A01975:766
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.
4. Mortification of the flesh. 1For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, so that we cannot do the things that we would. When we would do the will of God,2 yea, and delight in the Law of God after the inner man, we shall find the flesh warring against that Law of the mind, and bringing us into captivity ⟨p. 88⟩to the law of sin. This made Saint Paul with so bitter an exclamation to say, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death!
4. Mortification of the flesh. 1For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, so that wee cannot doe the things that we would. When we would doe the will of God,2 yea, and delight in the Law of God after the inner man, wee shall finde the flesh warring against that Law of the minde, and bringing vs into captiuitie ⟨p. 88⟩to the law of sinne. This made Saint Paul with so bitter an exclamation to say, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliuer me from the body of this death!
- 1Gal. 5. 17.
- 2Rom. 7. 28, &c.
Q. What desire we in regard of the extent of the fore-named Rule? (be done.)
Q. What desire wee in regard of the extent of the fore-named Rule? (be done.)