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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.
Get out of your unrenewed Estate, and Make Ready, that at the first Alarm ere long, you may have nothing to Do, but, Fight and Dy.
Get out of your unrenewed Estate, and Make Ready, that at the first Alarum e're long, you may have nothing to Do, but, Fight and Dy.
Secondly, Let them be none but Pure-hands in which you carry your Lives. We read in Isa. 1.15. When you spread forth your Hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; for your Hands are full of Blood. Even so, there are Hands full of Luxury, there are Hands full of Injustice; but those Hands are not clean enough for your Lives to be carried in them. Wherefore as 'tis said, in James 4.8. Cleanse your Hands, ye Sinners: Let me call upon you, Cleanse your Hands, ye Soldiers. Let there be no Uncleanness, no Disorder found in your Hands. Endeavour to have a pure Camp; and be Like the Host of God. We read sometimes of a Church in an House; Why should you not as well study a Church in a Camp? Keep your Camp as free from Swearing, Drinking, Gaming, Rioting, and Sabbath-keeping, as any Church in the World; and let God be worshipped in your Camp as frequently, as Devoutly as in a Church. This, this will render you Terrible as an Army ⟨p. 26⟩with Banners. You may have Military Valour enough to conquer an Indian; but you must also have Christian Valour to subdue a Lust. When Peter had Armed people round about him, how nimbly, how stoutly did he draw upon them! but presently after a sorry Damosel made him give way to that which Broke all his Bones. O be so Valiant, as to put out of your Hands, all that may not be Convenient for the Lives which you carry there.
Secondly, Let them be none but Pure-hands in which you carry your Lives. We read in Isa. 1.15. When you spread forth your Hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; for your Hands are full of Blood. Even so, there are Hands full of Luxury, there are Hands full of Injustice; but those Hands are not clean enough for your Lives to be carried in them. Wherefore as 'tis said, in