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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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One that God would be pleased to pardon it. It was an earnest prayer in this case that he poured out, who thus prayed, For thy names sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity: for it is great, Psal. 25. 11. And again thus, According to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, Psal. 51. 1.
One that God would be pleased to pardon it. It was an earnest praier in this case that he poured out, who thus praied, For thy names sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquitie: for it is great, Psal. 25. 11. And again thus, According to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, Psal. 51. 1.
The other is, that God would work in us repentance, as he who thus prayed, Turn thou me, and I shall be turned: for thou art the Lord my God, Jer. 31. 18. The more dangerous the temptations unto sin, whereunto we are subject, are, and the more heinous the sins are whereinto we have fallen, the more earnest ought our prayers, in this case to be.
The other is, that God would work in us repentance, as he who thus praied, Turn thou me, and I shall be turned: for thou art the Lord my God, Jer. 31. 18. The more dangerous the temptations unto sin, whereunto we are subject, are, and the more hainous the sins are whereinto we have fallen, the more earnest ought our praiers, in this case to be.