A01975:1786
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.
Q. What other doctrine maybe gathered from this deprecation directed to God?
Q. VVHat other doctrine maybe gathered from this deprecation directed to God?
A. God hath an over-ruling hand in all temptations. 1The Lord who hath taken away your sin, and pardoned your offences, can preserve and keep you from the wiles of your adversary the devil. He can either keep us safe from all: or he can give us over into the power of every one. Otherwise there would not be such cause of flying to him in time of temptation, as in this Petition is implied. But true is that of Saint Peter, The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations: and this of Saint Paul, God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able.2
A. God hath an ouer-ruling hand in all temptations. 1The Lord who hath taken away your sinne, and pardoned your offences, can preserue and keepe you from the wiles of your aduersarie the diuell. He can either keepe vs safe from all: or he can giue vs ouer into the power of euery one. Otherwise there would not be such cause of flying to him in time of temptation, as in this Petition is implyed. But true is that of Saint Peter, The Lord knoweth how to deliuer the godly out of temptations: and this of Saint Paul, God is faithfull, who will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you are able.2
- 1Potens est dominus qui abstulit peccatum vesti•• & delicta vestra donavi•, tueri & custodire vos aduersum diaboli aduersantis insidias. Aug. de verb. Dom. c. 28.