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counsel from such as had the power to put it in practice. And although there was a demonstration near hand in the colony of Con.ct for the benefit of such a course as was before proposed & desired in keeping a fair correspondence with their neighbor Indians, the Mohegans & Pequods, who were not only improved by the English in all their expeditions, but were on guard to the frontiers whereby those Indians upon the account of their own interest (for they had no principles of Christianity to fix them to the English) proved very faithful & serviceable to the English, & under god were instrumental for the preservation of that colony, which had but one small deserted village unclear in this war (1), & very little of their other substance destroyed by the enemy. I have often considered this matter, & come to this result in my own thoughts, that the most holy & righteous god hath unclear all counsels & affairs in this & other things relating to this war, for such wise, just & holy ends as these. I. To make a rod of the barbarous heathen to chastise & punish the English for their sins, the Lord had, as over our faithful ministers often declared, applied more gentle has unclear (gradually) to his new Eng. people, but those proving in great measure ineffectual to produce effectual unclear & reformation, hence the righteous & holy Lord is necessitated to draw forth this smarting rod of the vile & brutish heathen, who ineed have been a very, very scourge unto N. Eng,; espe- (1) "All the buildings in Narraganset, from Providnece to Stonington, a tract of about 50 miles, were burned, or otherwise destroyed." Trumbull's Con. I, 351, N. The place destroyed was crossed out