A01975:1103
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. To renew our covenant with God every day. For every sin maketh forfeiture of the covenant. The covenant being forfeited, with what comfort can we apply it to our selves? with what confidence can we plead it before God?
3. To renue our couenant with God euery day. For euery sin maketh forfeiture of the couenant. The couenant being forfeited, with what comfort can wee apply it to our selues? with what confidence can we plead it before God?
4. To repent daily.b Repentance is a proviso annexed to a mans forgiving his brother.2 Much more doth God expect it of such as expect forgiveness of him. He that sinneth seven times in a day, must repent seven times in a day. As sin incenseth wrath, so repentance for sin maketh God to repent his wrath. Because therefore there is no day wherein a man is without sin, he ought not to be one day without repentance.
4. To repent daily.b Repentance is a prouiso annexed to a mans forgiuing his brother.2 Much more doth God expect it of such as expect forgiuenesse of him. He that sinneth seuen times in a day, must repent seuen times in a day. As sinne incenseth wrath, so repentance for sin maketh God to repent his wrath. Because therefore there is no day wherein a man is without sin, he ought not to be one day without repentance.
- bLuke 17. 4.
- 2Quia nullus est dies in quo […] possit esse sie peccato, una die esse non debet si ne paenitentia. Aug. in Apoc. Hom. 2.