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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.
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, Jon. 4. 11. They that were of age and understanding, whether male or female, Governors or under government, joined all together in the Fast, and are comprised under this particle US. But the little ones, who could not join with them in that holy duty, are here distinguished from them, and are prayed for.
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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 taph, is indeed of the singular number, and never used in the plurall, yet translated in the plurall, 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⟩