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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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But to leave complaints,1 the Doctrine which you have heard largely handled, doth justify that course which the great Council of this Land hath taken about this days fast. The means that we use, hath been showed to be extraordinary. He that sees not that the case wherein we now are, and the occasion of this days solemnity is extraordinary, is blind, and cannot see far off.
But to leave complaints,1 the Doctrine which you have heard largely handled, doth justifie that course which the great Councel of this Land hath taken about this daies fast. The means that we use, hath been shewed to be extraordinary. He that sees not that the case wherein we now are, and the occasion of this daies solemnity is extraordinary, is blinde, and cannot see far off.
- 1The weighty occasion of this days fast.The weighty occasion of this daies fast.
I will not now stand to aggravate this civil war (the severest of Gods judgements) nor bring to your mind the houses,1 Towns, and Cities that have been burnt or plundered, or spoiled: nor the distressed estates of many ⟨p. 33⟩who in a night of a rich Job have bin made a poor Job: nor the abundance of blood that hath been shed: nor the alienation of affections, and bitter contentions that have been betwixt such as have been near in blood and alliance, in neighbourhood and friendship, yea also and betwixt such as profess in truth and sincerity to seek the right and perfect way of the LORD: neither will I here insist upon the errors, heresies, and blasphemies that in these days are published: nor the great rent that is made in this Church by schism. These and other like occasions of humbling our selves deeply before the LORD, and of crying mightily unto him, I now let pass.