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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 2 › SECONDLY.
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.
If you Thrive under your heavenly Teacher you are to pay unto Him such Acknowledgements as these.
Your humble, your hearty Praises are first to be rendered unto the Most High for all your military Endowments. Among the Ancients, when an old Soldier came to have an honest honourable Dismission from the Camp, he dedicated his Arms with his Praises unto his Household Gods. Truly there are Praises to be returned unto our God, when we are made Masters in military Practice. O do as the Psalmist in the close of his military Psalm, (in 2. Sam. 22.50.) resolves to do. I will give Thanks to thee, O Lord, I will give Praises to thy […].
Your humble, your hearty Praises are first to be rendred unto the Most High for all your military Endowments. Among the Ancients, when an old Souldier came to have an honest honourable Dismission from the Camp, he dedicated his Arms with his Praises unto his Houshold Gods. Truly there are Praises to be returned unto our God, when we are made Masters in military Practice. O do as the Psalmist in the close of his military Psalm, (in 2. Sam. 22.50.) resolves to do. I will give Thanks to thee, O Lord, I will give Praises to thy 〈…〉.
Again, You should now Submit unto any ⟨p. 32⟩the hardest military Employment that the Most High God shall call you to. Stand l•ke the Israelites in the Desert of old, p••ching every man by his Standard about the nacle of the Lord; and when you have the full Warrant of GOD and His Vice-gerents, don't shrug or shrink back for any Difficulty that you may be put upon. Let me speak unto you in the words which the Lord-General of Israel in his military Oration used, (