Military duties recommended to an artillery company

Cry mightily to GOD in CHRIST, that by Strength from Him you may be made Conquerors and more than Conquerors over the Enemies of your souls.

Cry mightily to GOD in CHRIST, that by Strength from Him you may be made Conquerers and more than Conquerers over the Enemies of your souls.

When the Apostle had Armed his Christian Soldier from head to foot, he then concluded, Pray always, and watch thereunto (a military Order, take not a wink of sleep) with all Perseverance. O cry mightily to God, for the Weapons of your War-fare are mighty thro' God alone. The best posture for you, wherein to War and to Fight against your Soul-Enemies, is (that wherein a wounded thought-dead Soldier once gave a mortal stab unto a proud Conqueror that was pleasing ⟨p. 76⟩himself with a View of them whom he had slain) upon your Knees: In the midst of your Encounters, use to do as the Emperor Theodosius did in the Extremities of a furious dubious Battle; betake your selves to importunate Prayers for Succour from above; be praying Jacobs, and you shall be prevailing Israels. If any Temptation be more than or dinarily violent in besieging of you, do like those Warriors in 1. Chron. 5. 20. Cry to God in the Battle; and therewithal put your trust in Him: do as Paul saith he did in such a case, (in 2. Cor. 12. 8.) I besought the Lord thrice; perhaps he kept three days of Prayer. And O let the Spirit of Prayer cause you to fill your lives with frequent and fervent Prayers unto God, that He would gird you with Strength unto all your Battles and subdue under you those that rise up against you I would conclude my Sermon as the Martyr used his Letters, O pray, pray, pray. You cannot contrive a more effectual preservative from the Hurts of Temptation than Prayer; daily, wrestling, Restless Prayer. The infamous Day of Origen's foul Apostasy, was a day whereon he had been remiss in his morning Prayers. I will not tell you Nazianzen's Story of what a Devil was forced to own