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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50133	Humiliations follow'd with deliverances a brief discourse on the matter and method of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity accompanied and accommodated with a narrative of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives from the hands of cruel Indians and some improvement of that narrative : whereunto is added A narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Swarton, Hannah.	1697 (1697)	Wing M1116; ESTC R19464	26,849	74

able to bring my Fingers together to hold them fast yet under all these Hardships the Lord kept me from any Sickness or such Weakness as to disenable me from Travelling when they put us upon it My Indian Mistress was one that had been bred by the English at Black point and now Married to a Canada Indian turned Papist and she would say That had the English been as careful to instruct her in our Religion as the French were to instruct her in theirs she might have been of our Religion and she would say That God delivered us into their Hands to punish us for our Sins And This I knew was true as to my self And as I desired to consider of all my Sins for which the Lord did punish me so this Lay very heavy upon my Spirit many a Time that I had Left the Publick Worship and Ordinances of God where I formerly Lived viz. at Beverley to Remove to the North part of Casco-Bay where there was no Church or Minister of the Gospel and this we did for large Accommodations in the World thereby Exposing our Children to be bred Ignorantly like Indians and our selves to forget what we had been formerly instructed in and so we turned our Backs upon Gods Ordinances to get this Worlds Goods But now God hath stripped me of these things also so that I must Justify the Lord in all that has befallen me and acknowledge that He hath punished me less than my Iniquities deserved I was now Bereaved of Husband Children Friends Neighbours House Estate Bread Cloaths or Lodging suitable and my very Life did hang daily in Doubt being continually in danger of being killed by the Indians or pined to Death with Famine or tired to Death with hard Travelling or pinched with Cold till I dyed in the Winter season I was so amazed with many Troubles and hurried in my Spirit from one Exercise 〈◊〉 ●●other how to preserve my self in da●●●● and supply my s●lt in the want that was present that I had not time or leisure so composedly to consider of the great Concernments of my Soul as I should have done neither had I any Bible or Good Book to look into or Christian Friend to be my Counsellor in these Distresses But I may say The Words of God which I had formerly heard or read many of them came oft into my mind and kept me from perishing in my Afflictions As when they threatned to Kill me many times I often thought of the words of our Saviour to Pilate Joh. 19.11 Thou couldest have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above I knew they had no power to kill me but what the Lord gave them and I had many times Hope that the Lord would not suffer them to slay me but deliver me out of their Hands and in His Time I hoped return me to my Country again When they told me that my Eldest Son was killed by the Indians I thought of that in Jer. 33.8 I will cleanse them from all their Iniquities whereby they have sinned against me and I will pardon all their Iniquities I hoped though the Enemy had barbarously killed his Body yet that the Lord had Pardoned his Sins and that his Soul was safe When I thought upon my many Troubles I thought of Jobs complaint chap. 14 16 17. Thou numbrest my steps and watchest over my Sin my Transgression is sealed up in a Bag and thou sowest up my Iniquity This was for my Humiliation and put me upon Prayer to God for His Pardoning Mercy in Christ and I thought upon Davids complaint Psalm 13.1 2 and used it in my Prayers to the Lord How Long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever How long wilt thou hide thy face from me How long shall I take counsel in my Soul having sorrow in my Heart How long shall my Enemy be Exalted over me I sometimes bemoaned my self as Job chap. 19.9 10. He hath stripped me of my Glory and taken my Crown from my Head He hath destroyed me on every side and I am gone and my Hope hath he removed like a Tree Yet sometimes Encouraged from Job 22.27 Thou shalt make thy Prayer to him and He shall hear thee and thou shalt pay thy Vows I made my Vows to the Lord that I would give up my self to Him if He would accept me in Jesus Christ and pardon my Sins and I desired and endeavoured to Pay my Vows unto the Lord. I Pray'd to Him Remember not against me the Sins of my Youth and I besought Him Judge me O God and plead my cause against an Ungodly Nation deliver me from the Deceitful and Unjust man Why go I mourning because of the Oppression of the Enemy And by many other Scriptures that were brought to my Remembrance was I instructed directed and comforted I Travelled over steep and hideous Mountains one while and another while over Swamps and Thickets of Fallen Trees lying one two three foot from the ground which I have stepped on from one to another nigh a thousand in a day carrying a great Burden on my Back Yet I dreaded going to Canada to the French for fear lest I should be overcome by them to yield to their Religion which I had Vowed unto God That I would not do But the Extremity of my Sufferings were such that at length I was willing to go to preserve my Life And after many weary Journeys through Frost and Snow we came to Canada about the middle of February 1690. and Travelling over the River my Master pitch'd his Wigwam in sight of some French Houses Westward of us and then sent me to those Houses to beg Victuals for them which I did and found the French very kind to me giving me Beef and Pork and Bread which I had been without near nine months before so that now I found a great Change as to Diet. But the Snow being knee deep and my Legs and Hams very sore I found it very tedious to Travel and my sores bled so that as I Travelled I might be Tracked by my Blood that I left behind me on the Snow I asked leave to stay all Night with the French when I went to beg again which my Master consented unto and sent me Eastward to Houses which were toward Quebeck though then I knew it not So having begge● Provisions a● a French House and it being ma● night after I was Re●resh●d my s●l and had Food to ca●ry to the In●i●●s I sign sied as well as I could make the French Woman understand That I d●sir●d to stay by her Fire that Night Whereupon she laid a good Bed on the Floor and good Coverings for me and there I Lodged comfortably and the next Mornin● when I had breakfasted with the Family and the men kind were gone abroad as I was about to go to my Indian Master the French Woman stept out and left me alone in her House and I then staid her Return to give her thanks