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

Secondly, In Times of much Distress and Danger with the People of God, we are then especially to Venture our All on their behalf▪ We a•e at this Time to speak, yea, and Act for them, Let the Venture Look ever so big and black upon us.

Secondly, In Times of much Distr•ss and Danger with the People of God, we are then especially to V•nture our All on their behalf▪ We a•e at this Time to speak, yea, and Act for them, Let the Venture Look ever so big and black upon us.

Indeed, This is not the Spirit of •••ry man▪ Too, too many are of a private, Selfish, Narrow Spirit, and are scandalously Little in their ⟨p. 22⟩Inclinations. 'Tis pity b•t some Odious Comparison should be excogitated for them. Will they Venture All? No, they study for nothing but to Save One: And if God have Raised up some Extraordinary Person, to Venture His All, for the Deliverance of His Afflicted Country, perhaps all the Thanks that they give him is, Who bid him do it? Will they Venture All? No, They Refuse All, or at least they Begrudge All, that should go from them, for the public Weal. They Complain of All, and Murmur at All, tho' it be a wretched Little, which they are Compelled unto, for the common Safety. Will they Venture All? No, They use all their Wits and all their Thoughts to Contrive, how to Do nothing at all; and tho' they can spend many Pounds in a year upon • pernicious Lust, yet a Sum not capable of so High a Denomination exacted by a Reasonable Tax, is with them an Oppression which (because they are far from Wise) does make them Mad. What would they be at? They would not care tho' the Houses of their Neighbours were Burnt, if their own Apples might be Roasted at the Flame. What would they have? They subordinate their All, to this mighty Thing, that they may sleep like the Toad, (I have now found a comparison for them!) with Claws full of the Dust which