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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.
2. Those heavenly Spirits do many things which they would not but for the will of God. When it is the will of God, the Angels do willingly descend from heaven to earth, 1sometimes to bring glad tidings to the Church,2 and sometimes to execute vengeance on sinners. Yea the souls of the Saints which have been taken out of their bodies & carried into Abraham's bosom, that place of joy and bliss, have been contented at the will of God to leave their glory,m and to return again into their bodies, even asn Christ came down from heaven, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him: and as his soulo after it had been in Paradisep returned into his body in earth. Now heaven, Paradise, and Abraham's bosom is a place of such glory, and so conspicuously doth the brightness of Gods glory there shine forth, as the celestial spirits would never be willing to depart out of it, but to do the will of their Lord.
2. Those heauenly Spirits do many things which they would not but for the will of God. When it is the will of God, the Angels do willingly descend from heauen to earth, 1sometimes to bring glad tidings to the Church,2 and sometimes to execute vengeance on sinners. Yea the soules of the Saints which haue bene taken out of their bodies & carried into Abrahams bosome, that place of ioy and blisse, haue bene contented at the will of God to leaue their glorie,m and to returne againe into their bodies, euen asn