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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Dedication: TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HOUSE OF PEERS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Can it be hoped that it should be done by sword? The Law is dumb while the Sword is drawn.1
- 1Silent leges inter arma. Cic pre Milon.
Will Conquerors yield to an Accommodation? Having the staff in their own hands, Will they not stand upon their own terms?
Will Conquerours yeeld to an Accommodation? Having the staff in their own hands, Will they not stand upon their own terms?
By force men may for a time be kept in awe.1 But that AWE is no good keeper of a lasting peace.
- 1Malus est cust•s diuturnitatis, metus. Cic. Offic l. 2.
Right Honourable, It will be Your Wisdom and Glory,