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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.
3. To manifest that assent. 1The phrase of saying Amen, oft used in Scripture doth import a manifestation of assent. For that which is said and uttered, is manifested. This manifestation of assent on the hearers part, must be, as the uttering of the prayer on the Speakers part,2 audibly. Every hearer in an assembly must utter Amen, as loud as the Minister uttereth the prayer. In many places it is put off only to the Clerk. But herein all should be Clerks. There is mention made of a celestial sound, which was as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, 3and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Hallelu-jah. If full assemblies in our Churches did all of them audibly after a prayer say Amen, so audibly as the sound of every ones voice there present might come at least to the Ministers ears, it would be such a sound as is there mentioned, as heavenly sound: A sound well beseeming a Church. No Echo like to the Echo which maketh the walls of a Church to ring again with Amen. Such a sound would quicken a Ministers spirits, and put a kind of heavenly life into the people themselves.
3. To manifest that assent. 1The phrase of saying Amen, oft vsed in Scripture doth import a manifestation of assent. For that which is said and vttered, is manifested. This manifestation of assent on the hearers part, must bee, as the vttering of the prayer on the Speakers part,2 audibly. Euery hearer in an assembly must vtter Amen, as loud as the Minister vttereth the prayer. In many places it is put off onely to the Clerke. But herein all should bee Clearkes. There is mention made of a celestiall sound, which was as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, 3and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Hallelu-iah. If full assemblies in our Churches did all of them andibly after a prayer say Amen, so audibly as the sound of euery ones voice there present might come at least to the Ministers eares, it would be such a sound as is there mentioned, as heauenly sound: A sound well beseeming a Church. No Echo like to the Echo which maketh the wals of a Church to ring againe with Amen. Such a sound would quicken a Ministers spirits, and put a kinde of heauenly life into the people themselues.