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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
Petition 6 › Section 202: §. 202. Of the matter of humiliation gathered out of the last Petition.
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.
3. The many stumbling blocks in the world. 1In regard of these Christ crieth,2 Woe to the world. These are so much the more to be bewailed by reason of the deceitfulness of the world which so bewitcheth many, as it draweth them to those stumbling blocks, and maketh them to stumble and fall thereat, as Demas did. Yea on this ground our love, even too too inordinate love,3 of this world is to be bewailed.4
3. The many stumbling blockes in the world. 1In regard of these Christ cryeth,2 Woe to the world. These are so much the more to be bewailed by reason of the deceitfulnesse of the world which so bewitcheth many, as it draweth them to those stumbling blockes, and maketh them to stumble and fall thereat, as Demas did. Yea on this ground our loue, euen too too inordinate loue,3 of this world is to be bewailed.4
- 1Math. 18. 7.
- 2Heu me, quot obstacula separant, quot prohibent impedimenta? Bern. In Quadr. Serm. 6.
- 32. Tim. 4. 10.
- 4Jam. 4. 4.