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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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EZRA 8. 21. Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might afflict our selves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
This text is taken out of the first of those* three Historical books, which the holy Ghost saw meet to be recorded for all ages, concerning the state of the Jewish Church, after their return from their seventy years captivity under the Babylonians.2
THis text is taken out of the first of those* three Historicall books, which the holy Ghost saw meet to be recorded for all ages, concerning the state of the Jewish Church, after their return from their seventy years captivity under the Babylonians.2
- *Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
- 2Three Patriots came from the captivity to Jerusalem.
They had three famous Patriots, who each of them ⟨p. 2⟩one after another, came to Jerusalem for some special good to the Church of God.