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A guide to go to GodA guide to goe to God
A guide to go to God: or, An explanation of the perfect pattern of prayer, the Lords prayer. By William Gouge, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word in Black-Friars LondonA guide to goe to God: or, An explanation of the perfect patterne of prayer, the Lords prayer. By William Gouge, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word in Black-Friers London
London: printed by G. Miller for Edward Brewster, 1626
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.
Q. 1IS this title Father proper to God?
- 1Father a title proper to God.
A. Yea, most properly it appertaineth to him. For it is the true and proper title of him that giveth a being to that whereof he is called a Father. They therefore among men that under God are instruments of the being of others, who bring children forth into this world, are most usually called Fathers. But it is God only that doth truly and properly give a being to things:1 whereupon Christ saith of him, There is but one your Father, 2which is in heaven: and the Apostle to like purpose, There is but one God, 3the Father: and among other unities he reckons this, One God and Father.
A. Yea, most properly it appertaineth to him. For it is the true and proper title of him that giueth a being to that whereof he is called a Father. They therefore among men that vnder God are instruments of the being of others, who bring children forth into this world, are most vsually called Fathers. But it is God onely that doth truly and properly giue a being to things:1 whereupon Christ saith of him, There is but one your Father, 2which is in heauen: and the Apostle to like purpose, There is but one God, 3the Father: and among other vnities hee reckons this, One God and Father.