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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.
2. The Precedence of it before the sixth.
2. The Precedence of it before the sixt.
Q. What doctrine doth that inference afford?
A. By pardon of sin the things of this world are made true blessings. All the things which in this prayer we are taught to crave, are so to be craved as blessings. But sin is as deadly poison to daily bread: while it remaineth upon us unpardoned, nothing that this world affordeth can be a true blessing: for sin bringeth a curse upon every creature that we use:1 but pardon of sin taketh away that curse, and so maketh all that we use to be true blessings.2 That man therefore is pronounced blessed whose transgression is forgiven.
A. By pardon of sinne the things of this world are made true blessings. All the things which in this prayer we are taught to craue, are so to be craued as blessings. But sinne is as deadly poyson to daily bread: while it remaineth vpon vs vnpardoned, nothing that this world affordeth can be a true blessing: for sinne bringeth a curse vpon euerie creature that we vse:1 but pardon of sinne taketh away that curse, and so maketh all that wee vse to be true blessings.2 That man therefore is pronounced blessed whose transgression is forgiuen.