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6 number in top left corner margin 4 ly Doubtles one great end God aymed at was the punishment & destruction of many of the wicked Heathen whose = iniquities were ^ now full. the past period whereof was their malignant oposition to the offers of the Gospel. for the Pakanahats & the narragansits those two great nations, upon whoms the sins of warre have

most especialy fallen, for they are allmost to fully destroyed, had once & 

againe the Gospel offered for them. But their cheefe Sachems malignantly rejected & oposed it, & consequently the people followed their examples.smudged And Not withstanding they were very conversant among the English especially the Narragansets & comendable for their Industry & laubor among the English: Yet had they most of them no hearing ears, onto its glad tidings of Salvation, offered in the Gospel & very few of them delights in comunion with the Christian Indians, And heere I shall insert a matter of Remarque. After the warre began with Philip, the English having cause to bee suspicious of the narragansetts, sent som soldiers to Mr Simths of Wickford that lived nearst them, designating thereby to put them upon a nesscesity to declare themselves, friends or enemies & to push upon them the performances of former Articles of agreement betwene the English & them, at which time beeing in July 1675 they complyed to a treaty of continuement in peace & friendship with the English

 But among other articles the narragansets by their agent Potuche 

that the English should not send any among them to preach the Gospel or call upon them to pray to God, But the English refusing to concede to such an Article it was withdrawne, and a peace concluded for yt time. In this act they declared what their hearts were namely to reject cht [christ] & his grace offered to them before. But the Lord Jesus before the expiration of 18 month destroyd, the body of the Narraganset nation that would not scribbled out letters heed him to raign over them & particularly all their cheefe sachems & this pouach A cheefe counsilor & subtle felow who was taken at Road Iland comming voluntraly there & after sent to Boston & there executed; 5: And Lastly to mention no more this doubtles was another end the God of heaven Aymd at in this warre, that hee might magnify his Rich & free grace in saving & delivering his poore New England people at last & destroying the greatest part of the enimy & suffering others under them scribbled out letters & this was by his owne hand cheefly ^ don thereby magnify most his grace in Answering the incessant prayers of the people of God in England, Ireland & Scotland, as was as in New England, But I

shall forbeare to add any more of this kind & proceed now to declare matter of fact.

1675 written in left margin under a line In April, 1675 before the warre brake forth above two months there