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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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Execution of judgement may be considered either in the beginning, or in the full accomplishment of it. A judgement was begun when the Philistines were gathered together to Mizpeh: but Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the Lord destroyed them before Israel, 1 Sam. 7. 7, 10. On Manasseh the judgement was executed to the full, in that he was taken by his enemy, bound with fetters, and carried to Babylon: but when he was in affliction he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly, and so was freed from that judgement: For he was brought again into his kingdom, 2 Chron. 33. 12, 13. As extraordinary prayer, in these and other like cases, is to be made on our own behalf, so also on the behalf of others. Moses his mighty prayers (by one of which God was moved to say, Let me alone: and in another Moses himself was moved thus to say, If thou wilt not forgive their sin, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book, &c.) were made in the behalf of others, Exod. 32. 10, 32.
Execution of judgement may be considered either in the beginning, or in the full accomplishment of it. A judgement was begun when the Philistims were gathered together to Mizpeh: but Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the Lord destroied them before Israel, 1 Sam. 7. 7, 10. On Manasseh the judgement was executed to the full, in that he was taken by his enemy, bound with fetters, and carried to Babylon: but when he was in affliction he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly, and so was freed from that judgement: For he was brought again into his kingdome, 2 Chron. 33. 12, 13. As extraordinary praier, in these and other like cases, is to be made on our own behalf, so also on the behalf of others. Moses his mighty praiers (by one of which God was moved to say, Let me alone: and in another Moses himself was moved thus to say, If thou wilt not forgive their sin, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book, &c.) were made in the behalf of others, Exod. 32. 10, 32