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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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A prosperous journey may be sought of God.1
- 1Observ. 10.
Men in their journeys are subject to many dangers. The divine Providence can keep them fare from all their dangers: Yea, he can so order it, that by mistaking of a way, they may avoid some dangerous plots of enemies against them Augustine relates a story much tending to that purpose;1 That in his journey he came to a two want way, or to a place which went two ways. In that which led most directly to his journeys end, an armed troop of the Donatists lay, to seize upon him; but he ignorantly fell into the other way, whereby he escaped that troop, and going the wrong way, though farthest about, came safely to his journeys end, and praised God for that mistake of his way. God giveth to such as seek it of him, Angels to keep them in all their ways, Psal. 91. 11. The Heathen supposed that there were certain gods who directed such as called upon them in their right way, and gave them a prosperous journey. These they called [Greek or Hebrew] But indeed it is Jehovah only that is properly the director of our ways, In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths, Prov. 3. 6. This may also be applied to the metaphorical interpretation of this phrase, A right way.
Men in their journies are subject to many dangers. The divine Providence can keep them fare from all their dangers: Yea, he can so order it, that by mistaking of a way, they may avoid some dangerous plots of enemies against them Austine relates a story much tending to that purpose;1 That in his journey he came to a two want way, or to a place which went two waies. In that which led most directly to his journies end, an armed troop of the Donatists lay, to seize upon him; but he ignorantly fell into the other way, whereby he escaped that troop, and going the wrong way, though farthest about, came safely to his journies end, and praised God for that mistake of his way. God giveth to such as seek it of him, Angels to keep them in all their waies,