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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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Very few public fasts were betwixt that and another greater plague, in the year, 1625. when there was also a weekly fast enjoined by public authority: at which time God gave a very gracious return to the prayers of his people: for the plague decreased much faster then it increased, and in short time from the number of five thousand two hundred and five that died in one week, it came so utterly to cease, as not one at all to die of that sickness.
Very few publike fasts were betwixt that and another greater plague, in the year, 1625. when there was also a weekly fast enjoyned by publike authority: at which time God gave a very gracious return to the praiers of his people: for the plague decreased much faster then it increased, and in short time from the number of five thousand two hundred and five that died in one week, it came so utterly to cease, as not one at all to die of that sicknesse.
If it be said, that in those times wherein there were so few or no fasts, God exceedingly blessed this Kingdom, I answer:
1. That God might put off his displeasure for neglect of those duties, till after and worser times, and that he may in these our days, remember that neglect. Such an answer doth Jeremiah give to the men of Judah that made such an objection, Jer. 44. 17, &c.
1. That God might put off his displeasure for neglect of those duties, till after and worser times, and that he may in these our daies, remember that neglect. Such an answer doth Jeremy give to the men of Judah that made such an objection, Jer. 44. 17, &c.