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A88924	Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian salvages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. Faithfully composed and improved. [One line of quotation in Latin]	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Observable things.	1699 (1699)	Wing M1093; ESTC W18639	116,504	255

Dolorous Ejulations I am one that hath been Afflicted by the Rod of the Wrath of God A Great King of Persia having by Death lost the nearest Relation he had in the world and being too passionate a Mourner for his Loss an Ingenious man undertook to Raise the Dead Relation unto Life again if the King would but furnish him in one point that he apprehended necessary It was demanded What that was and it was replied Furnish me but with the Names of Three persons who have never met with any Sadness and Sorrow and by Writing those Names on the Monument of the Dead I 'l bring the Dead person to Life Truly The Ten Years of our War have set many Ten Hundreds of persons a Mourning over their Dead Friends we have seen every where The Mourners go about the Streets Now I durst make you this offer that if you can find Three persons who have met with no matter of Sadness and Sorrow in these Ten Years with the Names of them we 'l fetch your Dead Friends to Life again It 't was said in Job 21.17 God Distributeth Sorrows in His Anger You may Observe a marvellous Distribution of Sorrows made among us by the Anger of God And here first I say nothing of that Amazing Time when the Evil Angels in a praeternatural and in an unparallel'd manner being Let Loose among us God cast upon us the Fierceness of His Anger Wrath and Indignation and Trouble It was the Threatning of God against a people which He had call'd His Children in Deut. 32.23 24. I will Heap Mischiefs upon them I will Spend my Arrows upon them they shall be Devoured with a Bitter Destruction What was the Bitter Destruction thus Threatned unto an Apostatizing People I remember the famous Jew Onkelos renders it They shall be vexed with Evil Spirits and indeed that Sense well agrees with what follows I will send upon them the poison of the Serpents of the Dust Syrs For our Apostasy which is the very Sin of the Evil Spirits the God of Heaven a while ago turned in the Armies of Hell upon us and in that matchless Dispensation of God we underwent a Bitter Destruction from the poison of the Serpents of the Dust But there are other points not a few wherein the Great God hath Heaped Mischiefs upon us and fulfill'd unto us that Holy Commination Ezek. 7.26 Mischief shall come upon mischief What shall I say While the Lord of Hosts hath been against us the Hosts of Lord have been so too All the Elements have as it were been up in Arms against us Particularly You may Observe That Epidemical Sicknesses have in these years been once and again upon us wherein the Angels of Death have Shot the Arrows of Death into such as could not be reached by the Bullets of the Indian Enemy This one Town did in one year loose I suppose at least Six or Seven Hundred of its People by one contagious Mortality And tho' of about Three and Twenty Hundred men that we Employ'd in one Action we did in that Action loose hardly Thirty men yet how many Hundreds did afterwards miserably perish Again You may Observe That the Harvest hath once and again grievously failed in these years and we have been Struck thro' with the Terrible Famine almost as much as if the Indian Enemy had been all the while Skulking about our Fields The very Course of Nature hath been altered among us A Lamentable cry for Bread Bread hath been heard in our Streets The Towns that formerly Supplyed other places with Grain had now been Famished if other places had not sent in a Supply to Them and had a black prospect of being Famished notwithstanding that Supply Once more You may Observe That the Sea hath in these years been Swallowing up our Neighbours and their Estates far more than the Sword of the Wilderness Alas The Devouring Displeasure of God hath said concerning us Though they go to hide themselves from my Sight afar off upon the Sea Thence will I command the Serpent and he shall bite them And here hath it been Enough that our Vessels enough to make an huge Fleet have been taken by the French Enemy A certain Writer hath computed it That in only the First Two or Three years of the War the English Nation lost unto the French more than Fifteen Millions of Pounds Sterling But no part of the English Nation hath been more frequently or sensibly prey'd upon by the French than what hath gone out of New England ever since the War began I say Ha's this been Enough No The wrath of God said This is not Enough I appeal to you that have been Owners of Vessels or Sailors in them whether horrible Shipwracks have not been multiplied since the War began very much more than ever they were before Ah Lord How many of us have Shed Rivers of Tears over our dear Friends that have been Buried in the Ocean Moreover You may Observe That in these years those very Things which were intended for our