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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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13. From the Things for which God was sought, which are here called, All their substance, it appears, That
The fourth Petition of the Lords prayer (Give us this day our daily bread, 1Mat. 6. 11.) giveth evidence to the truth hereof. Though, through mans ordinary abuse of the goods of this world, Christ stileth them, Mammon of unrighteousness, yet he adviseth us to make to our selves friends thereof, Luk. 16. 9. They are necessary for the very being of our bodies. Life, health, strength, are preserved by them. They may be a means of continuing the Ministry of Gods Word and Ordinances among us: and we by them may be many ways helped, even about the service of God.
The fourth Petition of the Lords praier (Give us this day our daily bread, 1Mat. 6. 11.) giveth evidence to the truth hereof. Though, through mans ordinary abuse of the goods of this world, Christ stileth them, Mammon of unrighteousnesse, yet he adviseth us to make to our selves friends thereof,