Soldiers counselled and comforted. A discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged…Souldiers counselled and comforted. A discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged…

Gentlemen! It is the War of the Lord which you are now Engaged in: and it is the Help of the Lord, that we are at Home affectionately imploring for you. We have made a fair and just purchase of our Country from the Natives here; not encroaching on them after the Spanish Fashion, in any of their Properties and Possessions. Yet they are now molesting of us in the Enjoyment of what our God (because our Right) hath made our own; which my Pen cannot mention without Jehoshaphats Ejaculation, We destroyed them not, but behold how ⟨image ?⟩they Reward us, to come to cast us out of thy Possession, which thou hast given us to inherit. O our God, Wilt thou not Judge them? I believe, I am persuaded, and Confident, He will. But your Wisdom and Courage is now to be Employed in order thereunto; and we all wish you such large measures of Both, as the matter does require. You are some of you, such as in the former War, ventured as far as any men Alive; and the God of Armies then blessed you, not only with safety, but with a success also, which we should be very unworthy if we should be unthankful for. As you have thereby learned what a Treacherous, Barbarous, Dangerous Enemy you have to deal withal; so you are not without a gracious Invitation to Trust in God for your future preservation; You may animate your selves with such an Hope as that, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the Lion, and out of the paw of the Bear, He will also deliver me out of the Hands of the Philistine, Your former Deliverances whereof the Honourable Wounds upon some of you are perpetual Monitors and Memorials, are a Dish of Leviathans Heads well draft, for your Faith to feed upon. Feed and Fight now with a strong Faith; By That you may wax Valiant in fight, and turn to flight the Armies of the Aliens.

Gentlemen! It is the War of the Lord which you are now Engaged in: and it is the Help of the Lord, that we are at Home affectionately imploring for you. We have made a fair and just purchase of our Country from the Natives here; not encroaching on them after the Spanish Fashion, in any of their Properties and Possessions. Yet they are now molesting of us in the Enjoyment of what our God (because our Right) hath made our own; which my Pen cannot mention without Jehoshaphats Ejaculation, We destroy'd them not, but behold how ⟨image ?⟩they Reward us, to come to cast us out of thy Possession, which thou hast given us to inherit. O our God, Wilt thou not Judge them? I believe, I am perswaded, and Confident, He will. But your Wisdom and Courage is now to be Employ'd in order thereunto; and we all wish you such large measures of Both, as the matter does require. You are some of you, such as in the former War, ventured as far as any men Alive; and the God of Armies then blessed you, not only with safety, but with a success also, which we should be very unworthy if we should be unthankful for. As you have thereby learn'd what a Treacherous, Barbarous, Dangerous Enemy you have to deal withal; so you are not without a gracious Invitation to Trust in God for your future preservation; You may animate your selves with such an Hope as that, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the Lion, and out of the paw of the Bear, He will also deliver me out of the Hands of the Philistine, Your former Deliverances whereof the Honourable Wounds upon some of you are perpetual Monitors and Memorials, are a Dish of Leviathans Heads well draft, for your Faith to feed upon. Feed and Fight now with a strong Faith; By That you may wax Valiant in fight, and turn to flight the Armies of the Aliens.