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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 a discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged in the just war of New-England against the northern & eastern Indians, Sept. 1, 1689 / by Cotton Mather ...Souldiers counselled and comforted a discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged in the just war of New-England against the northern & eastern Indians, Sept. 1, 1689 / by Cotton Mather ...
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1689
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.
Proposition I. To have their Lives in their Hands, is a Condition which the Children of Men are liable unto.
There is indeed a Threefold Condition which brings the Lives of Men into the Hands of Men; with a Gradual Descent from Generals to Specials, it may be set before you.
The first Condition of this kind, is, that of All Men: Accordingly our Observation is,
1. Men have their Lives brought into their their Hands, in point of Mortality. Our Lives are come out from our Hearts unto our Hands; and they are in a sort ready to shake Hands with us. Our Lives do as it were take us by our Hands, and say, Well, I am going, Fare you well.
Our Lives are come into our Hands for the Brevity of them. Once indeed there was a Longevity in Fallen Man that seemed almos• Emulous of that Immortality, which Upright man should have had experience of. The Antediluvian Patriarchs might have broke up Company, with probable Agreements to have met again in the same Place and Form an Hundred Years afterwards. But that LONG LIFE, i