A01975:2488
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.
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If the words spoken be not understood,1 they are as spoken into the air, altogether in vain: and the speaker and hearer are as Barbarians one to another. No more benefit can be received by the words of a man not understood, then by the indistinct voice of an unreasonable creature. But suppose the words be such as in themselves are intelligible, being English words to an English man, yet if the sense and meaning of them be not conceived, they are to no better purpose then words of a strange and unknown language. Words have ⟨p. 333⟩