A01975:1958
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.
6. A blessed departure out of this world. So long as we are in this world we are subject to many evils, which lie and press sore upon us. But by death we are delivered from them all: at lest if our death be in the Lord. For they only are blessed that die in the Lord. They which die not in the Lord, are not delivered from evil: but like the fish which leapeth out of warm water into flaming fire,1 go from the less evil into the greater by many degrees.
6. A blessed departure out of this world. So long as wee are in this world we are subiect to many euills, which lie and presse sore vpon vs. But by death we are deliuered from them all: at lest if our death be in the Lord. For they only are blessed that die in the Lord. They which die not in the Lord, are not deliuered from euill: but like the fish which leapeth out of warme water into flaming fier,1 go from the lesse euill into the greater by many degrees.
Q. May a man then pray for death?
A. Not simply and absolutely, with desire to have the time appointed by God, prevented, but with submission to the good pleasure of God. Concerning our departure out of this world two things are here intended. 1. That we be willing no depart. 2. That our departure be in the Lord. Both these are ⟨p. 266⟩