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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.
1. In the former place the word body is taken figuratively as was observed before. In the later, properly.
2. In the former place, a man is only restrained from such things as might please the body, but be a prejudice to the soul. In the later the nature of man is weakened.
2. In the former place, a man is only restrained from such things as might please the body, but be a prejudice to the soul. In the later the nature of man is weakned.
3. The beating down, mentioned in the former place better enableth a man to holy duties: but neglecting the body, in the later place, doth oft disenable him thereunto.
3. The beating down, mentioned in the former place better enableth a man to holy duties: but neglecting the body, in the later place, doth oft disinable him therunto.
4. The former is warranted by Gods Word, and required therein, Ephes. 4. 22. The later is from mans vain invention.