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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.
That which they here seek, they seek for many.
1. For themselves. For US, say they; for every one is his own keeper, and hath a charge of himself: every one must care for himself and for his own welfare: and every one is to give an account of himself to God, Rom. 14. 12.
1. For themselves. For VS, say they; for every one is his own keeper, and hath a charge of himself: every one must care for himself and for his own welfare: and every one is to give an account of himself to God, Rom. 14. 12.
2. They seek a right way for their little ones. 1Hereby are meant their children: such as could not seek their own good. The Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew] taph, is indeed of the singular number, and never used in the plural, yet translated in the plural, little ones: for it is a collective word, and signifieth a company of children, and of such as can scarce go. Or if they do go, they do it weakly and staggeringly. They waddle, as we speak. The verb that cometh from the same root, is applied to the gate of haughty women, and thus translated, Mincing as they go, or tripping nicely, Isa. 3. 16. The children comprised under the Hebrew word, were such as they, of whom God thus saith, There are more then six score ⟨p. 12⟩thousand persons, that cannot discern betwixt their right hand and their left,