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A96298	A thankefull remembrance of Gods mercy to several persons at Quabaug or Brookfield partly in a collection of providences about them, and gracious appearances for them: and partly in a sermon preached by Mr. Edward Bulkley, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Concord, upon a day of thanksgiving, kept by divers for their wonderfull deliverance there. Published by Capt. Thomas VVheeler. [Five lines from Psalms]	Wheeler, Thomas, ca. 1620-1676.; Bulkley, Edward, d. 1696.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1600; ESTC W35426	40,779	64

come to the house and understood though at first they knew not they were English who were in the house but thought that they might be Indians and therefore were ready to have shot at us till we discerning they were English by the Majors speaking I caused the Trumpet to be sounded that the said Captain Hutchinson my self and Company with the Towns Inhabitants were there but the Indians also discerned that there were some come to cur Assistance whereupon they spared not their shot but poured it out on them but through the Lords goodness though they stood not farr asunder one from another they killed not one man wounded only two of his Company and killed the Majors Sons horse after that we within the house perceived the Indians shooting so at them we hastened the Major and all his Company into the house as fast as we could and their horses into a little yard before the house where they wounded five other horses that night After they were come into the house to us the Enemies continued their shooting some Considerable time so that we may well say had not the Lord been on our side when these Cruel Heathens rose up against us they had then swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us But wherein they dealt proudly the Lord was above them When they saw their divers designes unsuccessful and their hopes therin disappointed they then fired the houss barne wherein they had before kept to lye in wait to surprize any coming to us that by the Light thereof they might the better direct their shot at us but no hurt was done thereby praised be the Lord. And not long after they burnt the Meeting house wherein their Fortifications were as also the Barne which belonged to our house and so perceiving more strength come to our Assistance they did as we suppose despaîr of effecting any more mischief against us And therefore the greatest part of them towards the breaking of the day August the fifth went away and left us and we were quiet from any further molestations by them and on that morning we went forth of the house without danger and so daily afterward only one man was wounded about two dayes after as he went out to look after horses by some few of them sculking thereabouts We cannot tell how many of them we killed in all that time but one that afteewards was taken confessed that there were killed and wounded about eighty men or more Blessed be the Lord God of our Salvation who kept us from being all a prey to their Teeth But before they went away they burnt all the Town except the house we kept in and another that was not then finished They also made great spoyle of the Cattel belonging to the Inhabitants and after our Entrance into the house and during the time of our Confinement there they either killed or drove away almost all the horses of our Company We Continued there both well and wounded towards a Fortnight and August the thirteenth Captain Hutchinson and my self with the most of those that had escaped without hurt and also some of the wounded came from thence my Son Thomas and some other wounded men came not from thence being not then able to endure Travel so farr as we were from the next Town till about a Fortnight after We came to Marlborough on August the Fourteenth where Captain Hutchinson being not recovered of his wound before his coming from Brookfield and overtyred with his long Journy by Reason of his weakness quickly after grew worse and more dangerously ill and on the nineteenth day of the said moneth dyed and was there the day after buried the Lord being pleased to deny him a return to his own habitation and his near Relations at Boston though he was come the greatest part of his Journy thitherward The Inhabitants of the Town also not long after men women and Children removed safely with what they had left to several places either where they had lived before their planting or sitting down there or where they had Relations to receive and entertain them The Honoured Major Willard stayed at Brookfield some weeks after our coming away there being several Companies of Souldiers sent up thither and to Hadly and the Towns thereabouts which are about Thirty Miles from Brookfield whither also the Major went for a time upon the Service of the Country in the present warr and from whence there being need of his presence for the ordering of matters concerning his own Regiment and the safety of the Towns belonging to it he through Gods goodness and mercy returned in safety and health to his house and dear Relations at Groaton Thus I have Indeavoured to set down and declare both what the Lord did against us in the Loss of several persons Lifes and the wounding of others some of which wounds were very painful in dressing and long ere they were healed besides many dangers