At a sessions of the General Court held at Boston the 3d. of November 1675. This court being in some measure sensible of the hand of the Lord being stretched forth against us in the way of his judgments, by sickness and war shortning our numbers ... This court doth appoint and set apart the second day of December next to be kept a day of solemn humiliation and prayer throughout the severall churches, congregations and town in this colony ... Massachusetts. General Court. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09497 of text W15038 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing M980A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09497 Wing M980A ESTC W15038 69648756 ocm 69648756 184989 2248534417

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this EEBO-TCP Phase II text, in whole or in part.

 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B09497) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184989) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2883:12) At a sessions of the General Court held at Boston the 3d. of November 1675. This court being in some measure sensible of the hand of the Lord being stretched forth against us in the way of his judgments, by sickness and war shortning our numbers ... This court doth appoint and set apart the second day of December next to be kept a day of solemn humiliation and prayer throughout the severall churches, congregations and town in this colony ... Massachusetts. General Court. 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. s.n., [Boston : 1675] Signed: "By the court, Edward Rawson Secret." Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Colonial seal at head of title. Reproduction of original in: Massachusetts Historical Society Library. eng Fasts and feasts -- Massachusetts -- Early works to 1800. Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Broadsides -- Massachusetts -- 17th century. eebo At a sessions of the General Court held at Boston the 3d. of November 1675. This court being in some measure sensible of the hand of the Lord being st Massachusetts. General Court 1675 2 448 1 0 0 0 0 0 22.32 C The rate of 22.32 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2013-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-11 Sampled and proofread 2013-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

SIGILLVM GVB ET SOCIET DE MATTACHVSETS BAY IN NOVA ANGLIA

great seal of Massachusetts from 1675

AT A SESSIONS of the General Court held at BOSTON the 3 d. of November 1675.

THis Court being in some measure sensible of the hand of the Lord being stretched forth against us in the way of his Judgments , by Sickness and War shortning our numbers , wasting the Substance of this Wilderness People , and that justly , for that we have neither answered former mercyes , nor hearkned to lesser strokes , that the causes of his displeasure are too visible yet with us , not only by morall Transgressions , found among us , but that we have been found wanting in walking up to Gospel enjoyments , Professions , and the rules thereof given by our Lord Jesus , being wanting in love to him , and one unto an other , not carying it to others as we would they should doe to us : and for that we know it is not in us to repent and reform our selves , or to provoke others thereto , or be examples to them therein as we should , and well knowing that it is the gift of our blessed Lord Jesus to give repentance and remission of Sins , who is exalted for that end to be a Prince and a Saviour , and will be sought unto for the same ; and that if it be the blessed will of God , we may be so favoured by him , we do hereby stir up our selves , and all the People of this Colony to cry mightily to God for this great blessing , and that we may be joyn● therein ,

This Court doth appoint and set apart the second day of December next to be kept a day of solemn Humiliation and Prayer throughout the severall Churches , Congregations and Towns in this Colony : and all persons in their respective places , Magistrates , Ministers , and people , young and old are required to attend the same , forbearing all servile labour thereon , and are earnestly desired that we may all labour heartily to be hearty herein before the Lord , and implore his grace and favour , that he would be pleased yet to appear for his poor People by those that are already imployed , or may be sent forth against the Enemy , that they may be enabled to fight the Lords Battles , and find his gracious presence with them , making his Arm glorious and victorious over his and our Enemyes .

By the COURT , Edward Rawson Secret.