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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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Duties of piety are to be performed as in Gods presence.1
- 1Observ. 7.
We ought to do nothing, but as in Gods presence: so, as setting God before us. The word [Greek or Hebrew] hithhalec, whereby Enochs walking before God is set out, Gen. 5. 24. and which is required of Abram, Gen. 17. 1. implieth a constant, continual setting of God before their eyes. It is of the seventh hebrew conjugation, which importeth a frequent and constant performing of a thing. Learned and judicious Tremellius and Junius translate that word indesinenter ambulare, continually to walk. If we must in every place, and in every duty that we take in hand, do it before God, much more must we so perform duties of piety,1 which have a kind of immediate respect unto God, and wherein we have immediately to do with him. These are most sincerely to be done, because God beholds the very disposition of men, and their purposes while they are in their hearts.
We ought to doe nothing, but as in Gods presence: so, as setting God before us. The word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 hithhalec, whereby Enochs walking before God is set out, Gen. 5. 24. and which is required of Abram, Gen. 17. 1. implieth a constant, continuall setting of God before their eies. It is of the seventh hebrew conjugation, which importeth a frequent and constant performing of a thing. Learned and judicious Tremellius and Junius translate that word indesinenter ambulare, continually to walk. If we must in every place, and in every duty that we take in hand, do it before God, much more must we so perform duties of piety,