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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.
§. 169. Of the Sum and several parts of the sixth Petition.
§. 169. Of the Summe and seuerall parts of the sixth Petition.
Q. Which is the sixth Petition?
Q. VVHich is the sixt Petition?
A. And lead us not into temptation:1 But deliver us from evil.
A. And leade vs not into temptation:1 But deliuer vs from euill.
- 1Some distinguish these words, And lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil, into two several Petitions: making the subject matter of the one to be malum futurum, tuill to come, and of the other, malum praesens, evil present, and already fallen out. But this distinction in this place cannot hold. For the latter branch respecteth evil to come, as well as evil present. And the discretive particle [Greek or Hebrew], but, showeth that they are not, as the other, distinct Petitions; for then would the last clause have been distinguished from the former, as the former is from the fifth Petition, and the fifth from the fourth, thus, AND deliver us from evil, Many of the ancient Fathers (following the old Latin translation) leave out this last clause, and that because they conceive (as Saint Augustine expresseth their mind and meaning) it belongeth to the former concerning temptation: whereby they imply, that if both the clauses were expressed, they would make but one Petition. Yet are they not to be taken as a repetition of one and the same point, but as two distinct parts and branches of the same general matter: and so do most of the ancient Fathers and later judicious and Orthodox Divines take them. See §. 2.