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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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5. From the Persons that observed the duty, set down in the plural number, under this particle WE, it may be gathered, That
5. From the Persons that observed the duty, set down in the plurall number, under this particle WE, it may be gathered, That
For obtaining common and public blessings,1 means are jointly to be used by all whom it concerns.2
For obtaining common and publike blessings,1 means are joyntly to be used by all whom it concerns.2
- 1Observ. 5.
- 2Loquebantur quasi ex uncore: idcirco orantibus fuit impetrabilis & efficax sermo. Cyp. serm. 6. de orat. Dom.
The Proclamation here made tended, to that end, namely to gather them all together for performing the duty mentioned. A little after this, when another occasion of performing a public duty was given, they were not only by Proclamation summoned together, but also a strict penalty was laid upon such as should not come, Chap. 10. 7, 8. By the assembling of many together, men mutually stir up the zeal, and inflame the affection of one another: and when many join bodies and spirits in performing one and the same duty of piety together,