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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.
Conclusion I.
Their Memories being Freighted and Stored with Divine Truths, do marvellously assist those that have their Lives in their Hands.
Their Memories being Fraighted aud Stored with Divine Truths, do marvellously assist those that have their Lives in their Hands.
Our Souls have an admirable Faculty of laying up in themselves the Images of Things which have made their Impressions on us. This is our Memory. We have both a Retaining Memory, which is more Sensitive and a Regaining Memory, which is more Rational: a Memory, that can both keep Safe and fetch Back what Ideas we have been Entertained with. This Memory is a Treasury, to be replenished with such Things as the Law of God affords unto us. 'Tis Required in Prov. 3. 1. My Son forget not my Law. 'Tis Resolved in Psal. 119. 16. I will not Forget thy Word. The Law of God contains Commandments ⟨p. 13⟩every one of which are Holy, and Just, and Good; it contains Promises, every one of which are Great and Precious; it contains Threatenings, every one of which are Quick and Powerful and these are all to be Treasured up in our […]. When they have been communicated unto us, we are to take heed that, Manasseh, or Forgetfulness be not the Name of our Souls. The Distillations of Gods Law, like Manna, fall about our Tents from Day to Day: our Duty now is that in 2 Pet. 1. 15. To have these Things always in Remembrance; and Gods Law will not like Manna, corrupt, but rather sweeten, by being Reposited until To morrow. The Law of our God is both Written and Preached among us: now 'tis declared in