that we were in and fears that we were exercised with and also what great things he was pleased to do for us in frustrating their many Attempts and vouchsafing such a Deliverance to us The Lord avenge the Blood that hath been shed by these Heathen who hate us without a Cause though he be most Righteous in all that hath befallen there and in all other parts of the Country He help us to humble our selves before him and with our whole hearts to return to him and also to improve all his mercies which we still enioy that so his anger may cease towards us and he may be pleased either to make our Enemies at peace with us or more destroy them before us I tarried at Marlborough with Captain Hutchinson until his death and came home to Concord August the 21. though not throughly recovered of my wound and so did others that went with me But since I am Reasonable well though I have not the use of my hand and Arm as before My Son Thomas though in great hazard of Life for some time after his return to Concord yet is now very well Cured and his strength well restored Oh that we could praise the Lord for his great goodness towards us Praised be his Name that though he took away some of us yet was pleased to spare so many of us and adde unto our dayes He help us whose Souls he hath delivered from Death and Eyes from Tears and Feet from falling to walk before him in the Land of the Living till our great Change come and to sanctifie his Name in all his wayes about us that both our Afflictions and our mercies may quicken us to live more to his glory all our dayes THE SERNON Psal 116.12 What shall I Render unto the Lord for all his Benefits towards me THere is no Condition of men here below so good but there is need of duty There is none so bad as to be past duty In all Estates we must be doing no Providence exempts from duty yet several

He looked for sweet grapes good fruits These fruits are the good works required of us in our Conversation in duties of godliness Righteousness Lovs goodness and mercy which God hath ordeined that we should walk in them Ephes 2.10 This was the Apostles prayer for the Philippians Chap. 1.11 that they might be filled with the fruits of Righteousness c. and for the Colossians Chap. 1.10 that fruitful in every good work The Lord takes great pains with us in his house He is pruning of us by the Affictions he brings upon us that we might be more fruitful Ioh. 15.2 Bring forth the fruit of Ordinances and Providences the fruit of your dangers troubles fears and also of your Deliverances and Experiences of Gods help in the time of distress Live more to God less to your selves less to the world Labour to abound in the work of God doing good in all places to all with whom you Converse Do good in your Communication Col. 4.6 by your Example as the Thessolonians did 1 Thes 1 7. and the Corinthians 2 Cor 9 2. Their Zeal provoked very many Be fruitful Trees in Gods Vineyard both in word and deed doing good to all as you have occasion ministred to you provoking them to love and good works by beholding your forwardness in the wayes of Christ Jesus Mot. 1. Consider it is an honour to the glorious and blessed God when those that are his people are fruitful when the Trees that he hath planted are laden with good fruit when a vine is full of goodly Clusters It is a Credit to the Vine dresser when ground yields great Increase It is not only the profit but the honour of the Husbandman when Ewes bear Twins It is the Shepards honour and so when Christians are fruitful It is the honour and glory of God who is the Husbandman John 15.1 their Shepard Psal 23.1 The Lord accounts himself honoured John 15.8 Herein is my Father honoured c. Hereby others are stirred up to praise God Math. 5.16 2 Cor. 9.12 Phil. 1.11 They are by Jesus Christ to the praise and glory of God Let this quicken us to Fruitfulness For this is the great End of our Lives to bring glory to God the God of our Life This ought to be our highest End in all 1 Cor. 10.31 2. Fruitful Christians are the Lords delight They are Hephzibab his delight is in them They walk worthy of the Lord to all well pleasing Col. 1.10 The Lord promiseth to be as the Dew unto Israel and then his beauty should be as the Olive Tree and his smell as Lebanon Hos 14.5 6. The beauty of the Olive Tree is to be full of Olives such Christians are beautiful in Gods Eyes Lebanon was full of sweet Trees and fragrant Flowers and filled all the parts thereabouts with a sweet smel and so should Israel be a sweet savour to God when they brought forth good fruit to him The Philippians fruitfulness in well doing communicating to Paul was an odour of a sweet smell a Sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing to God Phil. 4.18 3. Fruitless Professors are near unto a Curse and in danger of being plucked up or cut down Math 21 19. Heb. 6.8 If we bring not forth fruits of mercies deliverances Ordinances Afflictions if barren under all the Curse may come and God say never fruit grow on you more yea God may cut us down by the Axe of his Judgements which he hath brought upon us Math. 3.10 Now God is laying the Axe if not to the Root yet he is lopping off many branches and therefore the more need to take heed of unfruitfulness The Jews were a fruitless Vine Christ layed the Axe to the Root of the Tree c. Luk. 13.7 Cut it down c. would we not be cut down and cast into the Fire let us be fruitful and that in due season 4. The End of Fruitfulness in Gods wayes is Everlasting Life and Blessedness Rom. 6 32. The good we do in Family Town Church being done in uprightness will turn to good Account in the great day of Christs appearance Phil. 4.17 All good fruit which we here bring forth is as Seed sown 2 Cor. 9.6 Prov. 11.30 It will yield great increase 1 Tim. 6.18 19. 