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Updated: May 11, 2025
'It is true, good Master Pettigrue, that we owe much praise and much outpouring, and much sweet and holy contending, for this blessing which hath come upon Israel, said he, 'but the time hath not yet arrived. There is an hour for prayer and an hour for labour. Hark ye, friend' to one of the prisoners 'to what regiment do you belong?
'Lo, most pious Master Pettigrue, said Saxon, 'I have myself at times ventured to lift up my voice before the Lord. Without any further apology he broke out in stentorian tones into the following hymn, the refrain of which was caught up by pastor and congregation. The Lord He is a morion That guards me from all wound; The Lord He is a coat of mail That circles me all round.
'Joshua Pettigrue is my name, gentlemen, said he; 'I am an unworthy worker in the Lord's vineyard, testifying with voice and with arm to His holy covenant. These are my faithful flock, whom I am bringing westward that they may be ready for the reaping when it pleases the Almighty to gather them in. 'And why have you not brought them into some show of order or formation? asked Saxon.
If ye have the people on your side, why should ye crave for these bewigged fine gentlemen, whose white hands and delicate rapiers are of as much service as so many ladies' bodkins? 'Faith! said I, 'if all the fops are as careless for their lives as our friend Sir Gervas, I could wish no better comrades in the field. 'In good sooth, yes! cried Master Pettigrue heartily.
'I am not prone to be fearful upon small occasion, he remarked, 'but hampered as we are with wounded men and prisoners, it might have puzzled Petrinus himself to know what we should have done had the cavalry overtaken us. I can now, Master Pettigrue, smoke my pipe in peace, without pricking up my ears at every chance rumble of a wheel or shout of a village roisterer.
'Truly, sir, it is a wise resolution, said Saxon grimly, 'for if a troop of horse came down upon these good people the pastor would find himself without his flock. 'Nay, that could never be! cried Master Pettigrue with fervour. 'Say rather that pastor, flock, and all would find their way along the thorny track of martyrdom to the new Jerusalem.
Suddenly, in the stillness, a strong fervent voice was heard calling upon the source of all life to guard and preserve that which He had created. It was Joshua Pettigrue, who had flung himself upon his knees, and who, while asking for future guidance, was returning thanks for the safe deliverance which his flock had experienced from the many perils which had beset them upon their journey.
'They are men of fine raiment, with war-horses and chariots and trappings, like the Assyrians of old, yet shall the angel of the Lord breathe upon them in the night. Yea, He shall cut them off utterly in His wrath, and they shall be destroyed. 'Amen! Amen! cried as many of the peasants as were within earshot. 'They have elevated their horn, Master Pettigrue, said the grizzly-haired Puritan.
Increase is readily obtained either from root suckers or by layering. RUSCUS ACULEATUS. Butcher's Broom, Pettigree and Pettigrue. This is a native evergreen shrub, with rigid cladodes which take the place of leaves, and not very showy greenish flowers appearing about May.
I trust they will be firmer in the field than I am in the saddle. 'The third company of scythesmen I commit to your charge, Captain Micah Clarke, continued Saxon. 'Good Master Joshua Pettigrue will be our field-chaplain. Shall not his voice and his presence be to us as manna in the wilderness, and as springs of water in dry places?
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