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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

Roll Nothing has done so much wrong to GOD or to me or to all Heaven and Earth a●… Thou Speak and think the worst of it Moreover Did they offer unto our Lord Jesus Christ all the Indignityes that possibly they could devise Binding of Him Spitting on Him Jeering at Him preferring a barbarous High-way man before Him and at last hanging Him up naked between the worst of Malefactors In like manner do you cast heaps of Shame upon your Lust Upbraid it as the Quintessence of Madness as the Exaltation of ●…lly as a most Loathesome Object worthy to be Buffetted by all Hands to be abhorred by God and man for ever and a Swine in no wise sit to lodg'd in the Parlour of you●… Souls Once more Did they with-draw all Refreshment from our Lord Jesus Christ in His ruefu●… Agonies and count a Cup of Gall good enough for Him Just so Do you withhold from your Lust that Sustenance which may enable it to hold out in its Insurrections Be sure to make no provision for this Flesh to feed upon Starve it out and so Tame it Keep it under and keep it bare of those things which you see to be the Support or Fuel of it To say no more Did they Torture our Lord Jesus Christ until by the Dolonrs of His Wounds they hunted that Hind of the morning his precious Soul out of His Body Agreeably to this Do you make your Lust undergo the Pains of an evil and a bitter thing Let it Cost you those Prayers and those Tears and manifold Austerities which may meerly ●…tire it out and Discourage it from haunting of you By these means cripple that Delictum dilectum which is your most Darling Iniquity And while you are thus in the Field derive all the Virtue which may be from abundant Thoughts on the Death of Jesus Christ. DeDevout Nazianzen said that when his Lusts gave too busie molestations to him he would by reading the Book of Lamentations quickly quell curb those troublesome Guests How much more mortifying a Spectacle would the Man who is God's Fellow hanging on a Tree be unto us Let your Thoughts often carry you to Mount Calvary and for your War-fare you will soon be among the Worthyes of David RULE IV. Cry mightily to GOD in CHRIST that by Strength from Him you may be made Conquerers and more than Conquerers over the Enemies of your souls When the Apostle had Arm'd his Christian Souldier from head to foot he then concluded Pray alwayes and watch thereunto a military Order take not a wink of sleep with all Perseverance O cry mightily to God for the Weapons of your War-fare are mighty thro' God alone The best posture for you wherein to War and to Fight against your Soul-Enemies is that wherein a wounded thought-dead Souldier once gave a mortal stab unto a proud Conquerer that was pleasing himself with a View of them whom he had slain upon your Knees In the midst of your Encounters use to do as the Emperour Theodosius did in the Extremities of a furious dubious Battel betake your selves to importunate Prayers for Succour from above be praying Iacobs and you shall be prevailing Israels If any Temptation be more than or dinarily violent in besieging of you do like those Warriors in 1. Chron. 5. 20. Cry to God in the Battel and therewithall put your trust in Him do as Paul saith he did in such a case in 2. Cor. 12. 8. I besought the Lord thrice perhaps he kept three dayes of Prayer And O let the Spirit of Prayer cause you to fill your lives with frequent and servent Prayers unto God that He would gird you with Strength unto all your Battels and subdue under you those that rise up against you I would conclude my Sermon as the Mertyr us●…d his Letters O pray pray pray You cannot contrive a more effectual preservative from the Hurts of Temptation than Prayer daily wrestling Restless Prayer The infamous Day of Origen's foul Apostasy was a day whereon he had been remiss in his morning Prayers I will not tell you Nazianzen's Story of what a Devil was forc'd to own unto Cyprian about his inability to work upon a praying Soul in his dayes But this I am sure of The Trumpets of Gideon did not more fright the Midianites than the Prayers of the Faithful do all the Devils in the dark Regions The Devil roars about the Prayers of the Beleever as the Scotch Queen did about Knox's Prayers I am more affraid of those Prayers than of the biggest Armyes Accustom your selves to Every Sort of Prayer and so keep your Hands lifted up like Moses in the Mount until the Lord Deliver you from your strong Enemy and from your Haters which are to strong for you Often set apart Whole dayes for your thus rallying your disordered Forces against them and every day let your private and Secret Groans be sent up to your Eternal Helper on this Errand Yea let scarce one waking hour in the day pass you without Shooting over the Camp of them that are strictly beleaguring of you Requests ty'd to the Arrows of ejaculatory Prayer that God would not be farr from you Happy is the man that has his quiver full of these arrowes O Pray and plead as he in 2. Chron. 20. 12. Lord I know not what to do but my eyes are up unto thee And while you thus pray without ceasing Exercise a true Faith on the Bloud of Jesus Christ as the meritorious Cause of all your Successes which Bloud will more dismay and and confound all the Behemoths of Hell. than the Sight of Bloud could the Elephants in the Macc●…bees of old And exercise a strong Faith on the Grace of Jesus Christ as both enableing and enclining of Him to succour them that are Tempted as He once was Himself which Grace is engaged to be sufficient for you Thus Pray and Warr and Fight until you come to shout as dying disconsolate Mr. Welch did when the Word Victory came from the mouth of the person that pray'd with him and he catch'd hold on it with over-powering never-ending Joy Crying Victory Victory Victory now forevermore Yea leave not off till you come to say with Paul. I have fought the good Fight there is now laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness Amen And now Do thou grant unto us O Lord our God That we being delivered out of the hands of our Enemies might serve thee in Holiness and Righteousness all the dayes of our Lives Militat omnis homo qui dat sua nomina Christo Quique Deo fidit Militat omnis homo Books printed for and sold by Ioseph Brunning at his Shop at the Corner of Prison Lane next the Exchange A Discourse Concerning Com●…s wherein the Nature of Blazing Stars is enquired into by Mr. Increase Mather An Essay for the Recording Illustrious Providences The Mystery of Christ opened applyed The greatest sinners exhorted encouraged to come to Christ and that NOW without delaying Also the exceeding Danger of men's Deferring their Repentance Together with a Discourse about the Day of Iudgment And on several other Subjects The Doctrine of Divine Providence opened and applied To which is annexed A Sermon wherein is shewed That it is the Duty and should be the Care of Believers on Christ to live in the constant Exercise of Grace by Mr. Nathaneel Mather Minister of the Gospel at Dublin in Ireland A Practical Discourse Concerning the choice Benefit of Communion with GOD in His HOUSE witnessed unto by the Experience of Saints as the 〈◊〉 Improvement of Time. By Mr. Ioshua ●…y Minister of the Gospel Self-Employment in Secret containing Evidences upon Self-Examination Thoughts upon Painful Afflictions Memorials for Practice by Mr. Iohn Corb●… An Arrow against Profane and Promiscuou●… D●…ncing Drawn out of the Q●…iver o●… 〈◊〉 SCRIPTURES by the Ministers of Boston ERRATA PAge 15. line 2. read English-man's p. 30. l. 12. r. Knighthood p. 64. l. 12. r. which are Smitten with them p. 70. l. 8. r. the worst Enemy ibid. l. 12. r. a srojan horse