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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 3: RULE III.
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.
Did not the Jews with uninterrupted and unwearied Clamours, urge their Governor, against our Lord Jesus Christ, never ceasing their Out-cries, Let him be crucified! until they had their Will? Thus do you never leave Seeking and Sighing and Shouting unto God, Lord, this Corruption is worthy to dye; it is a Traitor to thy Kingdom in me; O by no means let it Reign and Rave in me as forgery: Thus beg until God give Order, The Rebel shall dye.
Did not the Jews with uninterrupted and unwearied Clamours, urge their Governour, against our Lord Jesus Christ, never ceasing their Out-cries, Let him be crucified! until they had their Will? Thus do you never leave Seeking and Sighing and Shouting unto God, Lord, this Corruption is worthy to dye; it is a Traiter to thy Kingdom in me; O by no meanes let it Reign and Rave in me as for•ery: Thus beg until God give Order, The Rebel shall dye.
Furthermore did they dra• up many heavy ⟨p. 73⟩Indictments against our Lord Christ▪ as guilty of Treason and Sedition, and Blasphemy and Heresy, and the most villainous Impostures in the World? Well, so do you lay unto the Charge of your Lust all the Dishonour to GOD, and all the Destruction to you and yours, which it has procured, Say, Thou vile Corruption, Thou art it that hast made a Partition-Wall between me and my GOD; Thou art it that hast exposed me unto all the Curses in the Flying Roll; Nothing has done so much wrong to GOD, or to me, or to all Heaven and Earth, as Thou.
Furhermore did they dra• up many heaheavy ⟨p. 73⟩Indictments against our Lord Christ▪ as guilty of Treason and Sedition, and Blasphemy and Heresy, and the most villainous Impostures in the World? Well, so do you lay unto the Charge of your Lust all the Dishonour to GOD, and all the Destruction to you and yours, which it has procured, Say, Thou vile Corruption, Thou art it that hast made a Partition-Wall between me and my GOD; Thou art it that hast exposed me unto all the Curses in the Flying Roll; Nothing has done so much wrong to GOD, or to me, or to all Heaven and Earth, as Thou.