A01975:1707
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
Petition 5 › Section 168: §. 168. Of that matter of Humiliation which the fifth Petition affordeth.
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.
7. Our disability to discharge our debt of obedience. God gave us power at first to fulfil all righteousness. But now there is, while we live in this world,1 an impossibility thereto. Of this doth Saint Paul thus complain,2 To perform that which is good I find not.
7. Our disabilitie to discharge our debt of obedience. God gaue vs power at first to fulfill all righteousnesse. But now there is, while wee liue in this world,1 an impossibilitie thereto. Of this doth Saint Paul thus complaine,2 To performe that which is good I find not.
8. Ignorance of the Gospel. By the Gospel the only means of discharging our debt is revealed. How then can they be discharged ⟨p. 225⟩who know it not. In this respect doth the Apostle with great grief thus set forth the doom of such ignorant persons: If our Gospel be hid, 1it is hid to them that are lost, &c.
8. Ignorance of the Gospell. By the Gospell the onely meanes of discharging our debt is reuealed. How then can they be discharged