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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.
§. 110. Of the difference betwixt Gods absolution, and mans apprehension thereof.
Ob. Gods forgiveness is full, complete, and absolute. Whom once he acquitteth, he never calleth to account again. His discharge is of sins past, present, and to come. What need then of those daily duties?
Ob. GOds forgiuenesse is full, compleate, and absolute. Whom once he acquitteth, he neuer calleth to accompt againe. His discharge is of sinnes past, present, and to come. What need then of those daily duties?
Answ. 1I grant it to be so in the eternal decree and secret counsel: yea and in that covenant which is made betwixt him and his Son, our Surety. But in the application thereof to us, and in our apprehension of it by faith, (whereby only our soul can rest quieted, and assured of it) a proceeding by degrees must be acknowledged. Though a believer do for the present apprehend a full discharge of all the sins whereof he doth then stand guilty, yet through the violence of temptation, and the weakness of flesh, he may again and again make question and doubt of that discharge, especially when he hath fallen into other sins, or returned to the same sins for which he before craved pardon. Oft sinning doth much shake and weaken faith. ⟨p. 133⟩