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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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That he came to Jerusalem,1 to reform Religion, and to settle the true worship of God, and a good government in the Church, is evident by this testimony given unto him, Ezra had prepared his heart, to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgements, chap. 7. 10. So much is also evident by that charge which Artaxerxes King of Persia in his letters patents thus gave unto him, Thou art sent to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand, and to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel; &c. chap. 7. 14, 15, 23.
That he came to Jerusalem,1 to reform Religion, and to settle the true worship of God, and a good government in the Church, is evident by this testimony given unto him, Ezra had prepared his heart, to seek the law of the Lord, and to doe it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgements, chap. 7. 10. So much is also evident by that charge which Artaxerxes King of Persia in his letters patents thus gave unto him, Thou art sent to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand, and to carry the silver and gold which the king and his councellers have freely offered unto the God of Israel; &c. chap. 7. 14, 15, 23.
- 1The Context. Esdras restituit legem. Aug. de Mir. S. S. l. 2. c. 33.
The end which he aimed at, being a very weighty and worthy end, he prudently useth the best means, that he could find warranted in Gods Word, for good success in his under aching thereabout. That means being here set down in my Text, I pass by all by passages, and directly come to my Text.
The end which he aimed at, being a very weighty and worthy end, he prudently useth the best means, that he could finde warranted in Gods Word, for good successe in his under aking thereabout. That means being here set down in my Text, I passe by all bie passages, and directly come to my Text.