A01975:1227
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.
All the sins of the faithful are remissible. I say, of the faithful, because they who have right to say to God, Our Father, (which the faithful who are sons of God only have) are taught thus to pray, and because they by the continual and powerful assistance of Gods Spirit shall be kept from falling ⟨p. 152⟩into the only unpardonable sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost.
All the sinnes of the faithfull are remissible. I say, of the faithfull, because they who haue right to say to God, Our Father, (which the faithfull who are sonnes of God onely haue) are taught thus to pray, and because they by the continuall and powerfull assistance of Gods Spirit shall bee kept from falling ⟨p. 152⟩into the onely vnpardonable sinne, the sinne against the Holy Ghost.
As the free grace of God, and the price which Christ hath paid are the causes, that sin is pardonable: so the infinite riches of that grace,1 and the all-sufficiency of that price are the causes that all manner of sins are likewise pardonable.
As the free grace of God, and the price which Christ hath paid are the causes, that sinne is pardonable: so the infinite riches of that grace,1 aud the all-sufficiencie of that price are the causes that all manner of sinnes are likewise pardonable.