Military duties, recommended to an artillery company

ADVICE. I.

It seems good Prudence to be most Attent on and Accurate in that piece of Military Discipline which is most Necessary.;

It seems good Prudence to be most Attent on and Accurate in that peice of Military Discipline which is most Necessary.;

Or most accommodated for the SAFETY of the place which we belong unto. We have such a Parenthesis in the Preface of David's Elegy over Saul and Jonathan, 2. Sam. 1.18. He had them teach the Children of Judah the — Bow. Some take that Word, the Bow, to be only the Title of the e•s•eing Song. But others thus conceive of it: The Philistines ⟨p. 22⟩had made fearful Slaughter among the Israelites by their being curious Archers; and the study of David now was to have the Israelites out-shoot the Philistines in their own Bow. All that you shall now hear of this matter from one whose highest military Attainment is that he counts Military Discipline a thing not to be despised, is only This: There is a swarthy Generation of Philistines here, the Indian Natives, I mean, whom alone we are like to have any Wars withal. These Salvages have (not long since) butchered several Hundreds in these Plantations; in that bloody gloomy day, when the Alarm of War was heard, and it was said, Sword, go through the Land, the Cannibals had many an Hellish Feast of English Flesh; and the main thing wherein the wild Creatures out-did us and un-did us was this, They were very yare Marks-men, and every tree was a Fort from whence they took their Aims. If ever those now-wounded Chaldeans should make an Attempt again upon us, there will be few Words of Command used, unless those two, Make ready, and Give fire. The best Marks-man will then be the best Soldier: The Benjamites that can shoot to an Hairs Breadth will probably carry the day. How comes it then to pass,