Military duties recommended to an artillery company

Est Leo si fugias; si stas, quasi musca recedet.

Or rather as the Apostle has it more certainly, and more divinely, Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

Or rather as the Apostle has it more certainly, and more divinely, Resist the Divel, and he will flee from you.

Wherefore, Let it be your daily Endeavour, That the Word of Christ may dwell richly in you; and that you may have the Texts of it as ready as the Names of those that dwell in the same Houses with you; or, as ready as that honest man, of whom Alsted, I think, somewhere saith, If all the Bible had been lost, it might have been in a good measure recovered by that good man's Readiness therein. Let not a Day ordinarily pass you, wherein you will not Read some portion of it, with a due Meditation and Supplication over it. The Ethiopian Nobleman would not omit this Exercise, even when he was on a Journey. And he that shall accustom himself while he reads in his Retirements, to fetch at least one Note & one Wish out of every Verse as he goes along, will perhaps take as speedy a course as any man whatever to become a well-armed Christian. He was a Soldier and an Emperor too, that wrote out the New-Testament with his own Hand. And that gracious Man, Mr. Thomas Stoughton, asserts that he knew a young Gentlewoman, who before she was Nine years old, could say it All by heart. It will be our shame, if this •o-edged Sword be not often in our Hands and Hearts, and become like our Necessary Food unto us. And that Prince of Transylvania who ⟨p. 69⟩read •ver the Bible Seven & twenty Times, wi• condemn us if our Eyes are seldom placed o this Heavenly Sword. It was a dark time with the Church of God, when One was pronounced most Sufficient, at his Commencing Doctor of Divinity, tho he had never Read the Bible. Sure I am no man can be a Sufficient Soldier in Christianity, unless This be the man of his Counsel.