2 Tim. 1.16 17 18. you would willingly have the Reward then do the work If you would have a good Crop in the Harvest day now be sowing and that not sparingly serve the Lord faithfully and diligently in duties of holiness Righte ousness Love kindness Bounty and all goodness 1 Cor. 15.8 knowing your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Labour to be more and more fruitful that your works may be more at the laft then at the first as Christ speaks of them Rev. 2.19 yea be fruitful in Age honouring God and adorning the Gospel in all things Psal 92.14 8. Make this Return to God for all his Benefits and the great deliverances received to make him your Trust and Confidence all your dayes Trust upon the Lord live in dependance upon him for further mercy and Salvation In Experience of what you have received from God rest upon him we need daily from God and the Lord gives out daily unto us let us act Faith daily upon God Make this use of Gods gracious appearance for you never to distrust him what ever your dangers and streights or distresses may be so it was with holy Paul 2 Cor. 1.10 who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us Be not overmuch Careful or fearful in these evil and troublesomedayes Be not sollicitous what you shall eat or what you shall drink or whire with you shall be clothed or how you shall be preserved Trust on the Lord Jehovah in whom is Everlasting strength Isai 26.4 the Lord provided for his people daily in the wilderness though they had no bread left in the Evening yet they had it near their doors in in the morning he was a shadow in the day time from the heat c. Isai 4.5 6. This was Davids Resolution having had such wonderful deliverances from all his Enemies he would still trust in God Psal 18.2 And therefore in his greatest fears there shall be his Considence that he will not fear what man can do to him Psal 56.3 4. He is and will be a Buckler to all those that trust in him Psal 18.30 It is a very ill Requital not to trust him by resting on his promises not to rely upon his wisdome power faithfulness when we have had much Experience of his Care Love Compassion and wonderful works for our good It is high Ingratitude Hence the Lord was so angry with Asa for sending to Benhadad for his help though there were other evils in it that he relyed not on God when God had given him such a glorious victory over that mighty Host of the Ethiopians 2 Chron. 16 8 9 Thereby he provoked God from that time

A Thankefull REMEMBRANCE OF GODS MERCY To several Persons at Quabaug or BROOKFIELD Partly in a Collection of Providences about them and Gracious Appearances for them And partly in a Sermon Preached By Mr. EDWARD BVLKLEY Pastor of the Church of Christ at Concord upon a day of Thanksgiving kept by divers for their Wonderfull Deliverance there Published by Capt. THOMAS VVHEELER Psal 107.8 Oh that men would Praise the Lord for his Goodness and his Wonderfull Works to the Children of men Psal 111.2 The Works of the LORD are great sought out of all those that Love him CAMBRIDGE Printed and Sold by Samuel Green 1676. The Preface Christian Reader I Purposing to Publish this ensuing Narrative of Gods Providence towards Capt. Hutchinson my felfe others the Sermon preached on the occasion hereafter expressed do Judge it expdient to give you a little further Account of matrers occasioning the going of Captain Hutchinson my fels to Quabaug and also of the Motives inducing me to the Publication of both to the world Philip the Sachem of the Wampanôgs lying about Mount-hope having done some Acts of Hostility against Plimouth Colony by murdering men burning Houses and killing Cattel the said Colony was necessitated to wart with him in their own defence The Massachusets and Connecticot Colonies being Confederate with them and discerning the Justness of the Warr on their part divers were sent forth of each Colony both Troopers and foot Souldiers to help our Brethren of that Colony against the said Sachem The Honoured Council of the Massachusets did also send Captain Hutchinson with a Guard to the Narroganset Suchems and Sagamores who were not farr from the said Philip to see whether they intended to continue their peace with us or to joyne with the Wampanôgs against us They promised to continue their peace with us which they gave further hopes that they would do by sending over more of their Sachems to our Council where they also promised to remain Faithful Friends to us Our much Honoured Governour and Council being desirous as farr as it might be to prevent shedding of blood and the strengthening of the Enemy by others joyning with them did also send Ephraim Curtis of Sudbury and others to several other Sachems in and about the Nipmuck Country to the same purpose they also promised Faithful Friendship to the English though they afterwards proved wretchedly perfidious and set a time wherein they would come to Boston further to engage themselves for the Councils satisfaction but they came not at the