A01975:1565
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. They are more absolutely necessary.1 We may want the temporal things of this world, and yet not be miserable. God can turn that want to our advantage.2 But the want of spiritual blessings maketh us extremely miserable. True happiness consisteth in the fruition of these. Yea the happiness of our temporal well-fare consisteth in our spiritual well-fare. No benefit, no comfort can be received from all that this world affordeth, unless sin be pardoned and we freed from the power thereof.
2. They are more absolutely necessarie.1 We may want the temporall things of this world, and yet not be miserable. God can turne that want to our aduantage.2 But the want of spirituall blessings maketh vs extreamely miserable. True happinesse consisteth in the fruition of these. Yea the happinesse of our temporall well-fare consisteth in our spirituall well-fare. No benefit, no comfort can be receiued from all that this world affordeth, vnlesse sinne be pardoned and we freed from the power thereof.
- 1Things of the soul most necessary.Things of the soule most necessarie.
- 2Luke 10. 42.
3. We are by nature more dull and backward to seek after things spiritual,1 then temporal. These are visible, and the sweetness of them is more sensible, sooner discerned, and more easily tasted. The other being invisible, are more insensible. So as we have more need to be the more earnest in seeking of them.