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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.
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.
Such an Author is the inditer of this Prayer,1 and such a Work is the Prayer it self. This title, The Lords Prayer, implieth as much. The Lord is the Author. Prayer the Work.
Such an Author is the indighter of this Prayer,1 and such a Worke is the Prayer it selfe. This title, The Lords Prayer, implyeth as much. The Lord is the Author. Prayer the Worke.
- 1The excellency of the Lords Prayer.