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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

Slavery wherein they Wish for Death and cannot find it a Slavery from whence they cry and write unto us It had been Good for us that we had never been Born Quis talia fando Temperet a Lacrymis Thus as Job sometimes complained Chap. 10.17 Thou Renewest thy Witnesses against me and increasest thine Indignation upon me Changes and War are against me Thus in our Long War we have seen those Changes on all Hands and in all Kinds which have witnessed against us the Dreadful Indignation of God God Threatned His people so I read it Amos 2.13 Behold I will press your place as a full Cart presses the Sheaf 'T is an Allusion to the old way of Threshing the Corn by drawing a Loaden Cart with Wheels over the Corn. 9. d. You shall undergo Tribulation Ah New-England Thou hast been under such a Tribulation Syrs Have you not Observed these things But you must wisely Observe them And a wise Observation of these things will cause you to see That the War which hath been upon us hath been a War of GOD. The Indians have been but a small part of those Armies which the Great GOD hath been bringing out against us for Ten Years together and we may conclude that all the Land have been more or less concerned in those Crimes for which the Almighty GOD hath been with these Armies managing His Controvesy with us Our Confession must be Peccavimus omnes We have all gone astray But shall we not upon this Observation take up some Resolution If we are Wise we fhall thus Resolve 'T is Time 'T is Time 'T is High-Time for us to make our Peaee with God Oh Let us not go on to Harden our selves against God we are not Stronger than He But let us all Fly to the Lord Jesus Corist who is our Peace and so lay down the Arms of Rebellion that God may be Reconciled unto us VII In the WAR that hath been upon us Whoso is wise may Observe those Dispensations of Heaven towards us that have carryed more than Ordinary Humiliations in them It was said concerning Miriam the Type of the Now Leprous and out-cast Church of Israel The Lord hasten that Seventh Day wherein it shall be Restored Numb 12.14 If her Father had Spit in her Face should she not be Ashamed Ah New England Thy Father hath been Spitting in thy Face with most Humbling Dispensations God hath been bringing of thee down to Sit in the Dust When the War commenced New-England might say My God will Humble me For First Shall our Heavenly Father put a Rod into the Hands of base Indians and bid Them to Scourge His Children Oh! the Humiliation of such Rebellious Children Oh! the Provocation that certainly such Sons and such Daughters have given Him It was a very Humbling thing that the Lord Threatned unto His Provoking Sons Daughters in Deut. 32.21 I will move them to Jealousy with those which are not a People I will provoke them to Anger with a Foolish Nation Should a Child of yours be Refractory and you Sir should bid a Negro or an Indian Slave in your House Go Take that Child and Scourge him till you fetch Blood of him Surely this would be to Humble him unto the Uttermost Thus doth thy God Humble thee O New-England by putting thee over into the Vile Hands of those which are not a People but a Foolish Nation Again Who are they by whose means we are now crying out We are Brought very Low When the most High God was determined Effectually to Humble His People he said in Jer. 37.10 Though ye had Smitten the whole Army of the Caldeans that fight against you and there remained but wounded men among them yet should they Rise up every man in his Tent and burn this City with Fire Truly we had Smitten the whole Army of the Indians that Fought against us Three and Twenty years ago from one end of the Land unto the other only there were left a few Wounded men among them in the East and now they have Risen up every man and have set the whole Country on Fire Certainly A more Humbling matter cannot be Related Moreover Is it not a very Humbling Thing That when about an Hundred Indians durst Begin a War upon all these Populous Colonies an Army of a Thousand English raised must not kill one of them all but instead thereof more of our Souldiers perish by Sickness and Hardship than we had Enemies then in the world Our God ha's Humbled us Is it not a very Humbling Thing That when the Number of our Enemies afterwards Increased yet an Handful of them should for so many Summers together continue our Unconquered Spoilers and put us to such Vast Charges that if we could have Bought them for an Hundred Pound an Head we should have made a Saving Bargain of it Our God ha's Humbled us Is it not a very Humbling Thing That we should have had several fair Opportunities to have brought this War unto a Final Period but we should still by some fatal Oversight let Slip those Opportunities Our God ha's Humbled us Is it not a very Humling Thing That whatever Expeditions we have undertaken for the most part we have come off Loosers and indeed but plunged our selves into deeper Straits by our Undertakings Our God ha's Humbled us Is it not a very Humbling Thing That more than One or Two of our Forts have been Surrendred and one of them that was almost Impregnable given away with a most Shameful Surrender by one that hath since Received Something of what he Deserved Thus Our God ha's Humbled us Is it not a very Humbling Thing That we should have Evil pursuing of us at such a rate that in other Lands afar off and on the Exchange in London Strangers have made this Reflection Doubtless New-England is a Countrey in Ill Terms with Heaven But so Our God has Humbled us What shall I say Is it not a very Humbling Thing That when Peace is Restored unto the whole English Nation and when Peace is Enjoy'd by all America poor New-England should be the Only Land still Embroil'd in War But thus Our God Thou hast Humbled us and shown us great and sore Troubles and brought us down into the Depths of the Earth O my dear People How can I Observe these Things and not like Joshua now fall to the Earth on my Face before the Lord and say What shall I say But if you will wisely observe these Things you will now get up and Sanctify your selves and put away the accursed thing from among you O New-English Israel Certainly The High and Lofty One who dwells in the High and Holy place Expects that we should be a very Humbled People I beseech you Sirs Observing these Things let us in all the Methods of Repentance Humble our selves under the Mighty Hand of God After such Humbling Things as have befallen us God forbid that it should be said of us as in Jer.