At a Council held at Boston, September the seventeenth 1675 It having pleased the Holy God ... The governour and Council of this jurisdiction therefore ... do appoint and order the seventh day of the next moneth; to be a day of public humiliation, with fasting and prayer ... Massachusetts. Council. Approx. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2016-02 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). B0948369648734 184976 2240871623 Wing M961A ESTC W34514 69648734

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 eng Fasts and feasts -- Massachusetts -- Early works to 1800. Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources. Broadsides -- United States -- Massachusetts -- 17th century. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion 2021-05 TEI P5 conversion
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AT A COUNCIL Held at Boston, September the seventeenth 1675

IT having pleased the HOLY GOD (all whose works are Truth, and his wayes judgement) for our sins whereby he hath been provoked, in special by the under valuation of our pleasant things; great unthankfulness for, and manifold abuses of our wonderfull peace, and the blessings of it in this good Land which the Lord-hath Given us; Ill entertainment of the Ministry of the precious Gospel of Peace: leaving our first Love, dealing falsly in the Covenant of the Lord our God: the Apostacy of many from the Truth unto Heresies, and pernicious Errours. Great Formality, Inordinate Affection, and sinful Conformity to this present evil vain World: and (beside many horrid and Scandalous Sins breaking forth among us, for which we have Cause to be greatly humbled before the Lord), our great unsensibleness of the displeasure of the Lord is suffering these abominations to be perpetrated, together with our Car • al Security, and unquietness under the Iudgements of God upon us, our abiding very much unreformed, notwithstanding all warnings, and Chastisements, whereby the Lord hath been, and is still debating with us; we having greatly Incensed him to stir up many Adversaries against us, not only abroad, but also at our own doors, (Causing the Heathen in this wilderness to be as thorns in our sides, who have formerly been, and might still b • a wall unto us therein; and others also to become a Scourge unto us) the Lord himself also more Immediately afflicting us by diseases whereof so many Children in some of our Towns have died this Summer. His not going forth with our Armies as in former times, but giving up many of our Brethren to the mouth of the devouring Sword, yea, shewing himself angry with the Prayers of his people: threatning us also with Scarcity of Provision and other Calamities, Especially if this present Warr with the barbarous Heathen should continue; And that the Lord of Hosts himselfe withdraw not the Commission he hath given to the Sword and other Judgements to prevaile against us;

The GOVERNOUR and COUNCIL of this Jurisdiction therefore (being under the Sense of these evils; and also of the distressed state of the rest of the Colonies Confederate with our selves, and of the Churches of Christ in other parts of the Christian World; in this day of trouble, rebukes, and Blasphemy: and fearing the sad Issue thereof, unless the Lord help us with our whole heart, and not feignedly, to turn unto himself) Do Appoint and Order the seventh day of the next Moneth; to be a day of publick Humiliation, with Fasting, and Prayer; throughout this whole Colony; that we may set our selves sincerely to seek the Lord, rending our hearts, 〈…〉 our Garments before him, and purse the same with a thorough Reformation of wh •• 〈…〉 , or is an Image of Jealousie before the Lord to offend the eyes of his 〈…〉 Lord may turn from his fierce anger, that we perish not: We do thereso •• 〈…〉 •• tants of this Jurisdiction to fo • bear Servile Labour upon that day, and 〈…〉 respectively to observe the same, as is Appointed.

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