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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.
§. 147. Of forgiving one another freely.
§. 147. Of forgiuing one another freely.
Q. What other doctrine doth the resemblance betwixt Gods forgiving, and ours, import?
Q. VVHat other doctrine doth the resemblance betwixt Gods forgiuing, and ours, import?
A. We must freely forgive one another. The word forgive applied to God, implieth as much. We therefore professing to forgive As God forgiveth, must forgive freely, ⟨p. 185⟩not on by-respects, not as forced, not for outward recompense, or advantage to our selves, but for the Lords sake, for loves sake, and for his sake whom we do forgive. Where the Apostle before this duty of forgiveness premiseth kindness and tenderness, 1saying, Be kind one to another and tender-hearted, forgiving one another, he giveth us to understand that it must be freely done: which is further enforced by the pattern of God that he setteth before us, in these words, Even as God for Christs sake forgave you. That which God doth for Christs sake, he doth most freely. This pattern the Apostle himself exactly followed. For where he maketh mention of his own forgiving another, he saith,2 I forgave in the person, or in the sight of Christ, that is, freely, heartily, approving my self to Christ therein, in whose presence I stood.