A01975:1752
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.
§. 172. Of mans subjection to temptation.
§. 172. Of mans subi•ction to temptation.
Q. What observation may be gathered from the mention of temptation in this deprecation?
Q. WHat obseruation may bee gathered from the mention of temptation in this deprecation?
A. Men in this world are continually subject to temptations. 1This complaint of the Apostle, (I find a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me: and, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?) verifieth as much: so also doth woeful experience in all men. If there be a man that finds not this true in himself, his case is desperate: for either he is deprived of all spiritual understanding and ⟨p. 232⟩sense, that he is not able to discern a temptation: or his whole course of life is so full of temptations, and he such a slave to them, they so frequent on him, and he so free towards them, as he cannot see the wood for trees. He cannot tell when he is tempted, because he is never but tempted. Temptations are not as enemies to him to be resisted: but as his best friends to have the best entertainment that he can afford unto them. Thus a man accounting temptations to be no temptations may in his own imagination be free: but indeed no man is free.