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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…
Soldiers counselled and comforted. A discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged in the just war of New-England against the northern & eastern Indians. Sept. 1. 1689. / By Cotton Mather Minister of the Gospel in Boston, ; [One line epigram in Latin]Souldiers counselled and comforted. A discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged in the just war of New-England against the northern & eastern Indians. Sept. 1. 1689. / By Cotton Mather Minister of the Gospel in Boston, ; [One line epigram in Latin]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1689
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.
The Second Condition of this kind, is, that of Old Men. And so our Observation is,
2. Men have their Lives brought into their Hands in point of Infirmity. Aged persons Lean with their Hands; and on their Staves they carry ⟨p. 8⟩their Lives. The Life may be put for the whole Man; with the Old Man 'tis come into the Hands; his Feet cannot now support him. 'Tis said of him in Eccles 12. 3. The strong men, (i. e. his Legs) bow themselves; and so the Trembling Hands must be the Keepers of the House. All the strength left him, and all his Life is in his Hands. He does all things with a Staff in Hand, and so with a Life in Hand; as 'tis noted of the Grey-headed and Decrepit Jacob, in Heb. 11. 21. He Worshipped, leaning on the Top of his Staff: When he rose off his Couch to worship God, he could not rise without a Staff; his Life was relieved and exerted mostly by his Aged palsy Hand.
2. Men have their Lives brought into their Hands in point of Infirmity. Aged persons Lean with their Hands; and on their Staves they carry ⟨p. 8⟩their Lives. The Life may be put for the whole Man; with the Old Man 'tis come into the Hands; his Feet cannot now support him. 'Tis said of him in Eccles 12. 3. The strong men, (i. e. his Legs) bow themselves; and so the Trembling Hands must be the Keepers of the House. All the strength left him, and all his Life is in his Hands. He does all things with a Staff in Hand, and so with a Life in Hand; as 'tis noted of the Gray-headed and Decrepit Jacob, in Heb. 11. 21. He Worshipped, leaning on the Top of his Staff: When he rose off his Couch to worship God, he could not rise without a Staff; his Life was relieved and exerted mostly by his Aged palsey Hand.