A01975:894
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.
Q. OF whom are we taught to ask bread?
Q. OF whom are we taught to aske bread?
A. Of our Father which is in heaven. For all the Petitions of this Prayer are directed to him.
A. Of our Father which is in heauen. For all the Petitions of this Prayer are directed to him.
Q. What is thence to be gathered?
A,a The Lord in heaven is the disposer of all things on earth. Forb he is the possessor of heaven and earth. c The earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof. He therefore giveth the earth and the things thereof to whom he will. We neither have them of our selves, nor can have them of any other but of God. Whatsoever the means of getting them be, they are but the hands of Gods providence, whereby he giveth us what we have.