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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50133	Humiliations follow'd with deliverances a brief discourse on the matter and method of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity accompanied and accommodated with a narrative of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives from the hands of cruel Indians and some improvement of that narrative : whereunto is added A narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Swarton, Hannah.	1697 (1697)	Wing M1116; ESTC R19464	26,849	74

Innumerable and almost Irremediable Woes to break in upon us XII Let us Humbly Confess That M●gistrates Ministers and others that have served the Publick have been but great Sufferers by their Services and met with Unrighteous Discouragements XIII Let us Humbly Confess That the Pyracies which 't is to be feared some who belong to these have perpetrated in other parts of the World are Scandals that call for much Lamentation XIV Let us Humbly Confess That we have in former years used Unjustifiable Hardships upon some that have Conscientiously Dissented from our perswasions in Religion XV. Let us Humbly Confess That we have treated one another very Ill in the Various Temptations Cententions and Rev●luti●ns which have been upon us XVI Let us Humbly Confess That the Sins of the most Filthy Uncleanness have horribly Defiled the Land XVII Let us Humbly Confess That the Joy of Harvest hath been filled with Folly and Lewdness and Forgotten the Glad Service of God whom we should have Served in the Abun●lance of all things XVIII Let us Humbly Confess That much Fraud hath been used in the Dealings of many and the Spirit of Oppression hath made a Cry XIX Let us Humbly Confess That Falsehood and Slander hath been commonly carrying of Darts through the Land and the Wounded have been many XX. And Let us Humbly Confess That the Successive and Amazing Judgments of God upon us for our thus Trespassing have not Reclamed us but we have prodigiously Gone on still in our Trespasses In our Humiliations Let these things be Reflected on and with our most Humble Reflections Let us do like them in 1 Sam. 7.6 Gather together and Draw water and pour it out in a Showre of Tears before the Lord and Fast on that Day and say we have Sinned against the Lord. But that this our Confession of our Provocations may be Penitent we must Secondly Incorporate thereinto a Confession of what we have Deserved by these Provoking Evils Particularly We have seen many Troubles but on our Day of Humiliation concerning all our Troubles Let us Humbly make that Confession in Ezra 9.13 Thou our God best punished us less than our Iniquities Deserve Have we lost many Thousands of Pounds by the Disasters of the Sea Let us Humbly Confess our Sins have Deserved that instead of making one Good Voyage we should have been stript of all the Little that is left unto us Hath one bad harvest after another diminished our Ordinary Food Let us Humbly Confess our Sins have Deserved that the Earth which hath been thereby Defiled should have yielded us n●thing at all Have Bloody Popish and Pagan Enemies made very dreadful Impressions upon us and Captived and Butchered multitudes of our Beloved Neighbours Let us Humbly Confess our Sins have Deserved that we should be all of us altogether given up unto the will of our Enemies to Serve our Enemies in the want of all things and have our Lives continually hanging in Doubt under their turious Tyrannies Have we been Broken sore in the place of Dragons and Covered with the Shadow of Death Say Humbly before the Lord with them in Lam. 3.39 Why should a man Complain for the punishment of his Sin And yet we have had Comforts to mitigate and moderate our Troubles In the midst of wrath God ha's Remembred Mercy Now concerning all our Comforts on our Day of Humiliation Let us Humbly make that Confession in Lam. 3.22 It is of the Lords mercies that we are not Consumed Have we not the Tidings of Salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ Preac'd unto us to sweeten the Bread of Adversity and the Water of Affl●ction which the Lord hath given us Let us Humbly Confess 'T is of the Lords Mercies that this Countrey ha's the Bread of Life and the Waters of Life yet continued unto it and that it is not become a Region of the Valley of the Shadow of Death Are our Poor though greatly Increased and Afflicted yet more Comfortably provided for than in many other parts of the World Let us Humbly Confess 'T is of the Lords Mercies that we are not all Seattered and fami●hed and peri●hed