A01975:1769
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.
§. 176. Of freeing God from being Author of sin.
§. 176. Of freeing God from being Author of sinne.
Q. Can God be an Author of sin?
Q. CAn God be an Author of sinne?
A. No verily. It is the greatest blasphemy that can be to avouch, or conceit any such thing of God. There is no one thing so contrary to another, not white to black, not darkness to light, not death to life, as sin to God. That which is said of lying, may more generally be said of sin,1 It is impossible (and that in the most strict and absolute kind of impossibility that can be) It is impossible that God should sin,2 or be a cause, or Author of sin. This we ought to believe and profess, 1. because his supreme and absolute power is such as it ought not to be called into question. Is it fit to say to a King, thou art wicked? and to Princes, ye are ungodly? 3how much less to him that accepteth not the person of Princes, &c? 2. because the perfection of his purity is such as it admitteth no mixture.