At a General Court held at Boston May 8. 1678 : This Court, considering how the Lord hath been pleased of late years ... to humble, and bring low his poor people in this wilderness ... do appoint Thursday, the sixt day of June next ensuing, to be solemnly kept as a day of humiliation and prayer, throughout this jurisdiction

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