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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.
2. The placing of things temporal before spiritual.
2. The placing of things temporall before spirituall.
Q. What are we taught by that inference.
A. The end of this life is to glorify God. For being taught to pray for such things as tend to the glory of God, we are thereupon taught to pray for bread, that our life may be preserved to that end. Directly to this purpose the Psalmist thus prayeth,a Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee. This moved bHezekiah to pray for life when he had received the sentence of death, as may be gathered out of this reason, The grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. The living, the living he shall praise thee.
A. The end of this life is to glorifie God. For being taught to pray for such things as tend to the glorie of God, wee are thereupon taught to pray for bread, that our life may be preserued to that end. Directly to this purpose the Psalmist thus prayeth,a Let my soule liue, and it shall praise thee. This moued bHezekiah to pray for life when he had receiued the sentence of death, as may be gathered out of this reason, The graue cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. The liuing, the liuing he shall praise thee.
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