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A discourse concerning the grace of courage, wherein the nature, beneficialness, and necessity of…
A discourse concerning the grace of courage, wherein the nature, beneficialness, and necessity of that virtue for all Christians, is described. Delivered in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England. June 5th. 1710. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from I Corinthians]A discourse concerning the grace of courage, wherein the nature, beneficialness, and necessity of that vertue for all Christians, is described. Delivered in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England. June 5th. 1710. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from I Corinthians]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1710
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4. If the Lord shall Call any of you to engage in a War against his Enemies, in case you act therein from a right principle and for a right End, your work shall be rewarded. It was said to David, that the Lord would certainly make him a sure house, that is Establish the Kingdom in his Family,because he fought the battles of the Lord, 1 Sam. 25. 28. If the Lord will punish men for neglecting to go to War against his Enemies when he calls them to it▪ so has He threatened: Jer. 48. 10. Cursed is […] doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully. Warring against the Moabites, is called the Work of the Lord. And Cursed is be that keeps back his Sword from blood; then He will reward those that venture their Lives in his cause.
4. If the Lord shall Call any of you to ingage in a War against his Enemies, in case you act therein from a right principle and for a right End, your work shall be rewarded. It was said to David, that the Lord would certainly make him a sure house, that is Establish the Kingdom in his Family,because he fought the battels of the Lord, 1 Sam. 25. 28. If the Lord will punish men for neglecting to go to War against his Enemies when he calls them to it▪ so has He threatned: Jer. 48. 10. Cursed is 〈…〉 doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully. Warring against the Moabites, is called the Work of the Lord. And Cursed is be that keeps back his Sword from blood; then He will reward those that venture their Lives in his cause.
Let us be sure that the War which we engage in is the War of the Lord, that which He approves of and calls us unto, and then if we have a sincere respect to his Glory, in case we should loose our Lives in the battle, that will make us Martyrs: And we may then Expect the Crown of Martyrdom among those who for the sake of