A01975:964
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. Why is this Petition for temporal blessings set before the Petitions for spiritual blessings?
Q. VVHy is this Petition for temporall blessings set before the Petitions for spirituall blessings?
A. Many good and weighty reasons may be given of this order, which will plainly show that the placing of this Petition before the two following is no sufficient argument, to prove that by BREAD Christ is here meant. Some of them are these.
A. Many good and weightie reasons may be giuen of this order, which will plainly shew that the placing of this Petition before the two following is no sufficient argument, to proue that by BREAD Christ is here meant. Some of them are these.
1. This is an express Petition for good, as the three former are: but the two last are deprecations from evil. It was therefore requisite that all the good things to be craved should be mentioned before the evils against which we pray.
1. This is an expresse Petition for good, as the three former are: but the two last are deprecations from euill. It was therefore requisite that all the good things to be craued should be mentioned before the euils against which we pray.