Peabody, Oliver:

$2,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

AN ESSAY TO REVIVE AND ENCOURAGE MILITARY EXERCISES, SKILL AND VALOUR AMONG THE SONS OF GOD'S PEOPLE IN NEW-ENGLAND. A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY-COMPANY IN BOSTON, JUNE 5th. ... A relatively scarce early sermon proclaiming the righteousness of military preparedness and the compatibility between God and guns. "Neither is the profession of religion in the least inconsistent with a military spirit, and the art of war: The most holy and wise of all men have practiced war, and have been famous for their valour and achievements therein, as Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David and others." The name of New England hero Capt. John Lovewell, who fell in battle with the Indians at Piggwackett in 1725, is invoked. Peabody was pastor of the church in Natick.

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