brought home unto God, and the Reputation of _no one_ good Person in the World, has been damaged, but instead thereof the Souls of many, especially of the rising Generation, have been thereby awaken'd unto some acquaintance with _Religion_, our young People who belonged unto the _Praying Meetings_ of both Sexes, a part would ordinarily spend whole _Nights_ by whole Weeks together in _Prayers_ and Psalms upon these occasions, in which Devotions the Devils could get nothing but like _Fools a Scourge for their own Backs_, and some scores of other young People who were strangers to real Piety, were now struck with the lively demonstrations of _Hell_ evidently set forth before their Eyes, when they saw Persons cruelly Frighted, wounded and Starved by Devils and Scalded with burning _Brimstone_, and yet so preserved in this tortured estate as that at the end of one Months wretchedness they were as able still to undergo another, so that of these also it might now be said, Behold they Pray in the whole--the Devil got just nothing; but God got praises, Christ got Subjects, the Holy Spirit got _Temples_, the Church got _Addition_, and the Souls of Men got everlasting _Benefits_; I am not so vain as to say that any _Wisdome_ or _Vertue_ of mine did contribute unto this good order of things: But I am so just, as to say I did not hinder this Good.[13] When therefore there have been those that pickt up little incoherent scraps and bits of my _Discourses_ in this fruitful discharge of my Ministry, and so traversted 'em in their abusive _Pamphlets_, as to perswade the Town that I was their _common Enemy_ in those very points, wherein, if in any one thing whatsoever I have sensibly approved myself as true a Servant unto 'em as possibly I could, tho my Life and Soul had been at Stake for it. Yea to do like _Satan_ himself, by sly, base, unpretending _Insinuations_, as if I wore not the Modesty and Gravity which became a Minister of the Gospel, I could not but think myself unkindly dealt withal, and the neglects of _others_ to do me _justice_ in this affair has caused me to conclude this Narrative with complaints in _another hearing_ of such Monstrous Injuries.[32] FOOTNOTES: [20] There were two noted Christian Indians on Martha's Vineyard a little previous to the Time the Above was written; viz., _Hiacoomes_ and _John Tokinosh_. It is to one of these, probably, that the Writer refers. See _Book of the Indians_, B. ii, 118; or p. 182, Edition 1851. See also Appendix to _Elect. Serm._ of 1698, p. 90, _et seq._ [21] Perhaps Capt. Thomas Tupper. See _Noyes's Election Sermon_, 1698, p. 95. There were also _Eldad_ and Samuel T.--Sewall's _MSS._ [22] Nothing is learned of this Person beyond what is to be found in this Work. There were Persons early at Newbury of the same Name. [23] If the learned Author were living at this Day he would doubtless gladly blot out many Pages of his own Matter, as being a more _dirty_ Work than any he then complained of.