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dent and plain that God rules the hearts of men and there
hearts at that time he moved them to give up for they
might have kept us out and destroyed us if we had gone on
in the way we had just before considered upon.
11^^. Another remarkable thing : the very daj, next
after we had taken possession rain and foggy dark weather
8 or 9 days together, and there had not been so much rain
by half in 47 days as now in 4 days which would doubtless
have scattered our fleet and army and given an opportunity
to the French vessels to have got into the harbor and would
have sickened and discouraged if not broke up our designs,
if it had come before. These things considered together
with many others that might be mentioned doth plainly
show that God has gone out of the way of his common
Providence in a remarkable and almost miraculous manner
; it is plain to anybody that will consider and think of
these things that the Lord of Hosts, the God of armies
hath both began, carried on and finished this great work,
and delivered this strong city into our hands.
My hearty desire and prayer is that as long as I have a
being I may give the great name of God the praise of it,
that he has written Salvation for New England.
A List of the names of my soldiers are as follows :
I received ten shillings
old tenor.