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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Dedication: TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HOUSE OF PEERS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The End of this Treaty, is to close up and heal the breaches of this Land.
A pious End!
So great is the Breach, as it giveth great and just cause of deep Humiliation, I may in this case apply ⟨image 3⟩the Prophets lamentation for Jerusalem (Lament. 2. 13.) unto England. What thing shall I take to witness for thee? What thing shall I liken to thee, O England? For thy Breach is great, like the Sea.
So great is the Breach, as it giveth great and just cause of deep Humiliation, I may in this case apply ⟨image 3⟩the Prophets lamentation for Jerusalem (Lament. 2. 13.) unto England. What thing shall I take to witnesse for thee? What thing shall I liken to thee, O England? For thy Breach is great, like the Sea.