Consider 3.
How Much is ventured by how Many, A∣gainst the People of God? This was That which the Psalmist was not a little quickned
The present state of New-England considered in a discourse on the necessities and advantages of a public spirit in every man ... : made at the lecture in Boston, 20 d. 1 m. 1690, upon the news of an invasion by bloody Indians and French-men begun upon us / by Cotton Mather.
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- The present state of New-England considered in a discourse on the necessities and advantages of a public spirit in every man ... : made at the lecture in Boston, 20 d. 1 m. 1690, upon the news of an invasion by bloody Indians and French-men begun upon us / by Cotton Mather.
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- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
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with; in Psal. 119.139. My zeal hath consu∣med me, because my Enemies have forgotten thy words. Look upon our Enemies; they endure all sorts of Travel and Hardship; they ven∣ture their All, that they may do a misehief to us; and shall we venture Nothing on the other side? If an Haman can disburse, above eigh∣teen hundred thousand pounds, if I miscount it not, that he might bring an horrid Rout up∣on the People of God; and shall an Esther now, altogether hold her peace? Or shall we hug our Dust so fast as to let go none of it for the Deliverance of this people? There are Tumultuous and Obstreperous persons (such Ha∣man signifies in English) who stick at no∣thing for the mischief of this people; & shall we stick at any thing for their Service? Men will Expose themselves to Beggary, to Discre∣dit, to untimely Death, and to Eternal Dam∣nation, that they may compass their Mischie∣vous Devices; very shameful will be our Crime, if we out-do them not in Studies for the Good of our Israel.
I have no more now to do, but only to make you these five proposals.