A01975:2502
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. To speak audibly, so as they which are to say Amen, may hear what is said.1 The Levites under the Law were expressly enjoined to speak to the people with a loud voice. Accordingly the Levites that were the mouth of the people to God, and prayed in their presence,2 cried with a loud voice unto the Lord their God. Be a prayer made as intelligibly as may be, if it be not heard of them that are present, they cannot with assent, desire, and faith say Amen.
2. To sprake audibly, so as they which are to say Amen, may heare what is said.1 The Leuites vnder the Law were expressely enioyned to speake to the people with a lowd voice. Accordingly the Leuites that were the mouth of the people to God, and prayed in their presence,2 cryed with a loud voice vnto the Lord their God. Be a prayer made as intelligibly as may be, if it bee not heard of them that are present, they cannot with assent, desire, and faith say Amen.
3. To speak distinctly: that is, so treatably as hearers may observe every Petition, and every particular point for which thanks is given. It is expressly noted of such as instructed the people of God that they did it distinctly: 1whereby the hearers better understood what was delivered. If Prayer or Thanksgiving be uttered by a voluble, swift tongue, too fast, hearers cannot advisedly observe the several branches thereof: so as if they say AMEN, at the best, it cannot be but to some parts: it cannot be to all the prayer, or praise that is uttered.