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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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I grant that if there were not a continued occasion of this constant course, there might be some ground of scruple: but that particular ground of enjoining this monthly fast, still remaining, and other weighty grounds also more nearly concerning us, namely, the troubles of our own Kingdom, why should we not persevere in using the means for averting Gods wrath, and the fearful effects thereof from us? That which is recorded of the Jews annual fasting, in certain set months, seventy years together (because the judgements, which moved them first to take up those fasts, continued so long) may be a warrant for our continued monthly fasts. For they are so mentioned by the Prophet (Zech. 7.1 5. & 8. 19.) as they are rather ratified then disavowed.
I grant that if there were not a continued occasion of this constant course, there might be some ground of scruple: but that particular ground of enjoyning this monethly fast, still remaining, and other weighty grounds also more nearly concerning us, namely, the troubles of our own Kingdome, why should we not persevere in using the means for averting Gods wrath, and the fearfull effects thereof from us? That which is recorded of the Jews annuall fasting, in certain set moneths, seventy years together (because the judgements, which moved them first to take up those fasts, continued so long) may be a warrant for our continued monethly fasts. For they are so mentioned by the Prophet (Zech. 7.1 5. & 8. 19.) as they are rather ratified then disavowed.
- 1Public fasts in former times rare, Quid mirum si Christianis temporibus iste mundus tanquam servus jam sciens voluntatem Domini sui & faciens digna plagis vapulat multis Aug. vict. ep. 122.