wlill -...ea- JJ r 1 ' bl d ven. · ' ' witb Heaven ? But 10 our Goa htt~ oam e us. · ,·What {hall I fay? Is it not a very humbling When o- ' thing, lhac when Peace is refiored un~o the t h·'r:. at ' whole E11gli[h Nation, and when Peace IS en~ Peace ' joyed by all Americt1, poor New-England lhould .~~~-in ' be the only Land fiill embroyl'd in War? Bur ' ,[hus, our God) thQ .l hal! 'htunbJed us; amf .' thewq t ( ~ 0 9 ) ~ ~e~n us ~reat and fore Troubles, and brougl1t , o~n mto the depth of rhe Eanh.- Bur if , you Wtll wf[ety obferve thefe tbinrrJ you will now get up d ; · n;~: b ' ( ~ cb ' a1t anc,~tpe JOU't' fe/•oeJ, and put a'lllOJ ' ~ .e a:cr.r[erl thing from among you : 0 New-Englij], , ~~ret ·'-Afrer fuch. bumblinf. Things as have be- Humbled, , en ~~, God forb1d that it tbould be fajd oflmt not u a 1 1 ~ · ' • 11 . er. 4-t· I~· They arc not bumbled, even ~nough_ unto tbrs Day. As n is m ch b d b d unto thl~ th J . u ro e ou re Day are. ~or, by their perlifiing in their Abufes ·" an RevJlmgs againfi the People of God to rhe urrermoll of their Power, to rhis vet y Day ~!a appear~· bY h I·S H'1l l ory, and other f·c urn.l 'o m ~ooks, rh~t he and orhers have wrirreri of larc times,. a gam(! the Truth and irs friends, whom rhef lld.l make rhe People of their Indignation, which JS no tign of any rrue Repenrance of rheir Mu~ders and Perfecurions. \ ~ow th~ ~ery that naturally arifes from aH rhefe P~em1fes, ts, \.Vhy New-Engl•nd fhould be fo Afflicted and Punitbed, as they have been more rhan orher Counrries, if rhey had nor pro: voked the Lo:d in a greater manner than many orh~r Countncs have done, in refpeCl: of Perfecution? Ler them nor think tu Excufe themfelves by. that in L_uke r,;. 1.. for that will not \ fer~e thetr rurns, J~afmuch as ic is plain, they ha\ e been greater Smners, in rhat refpect, than mofi, yea,rhan any called Prorefianrs,rhat I know of. Ler: them look upon aJl the Englijh Planrarioni round about them, and fee if they can find any Compare, as ro Perfecurion, or the J udgmenrs rhat have followed; I fay, rhar Ntw-England, above aU ochers, lhould be a Land of]udgmenr, and nor of !W~rcy,mult needs argue, that there is a Caufe for Jt, more rha~ ordinary : I doubt nor, bur moft gtbcrCouncnes a{e Guilry of o(herSins, as weU as them |