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under God were instrumentall for the preservation of that colony which had but one smaul deserted village burnt in this warre and very little of their other substance destroyed by the enemy. Thoue? often considered the matter and come to this result in my own thoughts that the most holy and righteous God hath overruled all countriees and affayres in this and other things relating to this warr for such wise judge and holy tends of these- 1: to make a Rod of the Barbourory heathon to chastise and punish the English for their sinnes, the Lord had as our faithfull ministers often declared, applyed more gentle chastisements (gradully) to his New England people. But these proving in great mesure ineffectuall to produce effectull humiliation and reformation. hense the rightious and holy Lord is necesited to draw forth this smarting Rod of the unclear and brutish heathon, who unclear hve beene a very unclear scourge unto New England, especially unto the jurisdiction of massachusettes?; 2: to teach warre to the young Generation of New England, who had never been aquainted with it, and specially to teach old and yong how little confydence is to bee put in an arm of flesh and to let them see if God give commission to a few (comparitivly,) of naked men, to execute, any works of God. how insignificant nothings are numbers of men wel armed and provided, and endowed with courage and vallour to opose and conquer the enimy, until God turned the ballance. it was observed by some judisious, that at the Beeginning of this warre, the English souldiers generaly made a nothing of the indians and many spake words to this effect, that one english man was sufficient to chase ten Indians many reckoned it was no other but veni, vidi, vici. Surly the Lord wel knew, that if hee would have? given his people victory, before they were in some measure convicted of this sinne of trusting in an army of unclear little Glory would accrew to his name by such a deliverance. 3 The purging and trying of the faith and patience? of the Godly English and Christian Indians, certainly was another end God aymed at in this chastisement. And the discovery of Hipocrisy and wickedness in Some that were redy to cry Aha at the sore calamity upon the English people in this warre and as much as in them lay to overthrow? Gods works in Gospelizing the poore Indians.