A01975:1930
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.
1. In regard of the whole, we ought to pray for Sanctification. Thus doth Saint Paul pray for the Thessalonians, 1The very God of Peace sanctify you wholly. As our own happiness moveth us to pray for Justification, in the former Petition, that we may be acquitted of sin, for which we should otherwise be damned: so the honour of God should move us to pray for sanctification.2 For this is the will of God, our sanctification, and thereby is the holy God much honoured.
1. In regard of the whole, we ought to pray for Sanctification. Thus doth Saint Paul pray for the Thessalonians, 1The very God of Peace sanctifie you wholly. As our owne happinesse moueth vs to pray for Iustification, in the former Petition, that wee may be acquitted of sinne, for which we should otherwise be damned: so the honour of God should moue vs to pray for sanctification.2 For this is the will of God, our sanctification, and thereby is the holy God much honoured.
2. In regard of the manner of setting down this Petition negatively, we are taught to pray for Freedom against the power of sin, 1as the Psalmist doth where he saith, Cleanse me from secret faults: keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. For in sin there is a guilt which maketh us liable to Gods vengeance (this is prayed against in the Fifth Petition) and a power which holdeth us in bondage, and maketh us such slaves thereto, as we cannot serve God.