When the people, and the rulers among them, willingly offer themselves to a military expedition against their unrighteous enemies, and are successful therein, the Lord is to be praised, and they to be loved and honoured therefor : a sermon preached at Charlestown, on a general thanksgiving, July 18. 1745 : for the reduction of Cape-Breton, by an army of New-England volunteers, under the command of the Honourable William Pepperrell, esq ... : with the assistance of a British squadron, commanded by Peter Warren, esq. : and now published at the desire of a number of the hearers