Defence have oftentimes been so much Improved for our Damage that it was hard for us to say which was the Greater the Defence or the Damage which we had from them It was a Lamentable Time with the Jewes when that Curse came upon them That which should have been for their Welfare Let it become a Trap pour out thine Indignation upon them Truly The Indignation of God hath been poured out upon us in this Fruit of the Curse no less frequently then sensibly that some things which should have been for our Welfare have at the same time served also to Entrap the Persons and Interests of many people into sore Inconveniencies There is no need of Explaining this Article They that have been under this Indignation of God know the Explaining of it Finally You may Observe What Untimely Ends and what Surprizing Fates have come upon our Sons in these Years of the Wrath of the Right-Hand of the Most High When Craesus was in War taken by Cyrus this Captive made unto the Conqueror this Remark upon the Difference between Peace and War O Syr I see that in a time of Peace the Sons Bury their Fathers but in a Time of War the Fathers Bury their Sons Truly Sirs our Time of War has in Various Wayes of Mortality been Embittered with this Remark The Fathers have been Burying their Sons all the Countrey over Many of us have had our Sons even those very Sons of whom we said This same shall Comfort us We have had them violently snatch'd away from us and Cropt in the very Flower of their Youth and they have Left us deploring Oh my Son with all my Heart could I have Dyed for thee my Son my Son But in the midst of these Deplorable Things God hath given up several of our Sons into the Hands of the Fierce Monsters of Africa Mahometan Turks and Moors and Devils are at this Day oppressing many of our Sons with a

Deerfield in the Night they presently Dispatched away Twelve men to way lay the Enemy coming up the River having first Look'd up unto the Lord Jesus Christ that they might find the Enemy and harm none but the Enemy and Rescue the Children which the Enemy had Seized upon After a Travel of near Twenty Miles they perceived the Indians in their Canooes coming up the River but on the other side of it within a Rod or Two of the opposite Shore Whereupon they so Shot as to Hitt one of the Indians and then they all Jump't out of the Canooes and one of the Boyes with them The wounded Salvage crawled unto the Shoar where his back being broken he lay in great Angush often Endeavouring with his Hatchet for to knock out his own Brains and tear open his own Breast but could not and another Indian seeing the Two Boyes getting one to another design'd 'em a Shot but his Gun would not go off Whereupon he followed 'em with his Hatchet for to have knock'd 'em on the Head but just as he come at 'em one of our men sent a Shot into him that Spoilt his Enterprize and so the Boyes getting together into one Canooe brought it over to the Friends thus concerned for them These good men seeing their Exploit performed thus far Two Indians destroy'd and Two Children delivered they fell to Praising of God and one young man particularly kept thus Expressing himself Surely T is God and not we that have wrought this Deliverance But as we have sometimes been told That even in the Beating of a Pulse the Dilating of the Heart by a Diastole of Delight may be turned into a contracting of it with a Systole of Sorrow In the Beating of a few Pulse after this they sent five or six men with the Canooe to fetch the other which was lodged at an Island not far off that they might pursue the other Indians when those two Indians having hid themselves in the High-grass unhappily Shot a quick Death into the young man whose Expressions were but now recited This Hopeful young mans Brother-in-Law was intending to have gone out upon this Action but the young man himself importuned his Mother to let him go which because he was an only Son she denyed but then fearing she did not well to withold her Son from the Service of the Publick she gave him leave saying See that you do now and as you go along Resign and give up your self unto the Lord and I desire to Resign you to Him So he goes and so he dies And may he be the last that falls in a Long and Sad War with Indian Salvages ARTICLE XXVIII The Epilogue of a Long Tragaedy FOr the present then the Indians have Done Murdering They 'l Do so no more till next Time Let us then have done Writing when we have a little informed our selves what is become of the chief Murderers among those Wretches for whom if we would find a Name of a Length like one of their own Indian Long-winded words it might be Bombardo-gladio-fun-hasti-flammi-loquentes Major Convers and Captain Alden in pursuance of Instructions Received from the Lieut. Governour and Council arriving at Penobscet on Oct. 14. 