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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

rescuing me from deadly dangers helping me when I was in a low Estate delivering mine Eyes from Tears c. bestowing so many Benefits loosing my bonds Ps 136. In every verse Thy mercy endureth for ever Oh praise give thanke for his mercy and when he was concluding he was ready to begin again Oh give Thanks ver 26. Oh give Thanks to the God of Heaven for c. A thankeful heart in a lively frame takes delight to speak of the goodness of God towards him Is not soon tyred nor weary thereof All Repetitions are not babling and therefore let us beware of so judging them sometimes out of the Aboundance of the Heart Christians go over and over the same thing in petition of good from God and in Thanksgiving for good received at his hands Instruct. 2. The Lord so dispenseth mercy to his people as thereby he leads them unto special and solemn seasons of Thanksgiving Though he do afflict them visit them with Rods yet in the midst of those Exercises he so dispenseth favours that they have Cause and just occasion not only of ordinary but also Extraordinary praises Their mercies come in a more then ordinary way and so call for morethen ordinary praises Sometimes God giveth them mercies through many difficulties as water out of the Rock Deut. 32.13 which together with their necessity made the water as bony and Oyle God could give them another way he goes that way that thereby he might provoke them to Thanksgiving Divers Instances we have in Psal 107. some he casts into Exile and delivers them others into Bonds and Imprisonment and releaseth them others he makes sick and heals them that they may praise him He brings them into great dangers and Distresses at Sea and Land that they may Render Praise in their Redemption Thus hath been Gods dispensations towards you here met you were in great distress i.e. and he hath not left you without signal Providences gracious discoveries of mercy and so given you occasion of Solemn Thanksgiving He brought you Low and hath raised you that you might praise him Instruct 3. A Thankeful Spirit is a Resolute and Inquisitive Spirit Inquisitive to know and Resolute to do what it knoweth may please the Lord. 1. It is Inquisitive to know what it may what it should do This is the property of gratefulness either to God or man as in David respecting the Posterity of his dear Jonathan Is there any of the house of Saul c. 2 Sam. 9.1 so also in Elisha respecting the Shunamite who had shewed him so much kindness 2 Kings 4.13.14 What is to be done for her Grateful Children and Friends will desire to know what may please their Parents Friends And so it is with the Children and Friends of God They desire to know the mind and will of God what he requires of them and what may be an acceptable Sacrifice to him Hence they pray for knowledge and understanding as David Psal 119.33 34 Hence also they will search the word of God that they may understand his will and understanding it do it Rom. 12.2 2dly It is a Resolute Spirit resolved to do what ever may express the Thankfulness of his heart to God according to his will As he purposeth in his heart not to sin by doing the Least Evil Dan. 1.8 so he purposeth and resolveth to do though not in his own strength what is pleasing to God Psal 119.8 I will keep thy Precepts and in the Text what shall I Render c. I will stick at nothing will do any thing as when Joseph supplyed the Egyptians with Come they yield to any Terms Let us find grace in the sight of my Lord and we will be Pharoahs Servants Gen 47 25. And as David was ready to do what ever Barzilla should request of him 2 Sam. 19.38 In testimony of his Thankfulness for his Loyalty and Bounty at such a time so a gracious Soul much more towards God It is resolved to do any thing to suffer any thing whereby God may be honoured As Paul Acts 21.14 How ungrateful then are they that will not do what they know to be pleasing to God though it be clearly set before them and strongly urged on them young men are called upon to turn to God quickly elder and younger ones to seek after him in all his holy Ordinances to forsake their Lusts and vain Company but they will not they hold fast deceit and refuse to Return They know what is good but will not do it Many know their duties in their Relations towards Superiours and Inferiours but will not yield to them And though some for Carnal sinister Respects do many things as Jebu Herod c. yet at something they stick some Dalilah they will keep some Lust they will not part withal some duty they will not perform Especially how farr are such from Thankfulness that resolve not to do what God sets before them as they Jer. 44.16 17 The word that thou hast spoken to us in the Name of the Lord we will not do Such are most Ingrateful ones for all the mercies they receive from him Instruct 4th To be truly thankful to God is an high and avery Spiritual Service It is a Rendring and making Returns to God what shall I Render to God c. For man to be sit to receive from God is a great matter but it is much higher for us to Render to God that man dust and Ashes should make a Requital to the great and glorious God Therefore David so magnifies God that they should offer so liberally to him 1 Chron. 29.10 c. It is a great matter to be admired that God should honour us therefore saith the Prophet what is man that thou art mindful of him c Thou hast Crowned him with glory and honour but for us to honour God is greater It is an high duty for the Sons of men which are but worms to rise so high as to honour God praising of God is an extolling or Exalting God Exod. 15.2 He is higher then to be exalted by us yet this we are said to do in an Acknowledgement of his hand giving him the glory of his wisdome power goodness Faithfulness and mercy in the operations of his hand about us Think it not an easy thing to praise the Lord It is not only a lip labour an easy Service It is a Rendring to God To play on Musick is pleasant but it is hard to set the Instrument in Tune to play well It is hard to get the heart in Tune in a Spiritual lively humble frame Hence David so stirs up himself to it Psal 103.1 2 and Deborab calls upon her self to awake Judg. 5.12 Instruct. 5th Gods doings are the matter of the Saints Acknowledgements in their Thanksgivings and praises of him The word Translated Praise signifies Confession and so often Rendred by Mr. Ainsworth Confess the Lord c. Now the Lords doings are the matter of their Confessions his Benefits

