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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
Petition 6 › Section 245: §. 245. Of setting AMEN in the last place.
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.
A. 1. To show the extent of it.
A. 1. To shew the extent of it.
2. To show the use of it.
2. To shew the vse of it.
For the extent of AMEN, It must be applied to the whole Prayer that goeth before it, and to every part and particle thereof. Therefore in reciting the particular curses of the Law, *AMEN was expressly added to every particular curse. Though so expressly by an audible voice it be not always added to every clause of every Prayer, yet the mind giving assent, and the heart inclining a desire, and mind and heart yielding faith to the whole and to every part, Amen, after all is uttered is a testification of as much. Thus then by saying AMEN when all the Lords Prayer is ended, we show that our assent, desire and faith is extended to praise, as well as to Petition: and, among Petitions, to such as tend to Gods glory, as our own good: and, of them which tend to his glory, to that which maketh to the prosperous increase of his Church, as well as to that whereby his Name is hallowed: yea and to that which tendeth to the doing of his will, and that in the manner of doing it, as it is done in heaven, as well as in the matter thereof: and among the Petitions that tend to our good, as well to them which concern our spiritual well-fare as to that which concerneth our temporal well-fare: and of those which promote our spiritual well-fare, as well to that whereby our sanctification is craved, as to that whereby we desire to be justified: and in that of our justification, of our profession of forgiving our debtors, as well as to our supplication for Gods discharge of our debts to him: and in that of our sanctification, both to preservation from Satan's assaults, and also to recover out of his snares, and full delivery from all evil: yea in every Petition to others good, as well as to our own. Were Amen placed in any other place then in the very end of a prayer, even after all is finished, it could not have so large an extent.