A01975:1954
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.
2. Dispossession of Satan. Satan is that Evil one that hath his finger in every evil thing. So long as he abideth any where, freedom from evil cannot he expected. If he therefore have really entered into any,1 as he did into the woman of Canaan's daughter, we must pray, as she did, to have him disposest. For by prayer and fasting he may be cast out. 2If otherwise he seize on us by putting into us evil thoughts, or stirring up corrupt humours, or setting before us evil objects, or affrighting us, or vexing us any way in soul or body, we are taught to pray for deliverance from him.
2. Dispossession of Satan. Satan is that Euill one that hath his finger in euery euill thing. So long as hee abideth any where, freedome from euill cannot he expected. If hee therefore haue really entered into any,1 as he did into the woman of Canaans daughter, we must pray, as she did, to haue him dispossest. For by prayer and fasting he may be cast out. 2If otherwise hee seaze on vs by putting into vs euill thoughts, or stirring vp corrupt humours, or setting before vs euill obiects, or affrighting vs, or vexing vs any way in soule or body, we are taught to pray for deliuerance from him.
3. Alienation of heart from the world. They who have been bewitched by the world, so as they have loved the same, and have been entangled therein, which is a great evil, ought to pray to be pulled out of it: and to have their hearts turned from it, as the heart of Amnon was from Tamar: so that the hatred wherewith they hate it,