Thus it pleased God to vanquish their enemies and give them deliverance; and by His special providence so to dispose that not any one of them were either hurt or hit, though their arrows came close by them and on every side [of] them; and sundry of their coats, which hung up in the barricade, were shot through and through. Afterwards they gave God solemn thanks and praise for their deliverance, and gathered up a bundle of their arrows and sent them into England afterward by the master of the ship, and called that place the First Encounter.
This passage impressed me because before this they encountered the Indians, who shot arrows at them and tried to injure them. But by the deliverance and grace of God they made it out unharmed and alive. God delivered them from evil, and saved them from pain or death. They also named that place the First Encounter, meaning the first place where the Indians encountered warlike behavior from the Natives.
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