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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.
Those two words are used as proper names. The former importeth, straitness. The later, strength.
Those two words are used as proper names. The former importeth, straitnes. The later, strength.
If Pillars whereon Edifices do rest be not as Jachin and Boaz, 1straight and strong, they cannot be serviceable. If they be not straight, but crooked, the building resting on them, may sway aside. If they be not strong, but weak, and the burden resting on them, heavy, they may fail, and the building fall.
If Pillars whereon Edifices doe rest be not as Jachin and Boaz, 1streight and strong, they cannot be serviceable. If they be not streight, but crooked, the building resting on them, may sway aside. If they be not strong, but weak, and the burden resting on them, heavy, they may fail, and the building fall.
- 1Alterum à [Greek or Hebrew] obfirmavit. Inde [Greek or Hebrew] robur.Alterum à 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 obfirmavit. Inde 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 robur.
Integrity and magnanimity will do much for quieting our present distractions.