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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.
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All these Weapons are Defensive only.
All these Weapons are Def•nsive only.
At least we must have One to Offend our Adversary with; Where is our SWORD? This it is, Take the Sword of the Spirit which is the WORD OF GOD. This, our English Josiah, is reported to have called for, under the Term of a Third Sword when two Swords were presented him at his Coronation. You are blessed wit• •he free Use of a Bible, which is a spiritu• •word word, Shaped by the Inspiration of the eternal SPIRIT. This is a Sword of which I may say, as David of Goliath's, There is none like it. Here is a sort of Sword, whereof it may be ⟨p. 66⟩said unto every man, He that hath not such • Sword, let him sell his Garment & buy one. The pious Husband-man who in a Scarcity of such now-common-slighted Treasures, gave a Load of Hay for a Leaf of the Bible, for even a few Filings of this Sword, has justified this Advice. Our Lord Jesus Christ hath by his own Example showed you how to wield this Sword and manage it unto the Vanquishment of all Satanical Invasions: When the principal Tempter tried His Over-throw by proposing to him a Three-fold Bait of the same three Allurements which proved mortal to the First Adam, He still came of a Victor, by opposing an, It is WRITTEN, thereunto; and all the Swords or Words of this kind, used by Him, were fetched out of that one Book of Deuteronomy, from whence we may collect how rich a Supply for our War the whole Bible then will afford unto us. Let this be our Method against the joint Fraud and Force of our wily Enemies. Whenever they urge us to any evil thing, still have some pertinent Text of the Bible to reply upon them. All the Commandments, all the Promises, all the Menaces in the Bible are like so many Swords all-Edge to be-friend you in this Concern. Thus particularly: Are you tempted unto