A85486:205
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. Too great cause of just complaint may here be taken up,1 by reason of mens slight and careless observing ⟨p. 29⟩those means which are warranted and prescribed by Gods Word, for pacifying his wrath, and procuring his favour. The Lord may justly upbraid to us our fasts, as he did to the Israelites before mentioned, Isa. 58. 3, &c.
1. Too great cause of just complaint may here be taken up,1 by reason of mens slight and carelesse observing ⟨p. 29⟩those means which are warranted and prescribed by Gods Word, for pacifying his wrath, and procuring his favour. The Lord may justly upbraid to us our fasts, as he did to the Israelites before mentioned, Isa. 58. 3, &c.
- 1Lamentation for mens slighting fastsLamentation for mens sleighting fasts
This complaint may justly be taken up, not only against the profaner sort of people, but also against many that look Zion-ward. There be of them that on our monthly days of fast, not only forbear to join with the assembly of Gods people in those solemn sacred duties: but also follow their secular affairs: yea their pleasures and pastimes, in a kind of dislike, if not a detestation of these duties. I will not lay to their charge their disavowing of these duties, as if so be they thought fasting and prayer unlawful: but their disesteem of our monthly days enjoined by public authority.