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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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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,1 that duty is the more honourable to God, and the more powerful and prevalent with him. If God account himself honoured by one mans calling upon him, he is the more honoured by many mens joining together therein. As the gathering together of many waters makes the stronger ⟨p. 16⟩stream, and the voices of many together, the louder sound, so the joint prayers of many. This very reason is pressed in his Majesties Proclamation for a public general solemn Fast, July 3. 1625. in these words, In humble hope and confidence, that when both Prince and people together throughout the whole Land, shall join in one common and solemn Devotion, of sending up their faithful and repenting prayers, to Almighty God at one instant of time, the same shall be more available to obtain that mercy, help and comfort from him, which in the present important occasion, this Church and Common-wealth do stand in need of.