time appointed The Council sent the said Ephraim Curtis again to know the Reason thereof They again promised to come but did not The Honoured Council being willing to use all means to prevent a Wart with them if it might be and their Assistance of Philip and the rest then in Arms against us sent Captain Hutchinson thither also to Treat with them in order to the Preservation of peace between us and them they also appointed my self to Assist him with part of my Troop which accordingly I did attend We discerned by the Indians deserting the places of their Abode that they were afraid of us and therefore the better to effect our business in a peaceable way and prevent Hostility on either side before we marched all to them we sent three English men and oue Indian all four being men Familiarly acquainted with many of the Indians to let them understand that we only desired a Treaty in Reference to the Preservation of Peace with them and that we inrcnded no hurt at all to them but the Issue thereof was as in the Narrative is expressed Wherein the Providences of God towards us in his wares about us were so Remarkable in our sore Exercises and gracious Deliverances that they ought never to be forgotten by us but kept in Remembrance all our dayes the Lord hath made his wonderful works to be remembred saith the Psalmist and he would have his People to tell them to their Children that they might also declare them to their Children And therefore for the help of our memories and the preventing of mistakes in Reports and the Advantage of our own Relations and others better Acquaintance with the manner of Gods dealings with us I have endeavoured the drawing up of this Following Declaration of what befell us in our March to and at Brookfield and our Returne homewards I not at first intending that it should by my means be brought to publick view but several persons having seen it though not altogether so large as now it is they perswaded me and urged it as a Duty Incumbent on me the Lord having taken away Captain Hutchinson who might have performed it in a better manner to put it forth in print that many may thereby be provoked to give God the glory of his great works in our Salvation and that others may make use of his dealings with us to learn to trust and Rely upon him in the sorest straits and may be encouraged to wait patiently for Deliverance in the greatest danger that may befall them for greater danger of Loss of Life cannot well be with an Escape then that of ours For from Monday about Ten of the Clock in the morning till nine on Wednesday night all hope that we should be saved as Acts 27.20 was in the Eye of Reason taken away and we were in continual Expectation of Death but yet even then we were not without some hopes in the Lord our God to whom the Issues of Death-belong who was pleased to know our Souls in Adversity to hear our Cries and to save us for his mercy sake as in the Narrative more fully appears which goodness of God that it may be the better remembred by us and others incited the more to magnify God with us as David calls upon others to do for Gods mercy to him Psal 34.3 and also quickned to put their trust on God all their dayes I have Adventured to publish this Narration intreating your Candid Acceptance thereof and over looking all the defects and weaknesses therein As for the Sermon added thereto the occasion thereof was this When the Lord of his free and abundant mercy had sent Deliverance to us by Honoured Majors Willards coming to us and our Enemies departing thereupon and we had rest from them I in the morning called together my Company both the wounded and the Rest who were weary with their hard Service and much watching and propounded this to them whether though God had taken away divers from us others of us were sore wounded yet in regard so many of us had our Lives given us for a Prey also that God had made us Instrumental to save so many Souls alive of the Town dwellers who would probably have been all or most of them destroyed had not God carried us thither whether I say God did not Call for a Solemn day of Thanksgiving from us when we should have Opportunity They Rejoycing at the motion

what he hath done for me and others of his people the works of his hands for mine and others deliverance and Salvation When we praise the Lord we do but sing over what he hath done He acts it and we acknowledge it As in this Salvation vouchsafed to you from the Enemy from their Attempts by Assaults Fire c. An Eccho is little else but a Reflecting Repetition of the first sound so our praises are Repetitions reflecting the work on God He heard he helped he delivered and saved This is the Lords doings There is an Amen in Thanksgiving our Amen to the Truth of Gods dispensations we say Amen to them so they are and we acknowledge it To give Thanks is to give God a Tribute in the Confession of his goodness It is Retribution This is to Crown the Lord we owne him the Author of all our manifold Comforts Deliverances supplies in one kind or other There is a distinction made between glory and glorification glory is an Essential Attribute though there were no Angel or man but glorification is the acknowledgement of his power goodness mercy in his works by the Rational Creature What are you then to acknowledge this day Even the Lords doings in your marpeilous preservation If you would glorifie him this