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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.
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1. Petition.
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2. Thanksgiving.1
2. Thanksgiuing.1
- 1S. August. sometimes and some other ancient Writers, and most of the Papists, and some of our later Dimness divide the Lords Prayer into seven Petitions: making two Petitions of the two clauses in the last Petition. But the usual division of it into twice three, is the most naturel, & it is observed by Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, Cyril, Chryso•tame, Bernard, and other ancient Fathers, who though they do not express any distinct number of Petitions, yet they so handle them, as the number of six• may easily be thence gathered. For they make but one Petition of these words, Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. The modern Orthodox Expositors of Scripture, do most of them expressly set down the distinct number of six Petitions. * As for that argument which is taken from the correspondency of the number of Petitions to the seven graces of the Spirit, it is but an idle conceit. For there are many more graces of the Spirit then seven. Of the diviision of the last Petition out of which they raise the seventh▪ See §. 269.S. August. sometimes and some other ancient Writers, and most of the Papists, and some of our later Dimnes deuide the Lords Prayer into seuen Petitions: making two Petitions of the two clauses in the last Petition. But the vsuall diuision of it into twice three, is the most naturel, & it is obserued by Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, Cyril, Chryso•tame, Bernard, and other ancient Fathers, who though they doe not expresse any distinct number of Petitions, yet they so handle them, as the number of six• may easily be thence gathered. For they make but one Petition of these words, Leade vs not into temptation, but deliuer vs from euill. The moderne Orthodox Expositors of Scripture, doe most of them expressely set downe the distinct number of sixe Petitions. * As for that argument which is taken from the correspondencie of the number of Petitions to the seuen graces of the Spirit, it is but an idle conceit. For there are many more graces of the Spirit then seuen. Of the diuiision of the last Petition out of which they raise the seuenth See §. 269.