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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
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.
CONSIDER, 2.
That Military Discipline is also a Needful thing.
It was a true Remark of the ancient Grecian, That, A Common-Wealth wherein there is not a plenty of Military men, is as a Body without Sinews. A Wall of Stones about a City or a Country is good for little without a Wall of Bones defending of it. — Hi sunt Spartae maenia. It is threatened as a very direful Plague unto a Land in Isa. 3.2. The Lord of Hosts doth take away the men of War therefrom. Why should any of us have an hand in bringing such a plague on the Land wherein we live.
It was a true Remark of the ancient Grecian, That, A Common-Wealth wherein there is not a plenty of Military men, is as a Body without Sinews. A Wall of Stones about a City or a Countrey is good for little without a Wall of Bones defending of it. — Hi sunt Spartae maenia. It is threatned as a very direful Plague unto a Land in Isa. 3.2. The Lord of Hosts doth take away the men of War therefrom. Why should any of us have an hand in bringing such a plague on the Land wherein we live.