A01975:1254
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.
2 I have put away thy transgressions as a cloud, 1and thy sins as a mist, saith the same Lord. We know that the clouds which are driven away by the winds appear no more, nor the mist which is dried up by the Sun. Other clouds, other mists may arise: but not they which are driven away and dried up. Thus the sins which God forgiveth return not again.
2 I haue put away thy transgressions as a cloud, 1and thy sinnes as a mist, saith the same Lord. Wee know that the clouds which are driuen away by the winds appeare no more, nor the mist which is dried vp by the Sunne. Other clouds, other mists may arise: but not they which are driuen away and dryed vp. Thus the sinnes which God forgiueth returne not againe.
3. The same Lord saith, Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as show; 1though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Scarlet and crimson are double and deep dies, dies in grain, yet if the cloth died therewith be as the wool before ⟨p. 157⟩it was died, if it be as white as snow, what is become of those dies? Are they any more? Is not the cloth as if it had not been died at all? Even so, though our sins, by reiterating them, by long lying in them, have deeply seized into us, yet by Gods discharge of them, we are as if we never had committed them.
3. The same Lord saith, Though your sinnes be as skarlet, they shall be as white as show;