1698. were there informed That Madockawando the noted Sagamore with several other Sachims of the East were lately Dead And six days after this the chief Sachims now Living with a great Body of Indians Entertained them with a Friendly Discourse wherein they said That the Earl of Frontenac had sent them word there was a Peace concluded between the Kings of France and England and that one of the Articles in the Peace was for Prisoners on both sides to be Returned and they were Resolved to obey the Earl of Frontenac as their Father and accordingly such Prisoners of ours as they had now at hand might immediately Return if we could perswade them for They would not Compel them When our English Messengers argued with them upon the perfidiousness of their making a New War after their Submission the Indians replied That they were Instigated by the Erench to do what they did against their own Inclinations adding That there were two Jesuites one toward Amonoscoggin the other at Narridgaway both of which they desired the Earl of Bellomont and the Earl of Frontenac to procure to be Removed otherwise it could not be expected that any Peace would continue long The Indians also and the English Prisoners gave them to understand that the last Winter many both Indians and English Prisoners were Starved to Death and particularly Nine Indians in one company went a Hunting but met with such hard circumstances that after they had Eat up their Dogs and their Coats they Dyed horribly Famished And since the last Winter a grievous and unknown Disease is got among them which consumed them wonderfully The Sagamore Saquadock further told them That the Kennebeck Indians would fain have gone to War again this last Summer but the other Refused whereupon they likewise Desisted And they Resolved now to Fight no more but if any Ill Accident or Action should happen on either side he did in the Name of the Indians Desire That we would not presently make a War upon it but in a more amicable way compose the Differences That the Indian Affayrs might come to be yet more exactly understood the General Assembly of the Province Employ'd Colonel John Phillips and Major Convers to Settle them These Gentlemen took a Difficult and a Dangerous Voyage in the Depth or Winter unto the Eastern parts in the Province-Galley then under the Command of Captain Cyprian Southack and the principal Sagamores of the Indians there coming to them did again Renew and Subscribe the Submission which they had formerly made in the year 1693. With this Addition unto it And whereas notwithstanding the aforesaid Submission and Agreement the said Indians belonging to the Rivers aforesaid or some of them thro' the ill counsel and instigation of the French have perpetrated sundry Hostilities against His Majesties Subjects the English and have not Delivered and Returned home several English Captives in their Hands as in the said Submission they Covenanted Wherefore we whose Names are hereunto Subscribed Sagamores Captains and principal men of the Indians belonging unto the Rivers of Kennebeck Ammonoscoggin and Saco and parts adjacent being sensible of our great Offence and Folly in not complying with the aforesaid Submission and Agreement and also of the Sufferings and Mischiefs that we have hereby exposed our selves unto Do in all Humble and most Submissive manner cast our selves upon His Majesties Mercy for the pardon of all our Rebellions Hostilities and Violations of our promises praying to be Received into His Majesties Grace and protection And for and on behalf of our selves and of all other the Indians belonging to the several Rivers and places aforesaid within the Soveraignty of His Majesty of Great Britain do again acknowledge and profess our Hearty and Sincere Obedience unto the Crown of

it self against them And that the Venome of this Pamphlet might be Improved unto the Heighth of Slanderous Wickedness there hath been since added unto it in another Pamphlet a parcel of Ingredients compounded for mischief as if by the Art of the Apothecary None but he whom the Jewes in their Talmuds call Ben-tamalion could have inspired such a Slanderer Have the Quakers ever yet Censured this their Author for holding forth in his Alcoran pag. 221. That the Devil Sin Death and Hell are but Nothing they are but a Non-Entity And pag. 183. That all men who have a Body of Sin remaining in them are Witches I have cause to believe that they never did Nor that they ever advised him to pull in his Horns from goring the sides of New-England with such passages as those in pag. 195. the same horrible Pamphlet God hath well Rewarded the Inhabitants of New-England for their Unrighteous Dealings towards the Native Indians whom now the Lord hath suffered to Rew●r● the Inhabitants with a double measure of Blood by Fire and Sword c. And those Unrighteous Dealings he Explains to be the Killing of the Indians or Murdering of them by the Old Planters of these Colonies in their First Settlement Thus are the Ashes of our Fathers vilely staled upon by one who perhaps would not stick at the Villany of doing as much upon their Baptism it self I must tell you Friends that if you don 't publickly give forth a Testimony to Defy Tom Maule and his Works it will be thought by some who it may be don't wish you so well as I do that you own this Bloody Stuff which doubtless you 'l not