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148 3/Zemoir of
and prayer, not only because it appeared to be
a time of "sore trouble and hazard to the peo-
ple of God in general, through the present por-
tending commotions and combinations among
the nations of Europe, threatening no less than
war and blood, with all the innumerable evils
which do attend the same, but also that our
own dear nation stands so particularly involved,
whose sufferings we are deeply bound to reckon
as our own, and further, cannot but expect, that,
as we are of the same nation, and many ways
dependent thereon, so also must needs be suf-
ferers with them," and besides this public fast,
it was ordered that the General Court should
"keep a day of humiliation together, in the
Court House, on the 22a inst., and that Mr.
Whiting, Sen r, with five other clergymen should
carry on the work of that day by prayer and
preaching." _*
About I673, Rev. Joseph Whiting, youngest
son of the venerable pastor, was married to
Sarah, daughter of Deputy-Governor Thomas
Danforth, and thus brought a new attraction to
*" 4 Mass. Rec, 508.