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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: USE. V.
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.
USE. V.
Let every Christian acknowledge GOD for his Teacher in the Spiritual Warfare which he is called unto.
Let every Christian acknowledge GOD for his Teacher in the Spiritual Warfare which he is calld unto.
Among those Monuments of Antiquity, the Works of those grey-headed and Reverend men whom they use to call the Fathers, we may find th•• Text glossed with a variety of Allegorical Expositions; we have it represented as the Speech both of our Lord Jesus ⟨p. 41⟩Christ on the cursed Tree, combating the Powers of Darkness in their own. Territories; and of every Christ jan also engaged in the unseen Battles of the Lord against the spiritual Wickednesses which do annoy them▪ It is not meet that a Popular Auditory should be amused w••h vain Quotations from them. But this is as certain as what is most so, That every Christian shares with his Leader the Lord Jesus Christ, in being (as Austin well phrases it) a Praellator in•erior, One that hath a spiritual Warfare to be solicitous about. The Soldiers present, have this day had all the three kinds of Calls to regard their military Duties. They have had not only, Verba muta, the military Sights of Ensigns and Weapons displayed before them; and not only Verba Semvocalia, the military Sounds that have been Knocking and Clashing in their Ears; but they have also had Verba Vocalia, the Articulate Commands of Man and of God also, to acquit themselves as good Soldiers the Lord open their ears to Discipline!