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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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1. That humiliation, supplication and afflicting of himself, was a service warranted by Gods Word, and acceptable unto God.
2. Though God restored not to the child his natural life: yet he bestowed upon it eternal life: which may be inferred out of these words which David used to comfort himself, I shall go to him, 2 Samuel 12. 23.
2. Though God restored not to the childe his naturall life: yet he bestowed upon it eternall life: which may be inferred out of these words which David used to comfort himself, I shall goe to him, 2 Samuel 12. 23.
3. God gave him another son, and that of the same mother, a Solomon, a Jedediah (2 Sam. 12. 24, 25.) A Prince of peace, beloved of the Lord, who, by Gods appointment succeeded David on the Throne. It is observable how the Lord had respect to Ahab's humbling himself before God: for thereby he was moved to put off the judgement denounced, all his days, 1 King. 21. 29.
3. God gave him another son, and that of the same mother, a Salomon, a Jedediah (2 Sam. 12. 24, 25.) A Prince of peace, beloved of the Lord, who, by Gods appointment succeeded David on the Throne. It is observable how the Lord had respect to Ahabs humbling himself before God: for thereby he was moved to put off the judgement denounced, all his daies,