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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.
2. By renewing an excellency in some of them after their fall.
2. By renewing an excellencie in some of them after their fall.
By reason of that primary excellency,1 Adam and Angels are styled sons of God:2 for in regard of those divine qualities, and that glorious estate wherewith he adorned them above other creatures at the beginning, they are said to be made after the Image of God.
By reason of that primarie excellencie,1 Adam and Angels are stiled sonnes of God:2 for in regard of those diuine qualities, and that glorious estate wherewith he adorned them aboue other creatures at the beginning, they are said to be made after the Image of God.
The Image of God, which is a kind of divine excellency, is renewed only in some of the sons of men: and that in a civill and spiritual respect.