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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 [sic], 13.d. 7.m. 1686. / By Cotton Mather, Pastor of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of quotations in Latin]Military duties, recommended to an artillery company; at their election of officers, in Charls-town [sic], 13.d. 7.m. 1686. / By Cotton Mather, Pastor of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of quotations in Latin]
printed by Richard Pierce, 1687
MILITARY DUTIES Laid before A TRAINED BAND 13. d. 7. m. 1686. › Application 5 › Rule 1: RULE. I.
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It is very proper to begin with the Caution which Doctor Gamaliel gave to the Jewish Sanhedrin, (in Act. 5.39.) Be not found to fight against God. Until men are brought unto the Experience of a Conversion to and a Covenant with God in Jesus Christ, all the Affairs of a Christian Warfare will be no less unsuitable than unacceptable to them. All Unregenerate men which •ive in KNOWN Sins are so fa•• ⟨p. 53⟩from war•ing and fighting against the Armies of Hell, that they desperately set themselves in Battle Array against the infinite GOD. The black Description of every Impenitent Transgressor is that in Job. 15.25, 26. He stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty, He runneth upon Him, even upon his Neck, upon the thick Bosses of his Buckler. O that these foolish & unwise kind of people would now be persuaded to bethink themselves! What a prodigious Frenzy is this, for them that lately came out of the Creating hands to cast themselves into the Avenging hands of God! The First and the ••st Direction that can be given to these Children of Folly, is,
It is very proper to begin with the Caution which Doctor Gamaliel gave to the Jewish Sanhedri•, (in Act. 5.39.) Be not found to fight against God. Until men are brought unto the Experience of a Conversion to and a Covenant with God in Jesus Christ, all the Affayrs of a Christian Wa•fare will be no less unsuitable than unacceptable to them. All Vnregenerate men which •ive in KNOWN Sins are so fa•• ⟨p. 53⟩from war•ing and fighting against the Armies of Hell, that they desperately set themselves in Battle Array against the infinite GOD. The black Description of every Impenitent Transgressor is that in