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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 2: RULE. II.
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.
You have then a Breast-plate to take care for: For This, (in imitation of your General) put on Righteousness as a Breastplate. O labour to preserve the Vitals of your Inner-man harmless, by endeavouring not only to render all men their Dues, but to keep a Conscience void of Offence towards GOD as well as towards man. A work of real thorough Sanctification in the soul of a man, will be as Aes triplex circa Pectus, as Armour of Proof upon the Heart in an evil day.
You have then a Breast-plate to take care for: For This, (in imitation of your General) put on Righteousnes as a Breastplate. O labour to preserve the Vitals of your Inner-man harmless, by endeavouring not only to render all men their Dues, but to keep a Conscience void of Offence towards GOD as well as towards man. A work of real thorough Sanctification in the soul of a man, will be as Aes triplex circa Pectus, as Armour of Proof upon the Heart in an evil day.
A Sufficient pair of Shoes are next to be procured. It is a rough cragged thorny way that we have to go. Well, Be shod with the Pr• paration of tho Gospel of peace: The Gospel of God, which is a Gospel of Peace; Bringing the Intelligence and producing the Settlement o• ⟨p. 64⟩a Peace betwixt God and man; This exhibit unto us those Counsels and those Comforts which will be a good Preparative against the Worst that can befall us: O lay up a store of these; and so say, Tho' War should rise against me, in these will I be confident,
A Sufficient pair of Shoes are next to be procured. It is a rough cragged thorny way that we have to go. Well, Be shod with the Pr• paration of tho Gospel of peace: The Gospel of God, which is a Gospel of Peace; Bringing the Intelligence and producing the Settlement o• ⟨p. 64⟩