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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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Most of all is this to be done, when blessings are withdrawn and taken away: especially if they be spiritual blessings. The sensible presence, powerful assistance, and sweet comfort of the Spirit, being withdrawn from David, upon the great sins which he committed in the case of Bathsheba and her husband, he penned the one and fiftieth Psalm, which manifesteth an extraordinary wrestling with the Lord, to have those blessings restored to him again. His wrestling in this case was like Jacobs, who would not let the Lord go unless he blessed him,1 Gen. 32. 26.2
Most of all is this to be done, when blessings are withdrawn and taken away: especially if they be spirituall blessings. The sensible presence, powerfull assistance, and sweet comfort of the Spirit, being withdrawn from David, upon the great sins which he committed in the case of Bathsheba and her husband, he penned the one and fiftieth Psalme, which manifesteth an extraordinary wrestling with the Lord, to have those blessings restored to him again. His wrestling in this case was like Jacobs, who would not let the Lord go unlesse he blessed him,1 Gen. 32. 26.2
- 12. Preventing or removing evils.
- 2Hoc est totum quod dicitur malum, i.e. peccatum, & poe•a peccati Aug. de ver relig. c. 11
Evils against which extraordinary prayer is to be made, are sins or judgements.