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The right wayThe right vvay
The right way: or A direction for obtaining good success in a weighty enterprise. Set out in a sermon preached on the 12th of September, 1648. before the Lords on a day of humiliation for a blessing on a treaty between His Majesties and the Parliaments commissioners. / By W. Gouge.The right vvay: or A direction for obtaining good successe in a weighty enterprise. Set out in a sermon preached on the 12th of September, 1648. before the Lords on a day of humiliation for a blessing on a treaty between His Majesties and the Parliaments commissioners. / By W. Gouge.
London: printed by A. Miller for Joshua Kirton, 1648London: printed by A. Miller for Ioshua Kirton, 1648
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Their meeting was to pray.1 Their fasting to do that duty more powerfully. Prayer is not for fasting, but fasting for prayer. It is here said, that they fasted to seek of God a right way: and the issue thereof is thus expressed, vers. 23. So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he was entreated of us. Most of the powerful and effectual prayers recorded in Scripture, were poured forth on a day of fast. Christ saith of a devil, that by no other means can be cast out, that it may be cast out by prayer and fasting, Mat. 17. 21.
Their meeting was to pray.1 Their fasting to do that duty more powerfully. Praier is not for fasting, but fasting for praier. It is here said, that they fasted to seek of God a right way: and the issue thereof is thus expressed, vers. 23. So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he was intreated of us. Most of the powerfull and effectuall praiers recorded in Scripture, were poured forth on a day of fast. Christ saith of a devil, that by no other means can be cast out, that it may be cast out by praier and fasting, Mat. 17. 21.
- 1Oratio non sit propter jejuniū, sed jejunium propter orationem. Chrys. hom. 15. in