A01975:803
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. We ought oft and seriously to meditate on the excellency of Gods will, 1to draw our hearts the more to it. Whose heart was ever more set upon Gods will to do it theng Davids? and who did moreh meditate on the excellency thereof, then he? It was his meditation day and night. The manyi excellent properties and effects which he doth attribute thereto: and the many ksweet and precious things to which he doth prefer it, do show how excellent he accounted it to be.
3. We ought oft and seriously to meditate on the excellencie of Gods will, 1to draw our hearts the more to it. Whose heart was euer more set vpon Gods will to do it theng Dauids? and who did moreh meditate on the excellencie thereof, then he? It was his meditation day and night. The manyi excellent properties and effects which he doth attribute thereto: and the many ksweete and pretious things to which he doth preferre it, do shew how excellent he accounted it to be.
- 13. Meditate on Gods word.
- gPsal▪ 119. 5, 20.
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