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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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Evils against which extraordinary prayer is to be made, are sins or judgements.
Evils against which extraordinary praier is to be made, are sins or judgements.
Against-sins, such prayers are to be made, to prevent ⟨p. 24⟩them, or redress them. For preventing sin, Christ commandeth his Disciples to watch and pray, that they enter not into temptation, Mat. 24. 41. By temptations men are drawn to sin. By being freed from the temptation or assisted and supported in the temptation, sin may be prevented, Gen. 20. 6. & 39. 7, 8, &c.
Against-sins, such praiers are to be made, to prevent ⟨p. 24⟩them, or redresse them. For preventing sinne, Christ commandeth his Disciples to watch and pray, that they enter not into temptation, Mat. 24. 41. By temptations men are drawn to sin. By being freed from the temptation or assisted and supported in the temptation, sin may be prevented, Gen. 20. 6. & 39. 7, 8, &c.