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…

Wherefore, First, Know that your Quarrel is Just. Indeed the Call and Press of your Superiors; is enough to justify you in doing of your part, for prosecuting of the War. If the injustice of a War be notoriously Evident and Apparent, Judicious Casuists then determine, that every private Soldier is to declare his own Dissatisfaction, and render himself rather Passive than Active in it, and Suffer, sooner than Engage; like Sauls Footmen, when bidden to fall upon the Priests of the Lord. But where a War is not thus evidently and apparently unjust, the private Soldier must use an Implicit Reliance on the Command of the Supreme Power: They must answer for it.

Wherefore, First, Know that your Quarrel is Iust. Indeed the Call and Press of your Superiours; is enough to justify you in doing of your part, for prosecuting of the War. If the injustice of a War be notoriously Evident and Apparent, Judicious C•suists then determine, that every private Souldier is to declare his own Dissatisfaction, and render himself rather Passive than Active in it, and Suffer, sooner than Engage; like Sauls Footmen, when bidden to fall upon the Priests of the Lord. But where a War is not thus evidently and apparently unjust, the private Souldier must use an Implicit Reliance on the Command of the Supream Power: They must answer for it.

☞ Besides this; Your Superiors themselves have also enough and enough to justify Them, in pushing on the present War, with the utmost Expedition and Extremity. Such were the obscure measures taken at that time of Day, that the Rise of this War, hath been as dark as that of the River Nilus; only the Generality of Thinking people through' the Country, can remember when and why every one did foretell, A War. If any wild English (for there are such as well as of another Nation) did then, begin to provoke and Affront the Indians, ⟨p. 30⟩yet those Indians had a fairer way to come by Right, than that of Blood-shed; nothing worthy of, or calling for any such Revenge was done unto them. The most injured among them all, (if there were any such) were afterwards dismissed by the English, with Favours that were then admirable even to our selves; and These too, instead of surrendering the persons, did (as we are credibly informed) increase the Numbers, of the Murderers. But upon the Revolution of the Government, the State of the War, became wholly New; and we are more arrived unto Righteousness as the Light, and Justice as the Noon Day. When the Helm of this little Vessel was taken out of the Hands of those whose palpable Enmity to the Glorious Designs of His Highness the Prince of Orange, added unto the innumerable Oppressions and Vexations which we had sustained under them, had made us as Suspicious as we were Ignorant, what Port they intended for; we then found our selves actually Entangled in a War. A Great Sachem of the East, we then immediately applied our selves unto, and with no small Expenses to our selves, we Engaged Him, to Employ his Interest for a good understanding between us and the Party of Indians then in Hostility against us. This was the Likely, the Only Way, of coming at those Wandering Salvages; But that very Sachem now treacherously (by whose Advice, I know not) of an Ambassador became a Traitor, and annexed himself with his