A01975:2491
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.
Ob. AMEN is an Hebrew word: that language is understood of very few: why then is it used of all Nations, of all people in all Nations, learned and unlearned?
Ob. AMEN is an Hebrew word: that language is vnderstood of very few: why then is it vsed of all Nations, of all people in all Nations, learned and vnlearned?
A. qThe Apostles, though they spake,2 and wrote not in Hebrew, but in Greek, yet they used this Hebrew word: so as we have an express warrant for retaining this word in another language.
A. qThe Apostles, though they spake,2 and wrote not in Hebrew, but in Greeke, yet they vsed this Hebrew word: so as we haue an expresse warrant for retaining this word in another language.
- qRom. 1. 15.
- 2Why Amen is used of all sorts.Why Amen is vsed of all sorts.
2. Continual use hath made it familiar to all persons, of all languages, in all nations. So as it is every where as a proper vulgar, mother word. Thus these two Titles Jesus Christ, though the one be Hebrew, and the other Greek, are made so familiar, as in all languages they are retained.