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-cially unto the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. II. To teach war to the young generations of N. Eng. who had never been acquainted with it, & especially to teach old & young how little confidence is to be put in an arm of flesh, and to let them see if god give commission to a few (comparatively) of naked men to execute any work of god, how insignificant nothings are numbers of men well armed, & provided, and endowed with courage & valor to oppose & conquer the enemy, until god turn the balance. It was observed by some judicious that at the beginning of the war, the Eng. soldiers made nothing of the Indians. & many spake words to this effect that one Eng. man was sufficient to chase 10 indians(1), many reckoned it was no other, but veni, vidi, vici(2). Surely the Lord well knew that if he should have given his people victory, before they were in some measure corrected of this sin of trusting in an arm of flesh, that little glory would accrue to his name by such a deliverance. III. The purging & trying the faith & patience off the godly Eng. & christ[superscript]n Indians, certainty was another end god aimed at in this chastisement. And the discovery of hypocrisy & wickedness in some that were ready to cry aha[underlined], at the sore calamity upon Eng. people in this war, & as much as in them lay to overthrow god's work in gospelizing the poor Inds. IV. Doubtless one great end god aimed at was the punishment & destruction of many of the wicked heathen, whose iniquities were now full; the last period whereof, was their malignant opposition to the offers of the gospel, for the Pakanahats(3) & The Narragansets, those two great nations, upon whom the dint

(1)This is true of all who wrote at the time, especially Dr. I. Mather & The anonymous author of the "Letters to London." (2) The language of Caesar. (3) Pokanokets probably.