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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.
We see it in Sailors and in Soldiers. As for them that follow the Sea, 'tis said of them, in Psal. 107. 22. They Reel to and fro, and Stagger like a Drunken Man; and are at their Wits Ends. ⟨p. 19⟩Thus 'tis with them in regard of Storm; and when that is over, 'tis thus again with them in regard of Sin too; even after they come a Shore, still (and upon a sadder Account) they will many of them Reel to and fro, and Stagger, not like a Drunken man; but thro' being really so. They make deeper Descents towards Hell by their Vice than in their Ship; and no Sea-sickness will turn into a Sin sickness with them. Tho they may pray in a Tempest, how horribly will they Swear and Curse, and how filthily will they Talk, when they are out of their Amazements! It has been doubled, Whether they were to be reckoned among the Living or the Dead. But the sense of this keeps few of them, from those Remarkable Extravagances; which quickly plunge them down into the Congregation of those that Roar under the Waters for evermore.
We see it in Sailors and in Souldiers. As for them that follow the Sea, 'tis said of them, in Psal. 107. 22. They Reel to and fro, and Stagger like a Drunken Man; and are at their Wits Ends. ⟨p. 19⟩Thus 'tis with them in regard of Storm; and when that is over, 'tis thus again with them in regard of Sin too; even after they come a Shore, still (and upon a sadder Account) they will many of them Reel to and fro, and Stagger, not like a Drunken man; but thro' being really so. They make deeper Descents towards Hell by their Vice than in their Ship; and no Sea-sickness will turn into a Sin sickness with them. Tho they may pray in a Tempest, how horribly will they Swear and Curse, and how filthily will they Talk, when they are out of their Amazements! It has been doubled, Whether they were to be reckoned among the Living or the Dead. But the sense of this keeps few of them, from those Remarkable Extravagancies; which quickly plunge them down into the Congregation of those that Roar under the Waters for evermore.