A01975:1212
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
Petition 5 › Section 123: §. 123. Of humiliation and abnegation.
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§. 123. Of humiliation and abnegation.
AS the greatness of the debt wherein man standeth obliged to God, so also mans impotency, and impossibility to discharge it, aggravateth that wretched estate ⟨p. 151⟩whereinto man by sin is implunged, and giveth him much more occasion, and matter of humiliation. If there were just cause to weep much, 1because no man was found worthy to open the sealed Book; how much more cause of weeping and mourning is there, that no man is able to cancel the Bills and Bonds whereby we stand indebted to God, or any way to discharge that debt?
AS the greatnesse of the debt wherein man standeth obliged to God, so also mans impotencie, and impossibilitie to discharge it, aggrauateth that wretched estate ⟨p. 151⟩whereinto man by sinne is implunged, and giueth him much more occasion, and matter of humiliation. If there were iust cause to weepe much, 1because no man was found worthy to open the sealed Booke; how much more cause of weeping and mourning is there, that no man is able to cancell the Bils and Bonds whereby wee stand indebted to God, or any way to discharge that debt?