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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
Preface › Section 15: §. 15. Of the Saints participation of one anothers Prayers.
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.
§. 15. Of the Saints participation of one another's Prayers.
§. 15. Of the Saints participation of one anothers Prayers.
Q. What is that privilege of the Saints that is gathered out of this phrase, Our Father?
Q. VVHat is that priuiledge of the Saints that is gathered out of this phrase, Our Father?
A. They mutually partake of the benefits of one another's Prayers. For it may well be taken for grant, that this form being prescribed by Christ,1 they in whom the Spirit of Christ is, do accordingly use it: and so pray for all whose Father God is. For this is a public and common Prayer: and when we pray, we pray not for one, but for the whole Church, because we are all one. A great privilege this will appear to be, if the benefit of Prayer be rightly discerned. And a great comfort it must needs be to such weak ones, as cannot pray as they desire. The privilege of the Communion of Saints, in nothing more appears, then in the mutual participation of one another's prayers.
A. They mutually partake of the benef•is of one anothers Prayers. For it may well be taken for grant, that this forme being prescribed by Christ,