Military duties recommended to an artillery company

Become furnished with that Armour for your Warring and Fighting, which God in His blessed Word hath provided for you.

There is a Tower of Solomon, wherein God hath hanged up Thousands of Shields & all the Weapons of strong men. See to thi• that you do only put on the ARMOUR OF GOD, and that you have all your Armour to be both of God's Institution, and of God's Constitution also. Let GOD be Acknowledged as the Appoint•r of all your Weapons. The Will-Worship, the fond Amulets, and Penances• of the Papists, no less than the Phylacteries of the Jews, are to be exploded as most trifling Insignificancies, and the Ridicules of those very Enemies whose Terror they are calculated for. A funeral Elegy for those wretched Warriors we have in Fzek. 32. 27. They go down to Hell with their Weapons of war▪ they have laid their Swords under their heads, but their Iniquities shall be upon their bones. You have no need to go down to the Forges of the Philistines for the Weapons of you• Souls. Whatever shall be offered as a serviceable Weapon for you, which you have not the Warrant of GOD for the using of, throw it by, as David rejected Sauls cumbersome useless Armour. Let God also be Acknowledged a• the Bestower of all your Weapons. It is affirmed concerning one eminent piece of your Armour in Eph. 2. 8. It is ⟨p. 62⟩the gift of GOD. Let that be your Sentiment of every Weapon which you shall have occasion for, It will do me no good unless, God be the Framer and Giver of it. Ever account a Weapon to be of no good Metal, if it come not thro' the hands of that God, without whom you can do nothing at all. Unless we look to this, the great Leviathan of Hell, will esteem our Iron to be but Straw; and our Brass but as Rotten Wood.