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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.
A. No man is free from sin. 1As this Prayer, so this Petition therein is prescribed for every one on earth: which by just consequence implieth, that every one is guilty of sin: otherwise he had no need to pray for forgiveness. But besides this necessary consequence, the point is in express termsb oft set down in Scripture.3 And every one, whose eyes the god of this world hath not blinded,4 and whose heart and conscience he hath not hardened and seared,5 findeth it by woeful experience to be too true.6 Neither can it be otherwise, because original corruption, the mother and nurse of sin abideth in him so long as any breath and life remaineth.
A. No man is free from sinne. 1As this Prayer, so this Petition therein is prescribed for euery one on earth: which by iust consequence implyeth, that euery one is guiltie of sinne: otherwise he had no need to pray for forgiuenesse. But besides this necessarie consequence, the point is in expresse termesb oft set downe in Scripture.3 And euery one, whose eyes the god of this world hath not blinded,4 and whose heart and conscience hee hath not hardened and seared,5 findeth it by wofull experience to be too true.6