A85486:66
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.
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 place where this religious duty was performed is first indefinitely set down,1 under this relative, there. It hath reference to ver. 15. where mention is made of Ezra's gathering together such as should go with him to Jerusalem. At that place where they were gathered together, there they kept this fast.
The place where this religious duty was performed is first indefinitely set down,1 under this relative, there. It hath reference to ver. 15. where mention is made of Ezras gathering together such as should go with him to Jerusalem. At that place where they were gathered together, there they kept this fast.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
2.1 In particular this place is set out by a river which ran along by it: for it is here said to be, at the river Ahava. This name is thrice used in this Chapter:2 as in this text, in the 15, & 33. verses. We do not elsewhere read of this name, either in sacred Scripture, or in any other Author. The Septuagint translate it, [Greek or Hebrew] Some take Ahava to be the name of a Town: and this river to be so called, because it did run to Ahava (as vers. 15.) Many rivers are called by the names of those Towns which they run along by. This may be the same that is by other Authors called Adiava. Josephus in the eleventh book and fifth Chapter of the Antiquities of the Jews, saith, That this fast was kept by Euphrates. It may be that this river did stream out of Euphrates, or into it, as sundry rivers did in sundry places.