A01975:1255
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.
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; 1though they be red like crimson, they shall be as woll. Skarlet and crimson are double and deepe dies, dies in graine, 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 bene died at all? Euen so, though our sinnes, by reiterating them, by long lying in them, haue deepely seazed into vs, yet by Gods discharge of them, wee are as if wee neuer had committed them.
4. Ye are washed, 1saith the Apostle. By washing the filth of things is clean taken away.