be so ill advised as to do But certainly if the good people of New-England now make it not a proverb for a Lyar of the First Magnitude He is as very a Lyar as TOM MAULE they will deprive their Language of one Significant Expression which now offers it self unto them Let us now Leave our Friend Maules Works as a fit Volumn to be an Appendix unto the famous Tartaretus and worthy of a Room in Pantagruels Library The fittest way to answer him would be to send him to Boston Woods In the mean Time I owe unto the Publick a piece of History which it may be for the Safety of our Northern Towns to be acquainted withal Know Sirs That once the famous George Keith undertook to be the Champion of our New-English Quakers and bid fair to be the very Dalae or Prester John of all the English Tartars but a Minister of Boston upon that occasion publishing a Book Entituled Little Flocks guarded against grievous Wolves could not but complain of it as a very Scandalous Thing in George Keith to maintain the points of the Foxian Quakerism while he really differed from them All this while George Keith was admired by our Quakers as an Apostle or an Oracle but he finding it impossible to mentain the gross Tenets of the common Quakers preach'd unto them the Necessity of Believing on a Christ without as well as a Christ within Hereupon there grew such alienations between him and the other Quakers who had been taught by George Fox to say The Devil is in them who say they are Saved by Christ without them that he not only ha's written diverse Learned Books to confute those very Doctrines of the Common Quakers which the Pastors of New-England had upon his Provocation Written against but also ha's therefore undergone a Storm of Persecution from the Friends in Pensylvania Yea 't is verily thought that poor George would have been made a Sacrifice to Squire Samael Jennings and the rest of the Pensylvanian Dragons and that since a crime which their Laws ha● made Capital was mention'd in the Mittimus whereby Keith was committed they would have Hang'd him if a R●volution upon their Government had not set him at liberty Being by the Fines and Gaols and Fierce Usages of the Quakers in Pensylvania driven over to England the Wonderful Hand of God hath made this very man I think I may say incomparably the greatest Plague that ever came upon that Sect of Energumens Although he do himself still retain the Name of a Quaker yet he hath in one Treatise after another Earnestly called upon the Divines throughout the Nation more Vigorously to Employ their Talants against the Quakers as a more Dangerous Generation of People than they are well aware and he did in the year 1696. with the leave of the Lord Mayor Challenge the Quakers to make their Appearance at Turners Hall in the chief City of Europe where he proved unto the Satisfaction of a vast Assembly that the chief Writers of the Quakers assert Christ neither to be God nor Man and that they deny Christ to be pray'd unto and that they had affirm'd Christs outward Blood shed on the Ground to be no more than the Blood of another Saint and that they had charged him with New-Doctrine for directing to Faith in Christ without us as well as within us and that at their Meetings they had censured him for saying That Christs Body came out of the Grave which they say It never did And many more such horrid matters To confirm these things Besides the grievous Bites which Francis Bugg one of their late Friends hath given them one Daniel Leeds without wholly casting off the Profession of a Quaker hath lately Printed a Book wherein he produces above Threescore Instances of the Flat Contradictions which he hath observed in the Books of the Friends that have most pretended unto Infallibility and he demonstrates from evident matter of East that though they declared unto the World That their Sufferings had been greater and more unjust than the Sufferings of Jesus and His Apostles yet they themselves were no sooner mounted into the Seat of Government than they fell to Persecuting as bad as any in the World Albeit Fox writes They that cause People to be put in Prison and have their Goods taken away are Disorderly Teachers and shall be rooted out Nevertheless Leeds proves by many Exemples that the Pensylvanians did it even upon their own Friends for meer Scruples of their Consciences 'T is reported The Quakers are so confounded at this Book of Leeds that they have been at the charge to buy up the whole Impression of it and so to Stiffle and Smother it If it be so I hope 't will but produce a New Impression of so rare a Book The Marvellous Providence of our Lord Jesus Christ having thus employ'd the Pens of the Quakers themselves to warn you that you beware of Quakerism it will be a marvellous Infatuation in any of you after this to be led away with that Error of the Wicked Reader make a Pause and here Admire the Marvellous Providence of our Lord Jesus Christ The first and great Apostle of the Quakers even George Fox the Shoe-maker in his Great Mystery Pag. 94. Excludes from the Church of Christ Those who are not Infallible