very readily Assented to it and promised that those of us whom God should be pleased to Carry home would attend it in due Season and when some others with my self and Son were in some good measure recovered of our wounds I Requested Mr. Bulkely to help us in the work of the day intended to be kept by us He being of a ready Spirit to the utmost of his strength to forward any good duty that God calls for he also Judging it to be of very great Concernment althoughte he Country was in very great distress our Deliverance being so Remarkable he did joyne with us therein on October 21.75 and then preached what is here published which we finding so seasonable to the occasion and beneficial to our selves I further Requested him that for the help of our memories and our better Improvement of what was then delivered to us also for the benefit and Edification of others he would give me a Coppy of it and suffer me to publish it which though for a time he delayed to do yet hath at length given given me a Coppy with power to do as I shall think best therein permitting it to be added to the aforesaid Narrative I hope it may be profitable to many of Gods people to whose view it may come I know that there be many in this Country at this day for whome it may be very seasonable who having with our selves received great mercies in Preservations and Deliverances in these Evil and Troublesome Times in the Naragansit Expedition and at other times and in other places where they have been in very great danger and in hazard of the loss of Life and all they had as also having been healed of sore and dangerous wounds been brought home safely to their dear Relations or have had their Relations Returned to them whom they feared they should not have seen again and have had their Habitations and Estates preserved when near to Ruine and others not farr from them were consumed All whom with all others whom God hath vouchsaved any special mercy to in Recovery out of great sicknesses or otherwise it Concerns to do as we were then Exhorted to do even seriously to observe what God hath done about them and for them and Carefully to Return that Praise Love and Obedience which he expects from them I Crave your Prayers for the blessing of God to accompany both his Works and his Word tous for our Everlasting good Tho. Wheeler A TRVE NARRATIVE Of the Lords Providences in various dispensations towards Captain Edward Hutchinson of Boston and my self and those that went with us into the Nipmuck Country and also to Quabaug alias Brookfield The said Captain Hutchinson having a Commission from the Honoured Council of this Colony to Treat with several Sachems in those parts in order to the publick peace and my self being also ordered by the said Council to accompany him with part of my Troop for Security from any danger that might be from the Indians and to Assist him in the Transaction of matters committed to him THe said Captain Hutchinson and my self with about twenty men or more marched from Cambridge to Sudbury July 28.75 and from thence into the Nipmuck Country and finding that the Indians had deserted their Towns and we having gone until we came within twenty miles of New Norwitch on July 31. only we saw two Indians having an Horse with them whom we would have spoke with but they fled from us and left their Horse which we took we then thought it not expedient to march any further that way but set our march for Brookfield whither we came on the Lords day about Noon From thence the same day being August 1. we understanding that the Indians were about Ten Miles Northwest from us we sent out four men to acquaint the Indians that we were not come to harm them but our business was only to deliver a Message from our Honoured Governour and Council to them and to receive their Answer we desiring to come to a Treaty of Peace with them though they had for several dayes fled from us they having before professed Friendship and promised Fidelity to the English When the Messengers came to them they made an Alarm and gathered together about an hundred and Fifty fighting men as near as they could judge The young men amongst them were stout in their Speeches and surly in their Carriage But at length three of the chief Sachems promised to meet us on the next morning about eight of the Clock upon a plain within three miles of Brookfield with which Answer the Messengers returned to us Whereupon though their Speeches and Carriage did much discourage divers of our Company yet we conceived that we had a cleer Call to go to meet them at the place whither they had promised to come Accordingly we with our men accompanied with three of the Principal Inhabitants of that Town marched to the plain appointed but the Treacherous Heathen intending mischief if they could have opportunity came not to the said place and so failed our hopes of speaking with them there Whereupon the said Captain Hutchinson and my self with the rest of our Company Considered what was best to be done whether we should go any further towards them or Return divers of us apprehending much danger in Case we did proceed because the Indians kept not promise there with us But the three men who belonged to Brookfield were so strongly perswaded of their Freedome from any ill Intentions towards us as upon other grounds so especially because the greatest part of those Indians belonged to David one of their chief Sachems who was taken to be a great Friend to the English That the said Captain Hutchinson who was principally Intrusted with the matter of Treaty with them was thereby encouraged to proceed and march forward towards a Swampe where the Indians then were When we came near the said Swampe the way was so very bad that we could march only in a fingle File there being a very Rocky Hill on the right hand and a thick Swampe on the left In which there were many of those cruel blood-thirsty Heathen who there way-laid us waiting an opportunity to cut us off there being also much brush on the side of the said Hill where they lay in Ambush to surprize us When we had marched there about sixty or seventy Rods the said perfidious Indians sent out their shot upon us as a showre of haile they being as was supposed about two hundred men or more We seeing our selves so beset and not having room to fight Endeavoured to fly for the safety of our lives In which Flight we were in no small danger to be all Cut off there being a very miry Swamp before us into which we could not enter with our horses to go forwards and there being no safety in retreating the way we came because many of our Enemies who lay behind the Bushes and had let us pass by them