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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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2. Though there were not such extraordinary means publicly used:1 yet they were by pious and devout Christians privately, and that frequently and fervently used. ⟨p. 32⟩Never was a Parliament called, never was an Army sent forth, never was there any public weighty occasion, but that such Christians as are before mentioned, assembled together, by prayer and fasting, to seek a blessing of God. I well remember, that at that very time when the Gun-powder treason was discovered (a Parliament being summoned) there were many assemblies that by prayer and fasting, earnestly sought of God a blessing upon that Parliament. Have we not cause to judge, that God had a gracious respect to the prayers of his children, who almost miraculously discovered such a dangerous, devilish and matchless treason, as the Gun-powder treason was.
2. Though there were not such extraordinary means publikely used:1 yet they were by pious and devout Christians privately, and that frequently and fervently used. ⟨p. 32⟩Never was a Parliament called, never was an Army sent forth, never was there any publike weighty occasion, but that such Christians as are before mentioned, assembled together, by praier and fasting, to seek a blessing of God. I well remember, that at that very time when the Gun-powder treason was discovered (a Parliament being summoned) there were many assemblies that by praier and fasting, earnestly sought of God a blessing upon that Parliament. Have we not cause to judge, that God had a gracious respect to the praiers of his children, who almost miraculously discovered such a dangerous, devilish and matchlesse treason, as the Gun-powder treason was.
- 1Frequent fasts of old in private.