All is possible to the Lord, as Dr.Ferguson wisely says.

We are as grains of dust in the hollow of His hand.

Yet He hath given us brains wherewith to choose the better course, and if we neglect it we must suffer the consequence of our folly.' Ferguson laughed contemptuously, and breathed out a prayer, but many of the other Puritans nodded their heads to acknowledge that this was not an unreasonable view to take of it.
'On the other hand, sire,' Saxon continued, 'it appears to me that to remain here is equally impossible.

Your Majesty's friends throughout England would lose all heart if the army lay motionless and struck no blow.

The rustics would flock off to their wives and homes.