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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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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.
The first particle in my Text,1 translated then, is in the Hebrew a copulative conjunction Vau, and. It knitteth together the care that Ezra had in gathering together such persons as were needful for him, and might be useful and helpful unto him (verse 18, 19, 20.) and the means which by Gods Word was warranted for procuring a blessing upon their endeavours.2 Thus he joineth humane helps, and divine assistance together. He doth this and that. To omit humane warranted helps, is to tempt God; as the devil would have Christ done, when he bid him cast himself down from the pinnacle of the Temple, there being ordinary means whereby he might safely descend, Mat. 4. 5, 6. To trust to humane helps without God is to neglect God, and to presume: as Asa did, 2 Chron. 16. 12. In his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the Physicians. Thereby he brought Gods wrath upon himself.
The first particle in my Text,1 translated then, is in the Hebrew a copulative conjunction Vau, and. It knitteth together the care that Ezra had in gathering together such persons as were needfull for him, and might be usefull and helpfull unto him (verse 18, 19, 20.) and the means which by Gods Word was warranted for procuring a blessing upon their endeavours.2 Thus he joyneth humane helps, and divine assistance together. He doth this and that. To omit humane warranted helps, is to tempt God; as the devil would have Christ done, when he bid him cast himself down from the pinacle of the Temple, there being ordinary means whereby he might safely descend, Mat. 4. 5, 6. To trust to humane helps without God is to neglect God, and to presume: as Asa did, 2 Chron. 16. 12. In his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the Physitians. Thereby he brought Gods wrath upon himself.