A01975:1935
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.
§. 195. Of the particulars for which we are to pray by virtue of the first part of the last Petition.
§. 195. Of the particulars for which we are to pray by vertue of the first part of the last Petition.
Q. What are the particulars to be prayed for under the first part of the Sixth Petition?
Q. VVHat are the particulars to be prayed for vnder the first part of the Sixt Petition?
A. 1. Knowledge of our spiritual enemies. Without knowledge of them, there will be no fear of them, no desire of help and succour against them, or of freedom from them.1 The people of Laish not knowing that the Danites were their enemies, or that they had any purpose to surprise them, were secure, and made no preparations for their own defence: and so were utterly vanquished. Such ignorance maketh most in the world so secure as they are Experience showeth that the more ignorant any are, the more deeply they are implunged into Satan's snares, and the faster held thereby. Here therefore we must pray for knowledge of the distinct kinds of our spiritual enemies: of their number, might, malice, subtlety, and sedulity. That we may the better know all these, the Apostle doth largely and distinctly describe them, Ephes. 6. 12.
A. 1. Knowledge of our spirituall enemies. Without knowledge of them, there will be no feare of them, no desire of helpe and succour against them, or of freedome from them.1