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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.
3. The kind of discharge. FORGIVE.
3. The kinde of discharge. FORGIVE.
4. The parties to be discharged. US.
4. The parties to be discharged. VS.
Q. What is meant by DEBTS?
A. Sins.c Christ himself declares his own meaning. For immediately after this prayer, he returneth to the condition of this Petition, to urge and press the same somewhat more forcibly: and in the repetition thereof, for debts he putteth trespasses, and that three several times.d Yea Saint Luke setting down this form of prayer, thus expresseth this Petition,e Forgive us our SINS: for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. That which by Matthew is called debts, by Luke is called sins. And whereas Luke in the Petition expresseth sins, in the condition he mentioneth debtors. Again,