Soldiers counselled and comforted a discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged…Souldiers counselled and comforted a discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged…

Soldiers Counselled and Comforted▪ It is written in PSAL. CXIX.109. My Soul is continually in my Hand; yet I do not forget thy Law.

Souldiers Counselled and Comforted▪ It is written in PSAL. CXIX.109. My Soul is continually in my Hand; yet I do not forget thy Law.

WHEN there was made unto the famous and faithful John of old, that Application whereof we have that Account in Luc. 3.14. The Soldiers demanded of Him, saying, What shall we do? We find that He left them not without those Divine Words of Command ▪ which He thought proper and useful for them. 'Tis in Conformity to his Great and Good Example, that I count my self under Obligations at this Time to attempt the satisfaction and answer the Expectation of the Soldiers, whose worthy Leader has brought them into this ⟨p. 2⟩Assembly, that they might hear a short Sermon adapted unto Their peculiar Circumstances. We are informed in the Sacred Pages, that in the Expedition of the Israelites against the Canaanites, There came down those that Handled the Pen of the Writer. 'Tis the unhappiness of the Expedition which we are at this day concerned in, that our present and pressing Dangers involve every person some way in it. Even Scholars must either Accompany or Encourage Soldiers; and they that have handled none but Pens, must either carry or sharpen Swords. We are in the Briars of a Perplexity, wherein, Omnis Home Miles est, Every man is in his way to bear Arms; and Those that I have to assist you with, I must fetch out of that Christian Panoply the Holy Bible.