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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. We do not there only crave the thing it self, but a blessing with it. Now the blessing of the least creature is a weighty matter: more then all the world can give. Without the blessing the creature it self is nothing.1 For man liveth not by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
2. We do not there onely craue the thing it selfe, but a blessing with it. Now the blessing of the least creature is a weighty matter: more then all the world can giue. Without the blessing the creature it selfe is nothing.1 For man liueth not by bread onely, but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man liue.
3. Though temporal blessings in their kind be comparatively small,1 yet in their end they are of great worth. Their proper end is to enable us the better to do that work which God hath enjoined us to do, and to honour him in this world, which the living only can do.2 In this respect we are to crave them not singly,3 and simply in themselves, but as means to enable us to honour God, and to do good unto our brethren.
3. Though temporall blessings in their kinde be comparatiuely small,1