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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.
A. 1. To make our souls ascend as high as possibly can be when we pray unto him. Above heaven our thoughts cannot ascend. Therefore he is said to be in heaven, which is the highest ⟨p. 24⟩place of all.1 I lift up mine eyes to thee who dwellest in heaven, saith the Psalmist.
A. 1. To make our soules ascend as high as possibly can be when we pray vnto him. Aboue heauen our thoughts cannot ascend. Therefore he is said to be in heauen, which is the highest ⟨p. 24⟩place of all.1 I lift vp mine eyes to thee who dwellest in heauen, saith the Psalmist.
- 1Psal. 123▪ 1.
2. To distinguish God from earthly parents:1 and to show that he is far more excellent then they: even as heaven is higher then the earth: and things in heaven more excellent then things on earth. No Kings or Monarchs, though they should rule from one end of the earth to the other, can be like to our Father which is in heaven.2 Who is like to the Lord our God who dwelleth on high?
2. To distinguish God from earthly parents:1