A01975:1872
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.
A. There is hope of recovery to such as are fallen. For deliverance from evil presupposeth a fail into evil: and prayer for this deliverance implieth that we may be recovered out of it. This is verified as by manifest experience of many Saints that in all ages have been recovered,1 so by this approved Proverb. A just man falleth seven times and riseth up again: which though it be principally intended of affliction, yet may it also be extended to sin.
A. There is hope of recouerie to such as are fallen. For deliuerance from euill presupposeth a fail into euill: and prayer for this deliuerance implyeth that we may be recouered out of it. This is verified as by manifest experience of many Saints that in all ages haue bene recouered,1 so by this approued Prouerbe. A iust man falleth seuen times and riseth vp againe: which though it bee principally intended of affliction, yet may it also be extended to sinne.
The ground of this hope ariseth from God himself:1 even from his mercy, 2(whereby he is moved to pity his children in all their miseries:3 whereupon saith the Prophet, It is of the Lords mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not:) and from his power (whereby he is able to help them whom he pitieth:4