A01975:77
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.
A. The preface prefixed before it, in these words, Our Father which are in heaven.
A. The preface prefixed before it, in these words, Our Father which are in heauen.
Q. What general instruction thence ariseth?
Q. What generall instruction thence ariseth?
A. Preparation is needful unto Prayer. For this Preface is purposely prefixed to fit and prepare our hearts to Prayer. To this very purpose tendeth this direction of the wise man, Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God. 1He there rendereth a weighty reason thereof, taken from Gods Eminency, God is in heaven, a most high and glorious God. Men do not rashly enter into the presence of a King on earth. They will,2 as Joseph did, change their raiment: yea they will think before hand both of the matter which they intend to move, and also of the manner of propounding their suite. Should we not much more come preparedly into the presence of the King of Kings?
A. Preparation is needfull vnto Prayer. For this Preface is purposely prefixed to fit and prepare our hearts to Prayer. To this very purpose tendeth this direction of the wise man, Bee not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart bee hasty to vtter any thing before God. 1He there rendereth a weighty reason thereof, taken from Gods Eminencie, God is in heauen, a most high and glorious God. Men doe not rashly enter into the presence of a King on earth. They will,