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Things to be looked for. Discourses on the glorious characters, with conjectures on the…Things to be look'd for. Discourses on the glorious characters, with conjectures on the…
Things to be looked for. Discourses on the glorious characters, with conjectures on the speedy approaches of that state, which is reserved for the church of God in the latter days. : Together with an inculcation of several duties, which the undoubted characters and approaches of that state, invite us unto: delivered unto the artillery company of the Massachusetts colony: New England; at their election of officers, for the year 1691. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines from Luke]Things to be look'd for. Discourses on the glorious characters, with conjectures on the speedy approaches of that state, which is reserved for the church of God in the latter dayes. : Together with an inculcation of several duties, which the undoubted characters and approaches of that state, invite us unto: delivered unto the artillery company of the Massachusets colony: New England; at their election of officers, for the year 1691. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines from Luke]
printed by Samuel Green for Nicholas Buttolph, 1691
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Good NEWS in Bad TIMES. › Application. › Consideration 3: The Third Consideration.
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They that Learn War, had need Learn something else, and they that handle Swords & Spears ought at the same time to be furnished with ⟨p. 77⟩Qualifications that shall be truly Extraordinary. ••e assure you, such Edged Tools require more than a little Wisdom in those that wear th• […] It is a place in the Field, that gives a pet••• claim to such a style as that of, His Excellency• and a Soldier truly should many ways have something of Excellency in him. He that would he a Commander, should indeed have some Insight into all the Liberal Arts; especially, those of the Mathematics; and he must be Master of such a Carriage herewithall, as to Charm at once the Love and Fear of those that shall be under him. But there are further Virtues, from which not so much as a Private Sentinel should count himself Excusable.
They that Learn War, had need Learn something else, and they that handle Swords & Spears ought at the same time to be furnished with ⟨p. 77⟩Qualifications that shall be truly Extraordinary. ••e assure you, such Edg'd Tools require more than a little Wisdom in those that wear th• 〈…〉 It is a place in the Field, that gives a pet••• claim to such a style as that of, His Excellency• and a Souldier truly should many wayes have something of Excellency in him. He that would he a Commander, should indeed have some Insight into all the Liberal Arts; especially, those of the Mathematicks; and he must be Master of such a Carriage herewithall, as to Charm at once the Love and Fear of those that shall be under him. But there are further Vertues, from which not so much as a Private Statinel should count himself Excusable.