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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

Express it Then came to mind the History of the Transfiguring of Christ and Peters saying Math. 17.4 Lord It is Good for us to be here I thought it was Good for me to be here and I was so full of Comfort and Joy I even Wished I could be so alwayes and never sleep or else Dy in that Rapture of Joy and never Live to Sin any more against the Lord. Now I thought God was my God and my Sins were pardoned in Christ and now I thought I could Suffer for Christ yea Dye for Christ or do any thing for Him My Sins had been a Burden to me I desired to see all my Sins and to Repent of them all with all my Heart and of that Sin which had been especially a Burden to me namely That I Left the Publick Worship and Ordinances of God to go to Live in a Remote Place without the Publick Ministry depriving our selves our Children of so great a Benefit for our Souls and all this for Worldly advantages I found an Heart to Repent of them all and to lay hold of the Blood of Christ to cleanse me from them all I found much Comfort while I was among the French by the Opportunities I had sometimes to Read the Scriptures and other Good Books and Pray to the Lord in Secret and the Conference that some of us Captives had together about things of God and Prayer together sometimes especially with one that was in the same House with me Margaret Stilson Then was the Word of God precious to us and they that feared the LORD spake one to another of it as we had Opportunity And Coloned Tyng and Mr. Alden as they were permitted did speak to us to Conf●●m and Strengthen us in the wayes of the Lord. At length the French debatr'd our coming together for Religious Conference or other Duties And Word was sent us by Mr. Alden That this was one kind of Persecution that we must suffer for Christ These are some of the Scriptures which have been my Support and Comfort in the Affliction of my Captivity among the Papists That in Ezek. 16.6 8. I applyed unto my self and I desired to Enter into Covenant with God and to be His And I Prayed to the Lord and Hoped the Lord would Return me to my Country again That I might Enter into Covenant with Him among His People and Enjoy Communion with Him in His Churches and Publick Ordinances Which Prayers the Lord hath now heard and graciously Answered Praised be His Name The Lord Enable me to Live suitably unto His Mercy and to those Publick and Precious Priviledges which I now Enjoy So That in Ezek 11.16 17. was a Great Comfort unto me in my Captivity Although I have cast them far off among the Heathen yet will I be a little Sanctuary to them I will gather you from the People where you have been Scattered I found that God was a Little Sanctuary to me there and hoped that the Lord would bring me to the Country from whence I had been Scattered And the Lord hath heard the Prayer of the Destitute and not despised my Prayer but granted me the Desire of my Soul in bringing me to His House and my Relations again I often thought on the History of the man Born Blind of whom Christ when His Disciples asked Whether this man had Sinned or his Parents answered Neither this man nor his Parents but this was that the works of God might be made manifest in him So tho' I had deserved all this yet I knew not but one Reason of Gods bringing all these Afflictions and Miseries upon me and then Enabling me to bear them was That the Works of God might be made manifest And in my Great Distress I was Revived by that in Psal 118.17 18. I shall not Dy but Live and Declare the works of the Lord The Lord hath chasten'd 〈◊〉 sore but He hath not given me over to Death I had very often a secret perswasion That I should Live to Declare the Works of the Lord. And 2 Chron. 6.36 37 38 39. was a precious Scripture to me in the Day of Evil. We have Read over and Pray'd over this Scripture together and Talk'd together of this Scripture Margaret and I How the Lord hath Promised Though they were Scattered for their Sins yet there should be a Return if they did Bethink themselves and Turn and Pray So we did Bethink our selves in the Land where we were Garried Captive did Turn did Pray and Endeavour to Return to God with all our Hearts And as they were to Pray towards the Temple I took it that I should Pray towards Christ and accordingly did so and hoped the Lord would Hear and He hath Heard from Heaven His Dwelling Place my Prayer and Supplication and mentained my Cause and not Rejected me but Returned me And Oh! how affectionate was my Reading of the Eighty Fourth Psalm in this Condition The means of my Deliverance were by reason of Letters that had pass●d between the Governments of New-England and of Canada Mr. Cary was sent with a Vessel to fetch Captives from Quebeck and when he came I among others with my youngest Son had our Liberty to come away And by Gods Blessing upon us we Arrived in Safety at Boston in November 1695. our Desired Haven And I desire to Praise the Lord for His Goodness and for His Wonderful Works to me Yet still I have left behind Two Children a Daughter of Twenty Years old at Mont Royal whom I had not seen in Two years before I came away and a Son of Nineteen years old whom I never saw since we parted the next morning after we were taken I earnestly Request the Prayers of my Christian Friends that the Lord will deliver them What shall I render to the Lord for all His Benefits FINIS

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