Section 1

SECT. I.

Never was there in this world a people more obliged or encouraged to the service of the great God, than we the New-English Israel are. The God of Heaven is our God, and it becomes us to fear Him; our Fathers' God, and how much ought we to worship Him? To serve God was the very errand which we were brought into this wilderness upon; and has hitherto been both our glory and our defense. That we now grow so dull and cold in this, we may write an Ichabod upon all our enjoyments, and therein see our chariots and our horsemen gone. To revive the decayed service of God among us, would be to reduce us into that favor and friendship of him who was the hope of our Fathers, which would make us happy enough to refute all the lies of our enemies. Thus would God the Lord speak peace to us. Thus would salvation be nigh to us, and glory dwell in our land.