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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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True it is, that hypocrites have thus expostulated this case with God, Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not? Wherefore have we afflicted our souls, and thou takest no knowledge? But the fault is there laid upon themselves, 1That they fasted for strife and debate, &c. Their fast was not such an one as the Lord had chosen: So as the Lords hand was not shortened, that it could not save: nor his ear heavy, that it could not hear: but their iniquities had separated between them and their God, and their sins had hid his face from them, that he would not hear, Isa. 59. 1, 2.
True it is, that hypocrites have thus expostulated this case with God, Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not? Wherefore have we afflicted our souls, and thou takest no knowledge? But the fault is there laid upon themselves, 1That they fasted for strife and debate, &c. Their fast was not such an one as the Lord had chosen: So as the Lords hand was not shortned, that it could not save: nor his ear heavy, that it could not hear: but their iniquities had separated between them and their God, and their sins had hid his face from them, that he would not hear, Isa. 59. 1, 2.
Let us therefore that do what is warrantable, do it uprightly and fervently: so may we do it in faith, and be be sure to have it accepted. All things are possible to him that believeth, Mark 9. 23. Surely we fail of much benefit that we might receive from our prayers, for want of faith.