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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.
§. 117. Of the many debts wherein we stand bound to Gods justice.
§. 117. Of the many debts wherein we stand bound to Gods iustice.
Q. Why are debts set down so indefinitely in the plural number?
Q. WHy are debts set downe so indefinitely in the plurall number?
A.a Our debts are many. Our sins are of sundry sorts:2 and of every sort there are many in number. First original corruption, which is the seed and spawn of all sins, is a debt. 3Thereby forfeiture is made of that integrity wherein God at first created us, and which Gods Law, that is spiritual, requireth of us.b This doth David expressly reckon up among those sins and debts whereof he desireth to be discharged. Besides all the sins which in our infancy, and younger years, even before our calling, which on ignorance or weakness we committed, are debts: in which respectc the high Priest offered for the errors of the people. These are so many, as David was moved thereby to say,d Who can understand his errors? Yet because they were debts, even the secretest of them, he desireth to be cleansed from them. Much greater debts are the sins which we commit after we come to riper years, or after our calling, against knowledge and conscience, wilfully and presumptuously. Earnestly therefore doth David pray to be