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Military duties recommended to an artillery company
Military duties recommended to an artillery company; at their election of officers, in Charles-town, 13. d. 7. m. 1686. By Cotton Mather, pastor of a church in Boston.Military duties recommended to an artillery company; at their election of officers, in Charls-town, 13. d. 7. m. 1686. By Cotton Mather, pastor of a church in Boston.
printed by Richard Pierce, 1687
MILITARY DUTIES Laid before A TRAINED BAND 13. d. 7. m. 1686. › Rule 4: RULE IV.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
and every day let your private and Secret Groans be sent up to your Eternal Helper on this Errand; Yea, let scarce one waking hour in the day pass you without Shooting over the Camp of them that are strictly beleaguering of you, Requests tied to the Arrows of ejaculatory Prayer, that God would not be far from you; Happy is the man that has his quiver full of these arrows. O Pray and plead as he in 2. Chron. 20. 12. Lord, I know not what to do, but my eyes are up unto thee. And while you thus pray without ceasing, Exercise a true Faith on the Blood of Jesus ⟨p. 78⟩Christ as the, meritorious Cause of all your Successes, which Blood will more dismay and and confound all the Behemoths of Hell. than the Sight of Blood could the Elephants in the Maccabees of old. And exercise a strong Faith on the Grace of Jesus Christ, as both enabling and inclining of Him to succour them that are Tempted as He once was Himself, which Grace is engaged to be sufficient for you. Thus Pray and War and Fight, until you come to shout as dying disconsolate Mr. Welsh did, when the Word Victory came from the mouth of the person that prayed with him, and he catched hold on it with over-powering never-ending Joy, Crying Victory, Victory, Victory now forevermore. Yea, leave not off, till you come to say with Paul. I have fought the good Fight, there is now laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness. Amen.
and every day let your private and Secret Groans be sent up to your Eternal Helper on this Errand; Yea, let scarce one waking hour in the day pass you without Shooting over the Camp of them that are strictly beleaguring of you, Requests ty'd to the Arrows of ejaculatory Prayer, that God would not be farr from you; Happy is the man that has his quiver full of these arrowes. O Pray and plead as he in 2. Chron. 20. 12. Lord, I know not what to do, but my eyes are up unto thee. And while you thus pray without ceasing, Exercise a true Faith on the Bloud of Jesus ⟨p. 78⟩Christ as the, meritorious Cause of all your Successes, which Bloud will more dismay and and confound all the Behemoths of Hell. than the Sight of Bloud could the Elephants in the Macc•bees of old. And exercise a strong Faith on the Grace of Jesus Christ, as both enableing and enclining of Him to succour them that are Tempted as He once was Himself, which Grace is engaged to be sufficient for you. Thus Pray and Warr and Fight, until you come to shout as dying disconsolate Mr. Welch did, when the Word Victory came from the mouth of the person that pray'd with him, and he catch'd hold on it with over-powering never-ending Joy, Crying Victory, Victory, Victory now forevermore. Yea, leave not off, till you come to say with Paul. I have fought the good Fight, there is now laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness. Amen.