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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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The God that hath promised to work such strange works can remove the afore-said difficulties, 1and greater then them. But he is to be sought unto, and the more difficult the case is, the more earnest and fervent must our prayers be. When Herod had apprehended Peter, and put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers, intending to bring him forth to the people, and to slay him: prayer was made without ceasing, or instant and earnest prayer was made of the Church unto God for him, and God so heard their prayer as he delivered Peter, Act. 12. 4, &c.
The God that hath promised to work such strange works can remove the afore-said difficulties, 1and greater then them. But he is to be sought unto, and the more difficult the case is, the more earnest and fervent must our praiers be. When Herod had apprehended Peter, and put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternians of souldiers, intending to bring him forth to the people, and to slay him: praier was made without ceasing, or instant and earnest praier was made of the Church unto God for him, and God so heard their praier as he delivered Peter, Act. 12. 4, &c.
- 1God more then ordinarily to be sought unto
Who would have thought that the mischievous device of Haman, 1should have turned to such an advantage unto the Church as it did? But that was from the Lord, and obtained by fasting and prayer, Esth. 4. 17.