day then say the Lord hath done great things for us This is the Lords doing and it is wonderful in our Eyes Instruct 6th One special particular mercy received from God ought to raise up our Hearts to a Consideration of all other mercies formerly bestowed on us And so it should be with you meet to praise the Lords glorious Name for that great Deliverance at the Swampe and in the Garrison The Prophet addes that general Particle All to shew that from that present Benefit which God had Conferred on him in that great Deliverance mentioned vers 2.3 his heart was extended to a Consideration of other favours which the Lord from time to time had shewed him Thus it will be with a grateful Heart Not that we can think on every benefit so as to leave out none they being so Innumerable but it is to be taken of the several kinds as general particular publick private temporal and Spiritual and of as many several and distinct branches of these as we can Psal 103.2 Forget not all nor any of his Benefits and Psal 105 2 Talk you of all his wondrous works This is the means to enlarge the heart and Inflame it with holy Zeal in praising God as more Fuel brought to the fire makes it greater Here is a good help to this great duty this day and at other times observe all kinds of mercies and call to mind what God hath done for you formerly for your persons Families Relations for the Churches to which you belong for the Country Instruct 7. The Consideration of mercies bestowed on our selves and our Interest in the mercies bestowed on others is a great means to provoke to Thankfulness so the Prophet here For all his Benesits towards me so Psal 103.1 to 6. vers Bless the Lord O my Soul c. who forgives all thine iniquities and beals all thy Diseases c. We are most sensible of kindness done to our selves the sweet whereof our own Souls tast according to the Sense and tast of any kindness is the heart quickned and stirred up to Thankfulness Oh take special notice of such mercies as in particular concern thy self For in the Case and buisiness of your present meeting one may say I was spared and not touched when others were dangeroufly wounded Another may say I was only wounded when others were killed I am recovered when others wounds proved mortal God hath given me my Life when others are taken away by Death I am returned to my Relations or my Relations are come home in safety when others have not enjoyed such a mercy Consider withal how you are Interested in the mercies of others either particular persons or in the Common and publick mercies of the Town and Country You have an Interest in the mercies of your Yoke-fellow Children In the mercies of the Town Church state If the Town be spared when others are consumed It is mercy to evety particular If husband be returned home safe It is a Benefit to me may the wife say If the Father be returned It is a Benefit to me may the Child say so may the Father say in the Childs Return The mercies in Magistracy and Ministry are our mercies They are Gods Benefits to us self Interests are affecting Interests Consider how thou art Interested in any mercy Deliverance Immediately or mediately and this will further our Thankfulness for it As this is a way to affect the Heart with the Churches affliction to Consider our Interest therein as members of the same Body so also to affect our Hearts with Gods goodness to others to Consider how we are concerned therein It may be some may say I have more Cause to Fast and Pray in regard of Gods hand on me and mine rather then to Rejoyce and Feast Do but Consider thy many personal mercies thy Family mercies and thy Interest in Common-wealth and Church mercies and thou mayest see aboundant Cause of Thankfulness It is a Certain Truth that a Child of God when he is in the worst Case he can be in here upon earth hath more Cause of Gratulation then of Petition His mercies are greater then his miseries His Enjoyments more then his wants besides his hopes of all good at last in an Unchangeable Estate Instruct 8th If Temporal mercies be carefully to be observed and Return made to God for them how much more for Spiritual and Eternal mercies If Deliverance from a temporal Death how much more Deliverance from Everlasting Death Spiritual mercies are the great mercies They are the Fathers gifts to his Children other mercies he gives to them that are hated and abhorred by him They have some Relation to God as his Creatures Servants in his great Family and therefore they shall have somewhat here a portion they shall have in these common favours vile and ungodly men often escape deadly dangers as well as precious Saints nay they may be preserved when others better then they are taken a way suddenly and by a violent death These Temporal Benefits will not evidence Gods special favour in Christ What Cause have you to whom God hath given those great benefits of Justification Adoption Sanctification and hopes of glory in Heaven for to say with the Apostle Paul Ephes 1.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual Blessings in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus And with the Prophet in the Text what shall I Render to the Lord who hath done so great things for to deliver my Soul from the Nethermost-Hell and to call me to Eternal glory by Jesus Christ say therefore with the Apostle Peter To him be glory and Dominion for ever and ever 1 Pet. 5.10