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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.
§. 237. Of the necessary use of this clause, Thine is the Kingdom, and the power and the glory for ever.
§. 237. Of the necessary vse of this clause, Thine is the Kingdome, and the power and the glory for euer.
Q. What doth the acknowledgement of Gods properties singly considered import?
Q. WHat doth the acknowledgement of Gods properties singly considered import?
A. A form of praise.1 For where mention is made of Davids blessing God, it is set down in this form, ⟨p. 322⟩Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, &c. Thus is this clause (Thine is the Kingdom and the power, and the glory for ever) the second part of the Lords Prayer: whereby the perfection of that Prayer is set out.2 For prayer consisteth of these two parts Petition & Praise. 3They therefore who wholly omit this clause, and cast it out of this pattern of Prayer make it an imperfect pattern: as Papists who throughout their whole Liturgy have omitted it. Yea the vulgar Latin translation hath left it out of the text, in that place where it is expressed by S. Matthew: and the Rhemists english translation doth so also.4