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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.
Q. May not God be called upon in the singular number thus, My Father.
Q. May not God be called vpon in the singular number thus, My Father.
A. 1Yes: in private by one alone he may, so did Christ. Saint Paul also did in such a manner give thanks unto God. Yea thus we are directed by the Prophet to call upon God,2 and to say, My Father. 3Yet may not one so apply in particular Gods Fatherhood to himself,4 as to appropriate it to himself: nor yet to be unmindful of others in his prayers, contrary to the scope ⟨p. 22⟩of expressing this relation in the plural number, OUR. This form is not set down to bind us so strictly to the words or syllables, as never to swerve from them: but it is set down rather to teach us what to aim at in the manner and matter of our prayers.
A. 1Yes: in priuate by one alone he may, so did Christ. Saint Paul also did in such a manner giue thanks vnto God. Yea thus we are directed by the Prophet to call vpon God,2 and to say, My Father. 3Yet may not one so apply in particular Gods Fatherhood to himselfe,4