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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.
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,1 to help on this Treaty, Usque ad aras: so far as may stand with piety and verity: with safety and security of Church and State.
Right Honourable, It will be Your Wisdome and Glory,1 to help on this Treaty, Usque ad aras: so farre as may stand with piety and verity: with safety and security of Church and State.
- 1Hominis gratia Numinis reverentia non est violenda.
That under GOD, Ye may be happy instruments hereof, two things are requisite, both on Your own behalf and also on the behalf of all the People of this Land, whom a good issue of the Treaty doth concern.
That under GOD, Ye may be happy instruments hereof, two things are requisite, both on Your own behalfe and also on the behalfe of all the People of this Land, whom a good issue of the Treaty doth concern.