The present state of New-England. Considered in a discourse on the necessities and advantages…

All that I have hitherto asked for, is but a Small Venture; there is One more that we are to make.

Finally then, We are to venture our very LIVES for the People of God, when they can't be brought out of Distress and Danger without the venture of our Lives. 'Tis what we are summoned unto in 1 John 3• ⟨p. 15⟩[…] to lay down our Lives for the Brethren. If an Heathen Py•ades and Orestes could not think their Lives too large a price for each •thers Peace, what Life should be too much to be Sacrificed for the Peace of a People which God counts His own? The Apostle Paul tells us. For a good man one would even dare to Die and he saw it when an Aquila and Priscilla were so ready to Die for him. If a good Person be so valuable, What can then be too much for a Good People of the Lord? When Aaron, when David, beheld a Destroying Evil breaking in upon the People of God, they carr•ed their Lives to keep it off. We are to do what we can For such a People, tho it be with The Jeopardy of our L•ves. If we have a call to Ride into the very Bowels of the Earth, for the Service of the Public, we should as He of old, with all Spur and Speed be there. The Service of God and His People should make us to say, as the Martyr once, If every Hair of my Head were a Man, they should all be Sacrificed in this Glorious cause.

Finally then, We are to venture our very LIVES for the People of God, when they can't be brought out of Distress and Danger without the venture of our Lives. 'Tis what we are summoned unto in 1 Iohn 3• ⟨p. 15⟩