A01975:764
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. A right discerning of the vanity and corruption of the creatures will, especially when it is not agreeable to Gods, but swerveth from it.1 In this respect it is said, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are but vanity: 2and, He taketh the wise in their craftiness. If we could truly, and thoroughly discern as much, would we be so blockish as to prefer the will of any man before Gods?
2. A right discerning of the vanity and corruption of the creatures will, especially when it is not agreeable to Gods, but swerueth from it.1 In this respect it is said, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are but vanity: 2and, He taketh the wise in their craftinesse. If we could truely, and thorowly discerne as much, would wee be so blockish as to preferre the will of any man before Gods?
3. A denial of our own will: a point which the wise man much presseth,1 in these and such like prohibitions: Lean not to thine own understanding: Be not wise in thine own eyes. Seldom or never are self-conceited men brought to yield simple obedience to Gods will. They will be so inquisitive into the ground and reason thereof, that if they be not satisfied therein, their own will,