in our Poverty Do we see less of the Distress of Nations and Perplexity with the Sea and the waves thereof Roaring than they do in a great part of Europe 8. Let us Humbly Confess 'T is of the Lords Mercies that all the Things which the fainting Hearts of men any where do fear coming on the Earth are not come upon our selves Why do not our Adversaries use the Advantages which they have to Confound us but are themselves in such Confusion that we Endure not an Hundredth part of the Disturbance from them which they might give unto us Humbly say before the Lord with him in Gen. 32.10 We are not worthy of the least of all these Mercies This This would be the Language of a True Humiliati●n But a Second Admoni●ion must be added unto This. What Signities Confession without Reformation T is all but Hypocrisy all but Impiety We are told in Prov. 28.13 T is he that Confesseth Forsaleth who shall have Mercy The Ancients would well call the Confession of Sin The Vemit of the Soul But now if we return and proceed unto the Commission of the Sins which we have by our Confession as it were Vomited up what are we but the Dogs that Return unto their Vomit When Sins are Sincerely Confessed the Repenting Sinners will say as in Hos 14.8 What have we any more to do with them Come then We have now and then that which we call A Day of Humiliation But Sirs A Day of Reformation Oh! when shall we see such a Day When shall it once be Behold an Essential Piece of work to be attended when A Day of Humiliation arrives unto us Let every one of us Earnestly Enquire with our selves What is there that I am now to Reform in my own Heart and Life and in the Family which I belong unto and importunately implore the Help of the Spirit of Grace to pursue such a Reformation But then l●et all that Sustain any Publick Office whether Civil or Sacred further carry on the Enqui●y What shall we do to Reform any spreading Evils in the Publick Lei the Pastors of the Churches in their severat Charges Labour Watchfully to prevent all growth of Sin in their Vicinities and the Churches joyn with their Pastors in Sharpening their Discipline against Offences that may arise and in preserving the Liberty and Purity which they have heretofore been clothed withal And Let Justices Grand Jury men Constables Tythingmen have their mutual Consultations to procure the Executions of Good Laws and Remember the Oath of God upon them Were such an Humiliation once obtained Then would our God say I see they have Humbled themselves I will not utterly Destroy them The Land of Canaan is as much as to say in English The Land of the Humbled Oh! if we were universally thus Humbled our Land would soon

I see now ●●●nd before the Lord in this Assem●●●●e Subjects of such a Wonderful De 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ce from your Captivity a Deliver●●●● ●hich hath been Signalized with such Unusual Circumstances Words that are spoken in an Ordinance of the Lord Jesus Christ carry with them a peculiar Efficacy and Authority The Lord Jesus Christ hath by a Surprising Providence of His brought you this Day to wait upon Him in that Great Ordinance which is His Power for the Salvation of our Souls Hear a Servant of the Lord JESUS CHRIST in His Name now Publickly Solemnly calling upon you to make a Right use of the Deliverance wherewith He ha's Highly favoured you The Use which you are to make of it is To Humble your selves before the Lord Exceedingly As you have had the Extraordinary Judgments of God upon you to Humble you so Except His Extraordinary Mercies do likewise Humble you you do but Exceedingly Abuse them The Rich Goodness of God unto you is to Lead you unto Repentance When you were Carried into Captivity We did not say That you were greater Sinners than the rest that yet Escape it You are now Resened from Captivity and must not think That they are greater Sinners who are Left behind in the most barbarous Hands imaginable No you that have been under the Mighty Hand of God are to Humble your selves under that Hand But it you do indeed so I know what you will do You will seriously consider What you shall render to the Lord for all His Benefits And you will sincerely Render your very Selves unto the Lord You are not now the Slaves of Indians as you were a few Dayes ago but if you continue Unhumbled in your Sins you will be the Slaves of Devils and Let me tell you A Slavery to Devils to be in Their Hands is worse than to be in the Hands of Indians I beseech you then by the Mercies of God that you present your selves unto the Lord Jesus Christ Become the sincere Servants of that Lord who by His Blood has brought you out of the Dungeon wherein you were lately Langui●●ing Oh! Deny not the Lord who has thus Bought you out of your Captivity I tell you truly The Lord Expects great Returns of Humiliation of Thankfulness and of Obedience from you and I therefore Leave with you one Sentence of Scripture to be often thought upon 'T is That in Ezra 9.13 14. After all that is come upon us for our Evil Deeds seeing thou our God hast given us such Deliverance as this should we again break thy Commandments wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou hadst Consumed us Now Let all Consider what hath been said and the Lord give us Understanding ●n all things APPENDIX A NARRATIVE of Hannah Swarton Containing Wonderful Passages relating to her Captivity and her Deliverance I Was taken by the Indians when Casco Fort was taken May 1690. My Husband being slain and Four Children taken with me The Eldest of my Sons they killed about two Months after I was taken and the rest Scattered from me I was now left a Widow and as Bereaved of my Children though I had them alive yet it was very seldome that I could see them and I had not Liberty to Discourse with them without Danger either of my own Life or theirs for our Condoling each others Condition and shewing Natural Affection was so displeasing to our Indian Rulers unto whose Share we fell that they would threaten to kill us if we cryed each to other or discoursed much together So that my Condition was like what the Lord threatned the Jews in Ezek. 24.22 23. We durst not Mourn or Weep in the sight of our Enemies lest we lost our own Lives For the first Times while the Enemy feasted on our English Provisions I might have had some with them but then I was so filled with Sorrow and Tears that I had little Stomach to Eat and when my Stomach was come our English Feed was spent and the Indians wanted themselves and we more So that then I was pined with want We had no Corn or Bread but sometimes Groundnuts Ac●rns Pursl●in Hogweel Weeds Roots and sometimes Dogs Flesh but not sufficient to sa●i●●y Hunger with these having but little at a Time We had no success at Hun●ing save that one Bear was killed which I had part of and a very small part of a Tittle I had another time and once an Indian gave me a piece of a Mooses Liver which was a sweet Morsel to me and Fish if we could catch it Thus I continued with them hurried up and down the Wilderness from May 20. till the middle of February Carrying continually a Great Burden in our Travels and I must go their pace or else be killed presently and yet was pinched with Cold for want of Cloathing being put by them into an Indian Dress with a sleight Blanket no Stockings and but one pair of Indian-Shoes and of their Leather Stockings for the Winter My Feet were pricked with sharp Stones and prickly Bushes sometimes and other times Pinched with Snow Cold and Ice that I travelled upon ready to be frozen and faint for want of Food so that many times I thought I could go no further but must ly down and if they would kill me let them kill me Yet then the Lord did so Renew my Strength that I went on still further as my Master would have me and held out with them Though many English were taken and I was brought to some of them at times while we were about Casco Bay and Kennebeck River yet at Norridgawock we were Separated and no English were in our Company but one John York and my self who were both almost Starved fo● want and yet told that if we could not hold up to travel with them they would kill us And accordingly John York growing Weak by his wants they killed him and threatened me with the like One time my Indian Mistress and I were left alone while the rest went to look for Eeles and they left us no Food from Sabbath day Morning till the next Sature-day save that we had a Bladder of Moose I think which was well filled with Maggots and we boiled it and drank the Broth but the Bladder was so tough we could not eat it On the Saturday I was sent by my Mistress to that part of the Island most likely to see some Canoo and there to make Fire and Smoke to invite some Indians if I could spy any to come to Relieve us and I espied a Canoo and by Signs invited them to come to the Shore It proved to be some Squaw's who understanding our wants one of them gave me a Roasted Eel which I eat and it seemed unto me the most Savoury Food I ever tasted before Sometimes we lived on Wortle burr●es s●metimes on a kind of Wild Cherry which grew on Bushes which I was sent to gather once in so bitter a Cold season that I was not