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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. Not such things as import impotency, or imperfection. Gods power were not omnipotent, but rather impotent, if those were within the circuit thereof. Such phrases therefore as these,e Cannot, fImpossible, are, in relation to those things, applied to God.
A. Not such things as import impotencie, or imperfection. Gods power were not omnipotent, but rather impotent, if those were within the circuit thereof. Such phrases therefore as these,e Cannot, fImpossible, are, in relation to those things, applyed to God.
Some of the particulars, which by reason of omnipotency, God cannot do, are these.
Some of the particulars, which by reason of omnipotencie, God cannot do, are these.
1. Matters of contradiction: as one thing at the same time to be and not to be: or one and the same thing to be infinite, and finite. Such things are in their nature impossible. And God cannot establish them, because they are against truth, and imply impotency. For whatsoever is, it is by the power of the Creator: and by his power it is as it is. If withal it be not when it is, or be contrary to what the Creator maketh it, where is the power of the Creator? If he himself should be supposed to establish such contradictions, he cannot be supposed to establish them by his power. The one part is by power, the other therefore must be, if it could be, by that which is contrary to power, even by impotency.