A01975:1945
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.
9. Sufficient grace to bear out assaults when we are tempted. For sometimes it is needful for us to be tempted. Then our request ought to be that that which is needful may prove useful and profitable:1 which cannot be without Gods grace. This therefore God gave in the time of temptation to his Apostle:2 teaching us thereby in the like case to pray for the like grace.
9. Sufficient grace to beare out assaults when wee are tempted. For sometimes it is needfull for vs to be tempted. Then our request ought to bee that that which is needfull may proue vsefull and profitable:1 which cannot be without Gods grace. This therefore God gaue in the time of temptation to his Apostle:2 teaching vs thereby in the like case to pray for the like grace.
- 12. Cor. 12. 9.
- 2Primus hostis caro est aduersus spiritum concupiscence. Hostem hunc crudelissimum nec fugere possumus nec fugare: circum•erre illam necesse est, quoniam alligatus est nobis. Nam quod est m•serabilius, hostem nostrum ipsi cogimur sustentare, perimere eum non licet. Bern. de Evang. 7. Pan. Ser. 3.Primus hostis caro est aduersus spiritum concupiscens. Hostem hunc crudelissimum nec fugere possumus nec fugare: circum•erre illam necesse est, quoniam alligatus est nobis. Nam quod est m•serabilius, hostem nostrum ipsi cogimur sustentare, perimere eum non licet. Bern. de Euang. 7. Pan. Ser. 3.