A01975:268
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.
That the titles applied to God are properly his Name, is evident by that answer which God himself gave to Moses, enquiring what he should say if the children of Israel should ask what the Name of that God that sent him, was. Gods answer was this,1 say, I AM hath sent me to you. By the forenamed titles is God distinguished from all creatures.
That the titles applyed to God are properly his Name, is euident by that answer which God himselfe gaue to Moses, enquiring what he should say if the children of Israel should aske what the Name of that God that sent him, was. Gods answer was this,1 say, I AM hath sent me to you. By the forenamed titles is God distinguished from all creatures.
- 1Exod. 3. 14. [Greek or Hebrew]Exod. 3. 14. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉
4.1 His Attributes. Of these some are incommunicable, so proper to God as in no respect they can be attributed to any creature: as eternity without beginning, simpleness without mixture, infiniteness filling all places, prescience, knowing all things before all times, immutability not subject to any change, all-sufficiency in himself, omnipotency and such like. When we hear any of these to be attributed to any, we may thereupon infer, surely that is God, or else they are falsely attributed. Other attributes are indeed communicable, and in some respects may be applied to creatures, as purity, wisdom, truth, justice, mercy, and others such like, yet in that they are originally, infinitely, unchangeably in God, they declare that God to be Jehovah, the supreme