A01975:757
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.
3. Strength of Memory to hold fast Gods Word, and that in the good directions and sweet consolations, in the precepts and promises thereof.1 Where the Psalmist saith, that the mercy of the Lord is upon those that remember his commandments, to do them, Doth he not imply that to remember Gods Word, is an especial help to the doing of it. Things not remembered are as not known. The Apostle noteth this to be the cause of the Hebrews fainting in their troubles,2 that they forgot the direction and consolation of the Word.
3. Strength of Memory to hold fast Gods Word, and that in the good directions and sweet consolations, in the precepts and promises thereof.1 Where the Psalmist saith, that the mercy of the Lord is vpon those that remember his commandements, to doe them, Doth he not imply that to remember Gods Word, is an especiall helpe to the doing of it. Things not remembred are as not knowne. The Apostle noteth this to be the cause of the Hebrewes fainting in their troubles,2 that they forgate the direction and consolation of the Word.
4. Life of Conscience, both to cheer us up in doing the will of God, and also to check us when we swerve from the same, and not to suffer us to be quiet till we turn to it again. For these are the proper functions of a conscience quickened and sanctified. The Apostle noteth that they who give themselves over to transgress,