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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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But not to insist upon the title,1 certainly the place which is here described by the river,2 was a fair and fit place for the Israelites to assemble themselves together in: like that place which was by a rivers side near to Philippi, where prayer was wont to be made by Christians, Act. 16. 13. There were in the Country of Babylon many sweet rivers, and goodly pastures, yea and woods too. Hereunto the Psalmist alludeth, Psal. 137. 1, 2. in these words, By the rivers of Babylon there we sate down, &c. They being many, and the place convenient, there they perform their solemn sacred duties. The affection of him that prayeth is more regarded then the place.
But not to insist upon the title,1 certainly the place which is here described by the river,2 was a fair and fit place for the Israelites to assemble themselves together in: like that place which was by a rivers side near to Philippi, where praier was wont to be made by Christians, Act. 16. 13. There were in the Countrey of Babylon many sweet rivers, and goodly pastures, yea and woods too. Hereunto the Psalmist alludeth, Psal. 137. 1, 2. in these words, By the rivers of Babylon there we sate down, &c. They being many, and the place convenient, there they perform their solemn sacred duties. The affection of him that praieth is more regarded then the place.
- 1A fast kept by a river side.
- 2Legi• a Deo nomullos ex• dittos in excelsis montium: unde intelligitur mg valere petentis ffectum, quam petitionis locum. Aug. de unit. Eccl c. 16.