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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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The afflicting of themselves mentioned in my text is a branch of that holy revenge, which is reckoned up among the fruits of godly sorrow, 2 Cor. 7. 11. and it is an evidence of a broken spirit and contrite heart, which David stileth the sacrifices of God, which he will not despise, Psal. 51. 17.
Because hypocrites in an apish imitation of the upright, 1plead that they afflict their souls, Isa. 58. 3. it is here required that it be done before God. Now all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him (Heb. 4. 13.) As a beast cut up, is in all the inward parts and entrails opened before the Butcher: or an anatomy before the Chirurgeon: So are all the things of a man without and within,2 known unto God. God discerneth our secret thoughts and inward disposition, Thou understandeth my thoughts afar off, saith the Psalmist, Psal. 139. 2. It is proper to God alone to search the heart and try the reins, Jer. 17. 10. That therefore is said to be-done before God, which is done from the heart, inwardly, sincerely.
Because hypocrites in an apish imitation of the upright, 1plead that they afflict their souls, Isa. 58. 3. it is here required that it be done before God. Now all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him (