A01975:1513
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.
5. Or it may be, by reason of an heavy and dull disposition, which maketh them unsensible of wrongs: like him that ⟨p. 199⟩is brought in thus speaking,1 They have stricken me, and I was not sick: they have beaten me, and I felt it not.
5. Or it may be, by reason of an heauy and dull disposition, which maketh them vnsensible of wrongs: like him that ⟨p. 199⟩is brought in thus speaking,1 They haue stricken me, and I was not sicke: they haue beaten me, and I felt it not.
True Christian forgiving,1 is a part or branch of that wisdom which cometh from above, a fruit of that spirit that resideth in Christ,2 an effect of Gods forgiving us. For sons of men are by nature wrathful and revengeful. Wrathful, in that they are very soon upon every small and sleight occasion provoked to wrath, as dry Tinder is ready to be fired by the least spark. Revengeful, in that being provoked, they are as it were on fire with revenge: like Gunpowder, which so soon as it hath taken any fire is instantly all on a flame. The Apostle among other properties of a natural man reckoneth these, maliciousness, envy, debate, malignity (whereby all things are taken in an evil part) implacableness, and unmercifulness. And in another place to the same purpose he saith, we are hateful, and hating one another.