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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.
Our sins, our sins have made the breach. Our Repentance must make to the repairing of the breach. The people repented them for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel, Judg. 21. 15.
Our sinnes, our sinnes have made the breach. Our Repentance must make to the repairing of the breach. The people repented them for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel, Judg. 21. 15.
Their Cause was just,1 yet they repented when they saw how great the breach was. They did not so much glory in their victory, as grieve for the destruction of a Tribe in Israel.
Their Cause was just,1 yet they repented when they saw how great the breach was. They did not so much glorie in their victory, as grieve for the destruction of a Tribe in Israel.
- 1De victoria sibi non tantum grotulantur, quam de clade tribus Israeleticae conqueruntur.
And is not the breach made among us a great breach? 1Surely it is great like the Sea. Who can heal thee, O England?