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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.
Q. Who are comprised under this phrase in heaven?
Q. VVHo are comprised vnder this phrase in heauen?
A. The glorious Angels and glorified Saints with Christ their head.
Some think the middle heaven to be here meant, where the Sun, Moon, and other Stars are placed: and that partly because the creatures in that heaven do constantly keep that course wherein by the will of their Creator they were at first placed; and partly because they are visible, so as that constant course of theirs according to the will of God, may be seen by men on earth. But howsoever that constancy of theirs may be a witness against our manifold aberrations, and swervings from that course wherein our Creator hath set us: yet in that they have no understanding to take notice of the will of God, nor do what they do by any free,