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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.
Two things also in the Matter or work it self do commend it 1. The perfection of it. 2. The profit that may be got by it.
Two things also in the Matter or worke it selfe do commend it 1. The perfection of it. 2. The profit that may be got by it.
If an Art be accurately handled, and so perfectly set out, as nothing can be found defective, and yet no superfluous redundancy therein, every good Student will be sure to have it, and will diligently study it. Or if a work that may bring much ⟨p. 2⟩profit to such as carefully use it, be published, he will be thought careless of his own good that useth it not.
If an Art be accuratly handled, and so perfectly set out, as nothing can be found defectiue, and yet no superfluous redundancie therein, euery good Student will be sure to haue it, and will diligently studie it. Or if a worke that may bring much ⟨p. 2⟩profit to such as carefully vse it, be published, hee will be thought carelesse of his owne good that vseth it not.
When all these meet together, an excellent Author and a worthy Work: an Author to respected for eminency of person, and excellency of parts: a work to be regarded for the absolute perfection of it in it self, and for the necessity and utility of it to us, they are as a fourfold twisted cord, to draw our minds thereto, and to bind them thereon.
When all these meet together, an excellent Author and a worthie Worke: an Author to respected for eminencie of person, and excellencie of parts: a worke to be regarded for the absolute perfection of it in it selfe, and for the necessitie and vtilitie of it to vs, they are as a fourefold twisted cord, to draw our minds thereto, and to binde them thereon.