A01975:1554
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.
1. Our happiness consisteth in the spiritual well-fare of our souls.1 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
1. Our happinesse consisteth in the spirituall well-fare of our soules.1 Blessed is the man vnto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquitie, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
2. Herein lieth a main difference, not only betwixt reasonable and unreasonable creatures, or civill & savage men, or Professors of true religion and idolaters, but also betwixt all ⟨p. 207⟩natural and spiritual men. The natural man, whether he live in the Church or out of it, mindeth only the things of this life. The things of the Spirit of God, 1which concern his soul and the spiritual good thereof, He receiveth not; for they are foolishness to him. Only the spiritual man, who is both in the Church and of the Church, enlightened and guided by that Spirit which is in the Church, and in every part and member thereof, well discerning the things of the Spirit of God, tending to the happiness of his soul, doth carefully seek after them.
2. Herein lyeth a maine difference, not onely betwixt reasonable and vnreasonable creatures, or ciuill & sauage men, or Professors of true religion and idolaters, but also betwixt all ⟨p. 207⟩