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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65574	New-England's present sufferings under their cruel neighbouring Indians represented in two letters lately written from Boston to London.	Wharton, Edward, d. 1678.	1675 (1675)	Wing W1536; ESTC R12188	4,268	10

and so it 's supposed they destroytd the other also I this day heard of one whom they were three days torturing to death so it plainly appears New-Englands unparalel'd day is now come upon themselves Divers of the Priests I heard gathered together to consider what might be the cause that the Hand of the Lord is thus stretched forth against them and one of them said there seems to be a thick Cloud between the Lord and our Prayers and the Lord goes not forth with our Forces but on the very days that we Fast and Pray before the Lord do our Enemies give us the greatest overthrows and the last time we Fasted we had the greatest slaughter and some confessed that the greatest cause might be in the Priests but they would not all agree to that so Babylon was and is divided One of their Priests on a Fast day took his Text out of the 44th Psalm beginning at the 9th Verse and read to the 14th but Preached on the 9th But thou hast cast off and put us to shame and goest not forth with our Armies Verse 10. Thou makest us to turn back from the Enemy and they which hat us spoil us for themselves Verse 11. Thou hast given us like Sheep appointed for Meat and hast scattered us among the Heathen Verse 12. Thou sellest thy People for nought and dost not encrease thy Wealth by their Peace Verse 13. Thou ●ak●st us a reproach to our Neighbours a scorn and a Division to them 〈◊〉 are round about us The Indians Insult very much over our English Forces Challenging them out to right you say say they you will kill all the Indians why come you not forth to fight Sometimes they watch the English and will not suffer them to bury their flain but force them to flee before them and then return and strip the flain naked and leave their Bodies to rot above ground now these things are come to pass as was foretold by our Friends the Servants of 〈◊〉 Lord. A few days since a Man who had gotten one of George Bishop's Books of Friends sufferings in New England and reading a saying there wherein he testified the days should shortly come that great Calamities should come upon that People and that their Young Men should fall by the Sword and Worms shall cover them and the Cup which they had filled to to others should be filled double to themselves This Man being press'd in Spirit went to the General Court then sitting with George Bishop's Book in his hand and came several Miles out of the Country he told them he could not have rest in his mind until he came to shew them that Book and he delivered it to them bidding them read such a place and consider if he was not a true Prophet from the Lord in what he had foretold and whether it was not now come to pass But they frowned hard upon him and examined him if he went to the Publique Worship or nay whereupon he demanded his Book again but went away without it Some of the Priests do endeavour to charm the minds of the People and to perswade them that the cause of these distresses fears and horrors that is come upon them in their lying down and rising up is for that the Magistrates do suffer the Quakers and other Hereticks to live amongst them but others of them tell the People in their Pulpits that the great cause of Gods sore displeasure against them is the guilt of innocent blood which from time to time hath been shed in the Land and father said that although the Lord had this Year taken away the Plague of Blasting the Wheat in the Field yet a greater Plague hath he brought in its room and if thus it doth continue greater Plagues than these are like to ensue the next Year even Pestilence and Famine with the Sword Great is the Policy and Wisdome the Natives do Act withal for they compass the out-sides and weakest Towns in the Country and gather the People and drives of them in heaps like Fishes before a Net and make them fly before them to the strongest Towns for Refuge and say they will drive them down to Boston and to two or three more of their strongest Towns where they for want shall starve and famish one another and at present if the Lord shew not mercy they seem as if they would destroy and roul up the rest of our Nation as a burdensome and menstruous Cloth and cast it out of their Land but blessed shall every one be that fears and follows the Lord with an upright heart for such he will make as a Wall of Brass and he will be their deliverer and their strong Tower henceforth and for ever more Amen Thy Friend in my measure in that which changeth not E. W. A Copy of the Inscription that was Ingraven over their Grave Although our Bodyes here in silent Earth do lie Yet are our Righteous Souls at Rest our Blood for Vengance cry THE END