A01975:1708
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.
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 ⟨p. 225⟩who know it not. In this respect doth the Apostle with great griefe thus set forth the doome of such ignorant persons: If our Gospell be hid, 1it is hid to them that are lost, &c.
9. Hardness of heart. This makes men senseless both of the burden of sin: and also of Gods wrath and vengeance against sin: which maketh God to think of greater and greater vengeance. When Christ observed hardness to possess the hearts of the Jews,1 he mourned for it.
9. Hardnesse of heart. This makes men sencelesse both of the burther of sinne: and also of Gods wrath and vengeance against sinne: which maketh God to thinke of greater and greater vengeance. When Christ obserued hardnesse to possesse the hearts of the Iewes,1