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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.
Object. This is to pray for the dead.
Obiect. This is to pray for the dead.
Answ. Not for this or that particular friend departed whose estate we certainly know not:1 but in general for all the true members of Christs celestial body: nor to obtain that for them which was to be obtained in the times of their life, remission of sins: nor yet to alter their final estate, the doom whereof passed upon them at the moment of their dissolution: but only as their resurrection is a degree to the perfecting of the kingdom of Glory, we being taught to pray for the full perfection of that kingdom, pray indefinitely for the resurrection of the Saints which is a degree thereto.
Answ. Not for this or that particular friend departed whose estate we certainly know not:1 but in generall for all the true members of Christs celestiall bodie: nor to obtaine that for them which was to be obtained in the times of their life, remission of sinnes: nor yet to alter their finall estate, the doome whereof passed vpon them at the moment of their dissolution: but onely as their resurrection is a degree to the perfecting of the kingdome of Glorie, we being taught to pray for the full perfection of that kingdome, pray indefinitely for the resurrection of the Saints which is a degree thereto.
- 1How prayers to be made, or not to be made for the dead.
7. That Christ would come in his glory to judgement: