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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. Thane often considered the matter and come to this result in my own though that the most holy and righteous God have 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 Burborrwy heaton 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 unclear 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, and 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 thurned the ballance.