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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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3. The difficulty of bringing this Treaty to a good issue appears in these and other like particulars:1 That principles, of old learned, must be unlearned: That long resolved judgements in sundry cases, must be upon better information, unresolved: That jus divinum held in opposite cases must be cleared and demonstrated to which case ⟨p. 35⟩it belongeth: That inbred scruples of conscience must be rooted out: That embittered and alienated affections must be altered: That incensed and exasperated spirits must be calmed: That hostile friends must be reconciled: That vast debts must be discharged: That the arrears of numberless soldiers must be satisfied: That restitution of ships, goods, lands, hereditaments, livings, offices, and other interests must be made: That indemnity for manifold outrages must be given, and a general oblivion of wrongs must be granted; and burden of the Kingdom taken off.
3. The difficulty of bringing this Treaty to a good issue appears in these and other like particulars:1 That principles, of old learned, must be unlearned: That long resolved judgements in sundry cases, must be upon better information, unresolved: That jus divinum held in opposite cases must be cleared and demonstrated to which case ⟨p. 35⟩it belongeth: That inbred scruples of conscience must be rooted out: That imbittered and alienated affections must be altered: That incensed and exasperated spirits must be calmed: That hostile friends must be reconciled: That vast debts must be discharged: That the arrears of numberlesse souldiers must be satisfied: That restitution of ships, goods, lands, heriditaments, livings, offices, and other interests must be made: That indemnity for manifold outrages must be given, and a generall oblivion of wrongs must be granted; and burthen of the Kingdome taken off.
- 1The great obstacles that lie in the way.The great obstacles that lie in the vvay.