A01975:886
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. 1. That which very nature requireth: as meat and drink to feed the body, and clothing to keep it warm: ewithout these the body cannot but pine away and perish.
A. 1. That which very nature requireth: as meate and drinke to feed the body, and cloathing to keepe it warme: ewithout these the body cannot but pine away and perish.
2. That which is meet for the estate wherein God hath set us: as fit instruments for Artificers: books for scholars: ammunition for Captains, and other Soldiers: yea also for public persons, and for men of great birth, place, and dignity, such sufficiency as is fit for the same. Thus much the Wise-man intendeth under this phrasef Give me not poverty. A man may have to sustain nature, and yet be poor.
2. That which is meet for the estate wherein God hath set vs: as fit instruments for Artificers: bookes for schollers: amunition for Captains, and other Souldiers: yea also for publike persons, and for men of great birth, place, and dignitie, such sufficiencie as is fit for the same. Thus much the Wise-man intendeth vnder this phrasef Gine me not pouertie. A man may haue to sustaine nature, and yet be poore.