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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50142	Military duties recommended to an artillery company; at their election of officers, in Charls-town, 13. d. 7. m. 1686. By Cotton Mather, pastor of a church in Boston.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1687 (1687)	Wing M1128; ESTC W479523	35,129	92

Ierusalem in the dayes of Iehoshaphat It is noted for so I would understand it in 2. Chron. 17. fin That while one man was Leader of that Company they were an Hundred and Eighty Thousand While another they were Two hundred Thousand while another they were two hundred and eighty Thousand and while another they were no less than Three hundred thousand There were Thousands exceeding the Unites in our Artillery Companies Should I now pretend to give Directions how Military Discipline may best be ordered among us I might justly be derided no less than he that would read Military Lectures before the Martial Hannibal Yet there are Two things which I would presume upon 〈◊〉 Liberty to say ADVICE I. It seems good Prudence to be most Attent o●… and Accurate in that peice of Military Discipline which is most Necessary Or most accommodated for the SAFETY of the place which we belong unto We have such a Parenthesis in the Preface of David's Elegy over Saul and Ionathan 2. Sam. I. 18. He had them teach the Children of Iudah the Bow. Some take that Word the Bow to be only the Title of the ensueing Song But others thus conceive of it The PhiliPhilistines had made fearful Slaughter among the Israelites by their being curious Archers and the study of David now was to have the Israelites out-shoot the Philistines in their own Bow. All that you shall now hear of this matter from one whose highest military Attainment is that he counts Military Discipline a thing not to be despised is only This There is a swarthy Generation of Philistines here the Indian Natives I mean whom alone we are like to have any Warrs withal These Salvages have not long since butchered several Hundreds in these Plantations in that bloudy gloomy-day when the Alarm of Warr was heard and it was said Sword go through the Land the Canibals had many an Hellish Feast of English Flesh and the main thing wherein the wild Creatures out-did us and ●…n-did us was this They were very yare Marks-men and every tree was a Fort from whence they took their Aims If ever those now wounded Chaldeans should make an Attempt again upon us there will be few Words of Command used unless those two Make ready and Give fire The best Marks-man will then be the best Souldier The Benjamites that can shoot to an Hairs Breadth will probably carry the day How comes it then to pass that in our Trainings there seldome are any of Marks and Prizes set up for the promoting this Accomplishment ADVICE II. They that give their presence to Military Discipline should be ashamed if their Proficiency therein be not conspicuous and considerable The Counsil which Paul gave to a Spiritual Souldier is very Proper here in 1. Tim. 4. 15. Give thy self to these things that thy profi●…ng may appear unto all Do not look upon Training dayes as designed for meer Diversion and Recreation or to do nothing but make Smokes Be not of them who unless to get off a Fine would never appear at their Colours Remember that As you were is not a fit word of Command for you all the year long Behave your selves alwaies in your Trainings as under the Eye of the Authority whom under His Majesties favourable Protection you are therein Obedient unto yea and as if you were by them also bid to expect the sight of an Adversary At the End of each day be able to make a good Reply unto that Question Quid profeci or What progress have I made this day in military Discipline Give not your Tutors cause to blame your Non-proficiencies USE II. The Attenders on Military Discipline should hence be careful to Acknowledge God in what they do Let them act according to that Acknowledgement The Lord is my teacher To particularize FIRSTLY There are some Acknowledgements due to God from you WHILE you are using of Military Discipline All the Trained Souldiers among you have these things incumbent on them as so many Ackowledgments unto GOD their Teacher In the first place Souldiers should be Gracious men O get on the Whole Armour of God Get gracious Principles into your Souls Never dream That you are in all respects fit to war and to fight with any men till your peace be made with God. You that may some time or other carry your Liv●… in your Hands had need alwaies to carry Grace in your Heárts A very Heathen handling that Problem Who is the best Armed Souldier Solved it so Integer vitae scelerisque purus the sincere godly man is the best Armed of any man in the world You be n't so fit as you should be to handle a Sword till you come to use a Book as well as a Sword till you govern your lives by the Words of Command in the Book of God till you can say with that renowned Souldier in Psal. 119. 14. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies as much as in all riches You are poor Souldiers till you can with all Hilarity say to your own souls as that dying Ancient Hilary did Egredere Anima egredere quid times or Turn out O my Soul turn out Scorn Scorn to be afraid of Death which no uncoverted man can duly say After all the Bravadoes which many Hectoring Dam-mee's make while no body is like to hurt them it is the New-born heaven-born Christian that will stand the most daringly before the mouthes of Cannons vomiting out Fire Death Here here is the man that is best able to look the most ●…errible of all terribles in the f●…ce to scoff at the hisses of that Rattle-snake DEATH saying Where 's thy sting I have heard that not a very long ago In the Low-Countryes an huffing Captain challenged one reputed a very pious man unto the Fighting of a Duel the General taking notice of it said Pray stay till to morrow such a Town is then to be assaulted I 'll then see which of you two can fight best The Town was assaulted and a Breath made in the Wall Now said the General to the Challenger Now do you Enter To this the couragious Coward reply'd with horrot I beseech your Excellency excuse me I be n't fit to dy But the man whom the Changes of Regeneration have made fit to live he is likewise fit to dy He that hath Christ for his Life will assuredly have Gain by his Death and may fall into Transports of Ioy whenever the grim Ferry-man shall call upon him Come away Moreover Souldiers should be Praying men The illustrious G●…stavus Adolphus was for a Souldier the miracle of this last Age but scarce any thing more contributed to his being so than the Army of Prayers which were ever in his Service Hence he would say to his Counsellors The greater our Army of Prayers the more assured will be our victory It is given as the Character of a man worthy to be a Captain in Act. 10. 2. He was a devout man and one that pray'd