A01975:1536
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. Our need requireth, that being in misery we should be delivered out of it: or else all the good that can be bestowed upon us, will be but as a show or shadow of goodness: no sweetness thereof can be tasted: no benefit can be reaped thereby. Abraham conceiving it to be a great misery to be childless,1 when God graciously promised him to be his shield, and exceeding great reward, he answered, What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless? This supposed evil took away the sweetness from that exceeding great reward which was proffered to him. The Israelites being in grievous bondage, when Moses came to them in the name of the Lord to comfort ⟨p. 205⟩them,2 They hearkened not to him for anguish of spirit. All the delights which the heart of man can desire are as nothing to him that is sick at heart, or tortured with tormenting diseases, if he be not freed from that sickness, and eased of that pain.
2. Our need requireth, that being in misery we should be deliuered out of it: or else all the good that can be bestowed vpon vs, will bee but as a shew or shadow of goodnesse: no sweetnesse thereof can be tasted: no benefit can bee reaped thereby. Abraham conceiuing it to bee a great misery to be childlesse,1 when God graciously promised him to be his shield, and exceeding great reward, he answered, What wilt thou giue me, seeing I goe childlesse? This supposed euill tooke away the sweetnesse from that exceeding great reward which was proffered to him. The Israelites being in grieuous bondage, when Moses came to them in the name of the Lord to comfort ⟨p. 205⟩them,2 They hearkned not to him for anguish of spirit. All the delights which the heart of man can desire are as nothing to him that is sicke at heart, or tortured with tormenting diseases, if he bee not freed from that sicknesse, and eased of that paine.