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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.
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 and to shew that he is farre more excellent then they: euen as heauen is higher then the earth: and things in heauen 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 heauen.2 Who is like to the Lord our God who dwelleth on high?
- 12. To put difference between God and earthly parents.2. To put difference betweene God and earthly parents.
- 2Psal. 113. 5.
3. To show that he is free from all earthly infirmities:1 and from that changeableness whereunto things on earth are subject. In heaven there is no corruption, dim•uution, or alteration. Much less can there be any such thing in him, who is the chiefest of all in heaven;