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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.
Q. What do we acknowledge by this correlative particle OUR, as it is the first person?
Q. VVHat do we acknowledge by this correlatiue particle OVR, as it is the first person?
A. That God is not only the Father of Christ, and of other men but our Father also:1 as if one praying alone, and for himself should say as Christ did,2 O my Father: and, as Thomas said to Christ, my Lord and my God.
A. That God is not onely the Father of Christ, and of other men but our Father also:1 as if one praying alone, and for himselfe should say as Christ did,2 O my Father: and, as Thomas said to Christ, my Lord and my God.
If it be objected, that that which is uttered in the plural number is not particularly applied to ones self: I answer, that though it be not applied to ones self only, and alone, yet it may be to him jointly with others. Though I believe God to be a common Father of many (which the plural number implieth) yet that hindereth not, but that I may reckon my self in that number: and so make the application to my self. Thus much is fitly expressed in this speech of Christ,