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10[curly underline] gned stations, & hereby might have been as a living wall to guard the English frontiers, & consequently the greatest part of the jurisdiction which with the blessing of god might have been prevented the desolations & devastations that afterward ensued. This was not only the suggestion of some English, but the earnest desire of some of the most prudent of the christian Indians who in all their actions declared that they were greatly ambitious to give demonstration to the English of their fidelity & good affection for them & the interest of christian religion, & to endeavour all that in them lay to abate & take off the animosity & displeasure that they perceived was enkindled in some English against them, & hence it was that they were always found ready to comply cheerfully with all commands of the English authority. But such was the unhappiness of their affairs, or rather the displeasure of god in the case, that those counsels were rejected, & on the contrary, a spirit of enmity & hatred concieved by many against those poor christian Indians, as I apprehend, without cause, & for as I could ever understand, which was, according to the operation of second causes, a very great occasion of many distressing calamities that befell both one & the other. The great god who overruleth & ordereth all councils & actions for the bringing to pass his own purpose & desire, was pleased to darken this