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A01975	A 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	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1626 (1626)	STC 12117; ESTC S103286	303,522	370

a man to deuoure that which is consecrated Ezek. 48. 14. The first fruites of the Lord might not be sold exchanged or alienated because they were holy to the Lord consecrated to him 5. Lawfull oathes Mat. 5. 33. These must be kept though they bee made to a mans hurt Psal 15. 4. 6. The bond of mariage Mat. 19. 6. Hereof it is said What God hath ioyned together let no man put asunder 2. Other things by custome become immutable as 1. Euill practises Ier. 13. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do euill 2. Ciuill ordinances Mat. 27. 15. At the Passeouer the Gouernour was wont to release vnto the people a prisoner whom they would thereupon it is said Of necessitie he must deliuer one to them Luke 23. 17. 3. Sundry things are made immutable by speciall supportance as 1. Coelestiall spirits Eph. 1. 10. These are the things in heauen which are said to be gathered together in Christ by whom they are confirmed and established 2. The Church militant Mat. 16. 18. For the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it Psal 125. 1. 3. Particular Saints Rom. 11. 29. They that trust in the Lord shall bee as mount Sion which cannot be remoued but abideth for euer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●●smodi sunt vt eorum ipsum 〈◊〉 non possit 〈◊〉 〈…〉 4. The gifts and calling of God These are without repentance Such as God neuer repenteth the bestowing of them On this ground the Apostle thus saith of such as were called and made partakers of the gift of God Phil. 1. ● I am confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good worke in you will performe it vntill the day of Iesus Christ 4. There are many things which haue an immutable nature giuen them so as according to that course which God hath appointed they cannot be altered as 1. Sundry natiue properties Ier. 13. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin Mat. 5. 36. or the Leopard his spots Thou canst not neake one haire white or beatke 2. The earth and the mountaines thereon Eccl. 1. 4. These abide for euer Psal 125. 1. 3. Seasons and intercourse of times Gen. 8. 22. While the earth remaineth seed-time and haruest and cold and heate and summer and winter Ier. 33. 20. and day and night shall not cease Thus saith the Lord If ye can breake my couenant of the day and my couenant of the night and that there should not be day or night in their season Then c. Here the immutable entercourse of those seasons is set downe as an vndeniable principle 4. The visible heauens and the host thereof Ier. 31. 35. The Lord giueth the Sunne for a light by day and the ordinances of the Moone and of the Starres for a light by night namely so to abide without alteration 5. The highest heauen and all therein Mat. 6. 20. There neither moath nor rust corrupt nor theeues breake through nor steale 5. Some things are essentially in themselues immutable and so immutable as it is impossible they should be changed as 1. God himselfe Mal. 3. 6. Iam. 1. 17. 2. Gods counsell Psal 33. 11. Heb. 6. 17. 3. Gods Law Luke 16. 17. 4. Gods oath Psal 110. 4. Isa 45. 23. 5. Gods couenants Ier. 33. 20 21. 6. Gods promises Heb. 6. 13 18. 7. Euery word of God Num. 23. 19. 8. Gods loue Ier. 31. 3. As God himselfe is so are the things which are essentiall to him and come out of him as those which are before mentioned and others like vnto them immutable inuiolable §. 227. Of the difference betwixt the immutabilitie of the Creator and creatures Q. WHerein lyeth the difference betwix● the immutability of the Creator and of the creaturcs A. 1. God hath his stabilitie of himselfe which is euident by this stile which God giueth to himselfe I AM THAT I AM. Exod 3. 14. Creatures haue all that stabilitie which they haue of God Ier. 31. 35. The Lord giueth the ordinances of the Moone and of the Starres hee hath appointed them the courses which they keepe so constantly Prou. 3 19. He hath founded the earth and established the heauens 2. It is simply and absolutely impossible that Gods stabilitie should be altered Heb. 6. 18. But the most stedfast stabilitie of the creatures may be altered Iude ver 6. Some of the Angles kept not their first estate The Lord remoueth the mountaines and ouer turneth them in his anger Iob 9. 5 6 7. He shaketh the earth out of her place and maketh the pillars thereof tremble He commandeth the Sunne and it riseth not c. In Ioshuahs time the Sunne stood still Ios 10. 13. In Hezekiahs time it runne backe Though many creatures neuer were nor shall be changed 2. King 20. 11. as the good Angell yet is it not simply impossible that they should be changed Hee that made them can destroy them If God in Christ had not confirmed them but should leaue them to themselues there might be feare of their falling 3. God remaineth immutable by himselfe Mal. 3. 6. I am Iehouah saith the Lord I change not Because hee is Iehouah of himselfe by himselfe therefore he changeth not But the creatures are supported by God and kept stable and vnchangeable by his prouidence As the Lord first appointed them their firme and stable course so that they may the better keepe it he putteth vnder the hand of his diuine prouidence to support them Col. 1. 17. By him all things consist The immutabilitie therefore which is in any creature is wholy at Gods disposing either to confirme or alter it So as immutabilitie properly taken is proper to God §. 228. Of the duties which arise from Gods immutabilitie Q. TO what duties are we bound by reason of Gods immutabilitie A. 1. To put difference betwixt the Creator and creatures as the Psalmist did where in opposition betwixt the Creator and creatures he saith Psal 102. 26. They shall perish but thou shalt endure c. 2. To respect God as Saints in former times haue done He is the same God now that euer he was Why then should he not be accordingly esteemed b Mal. 3. 4 5. 6. This argument taken from Gods immutabilitie doth God himselfe vse to prouoke to pietie to reclaime them from all impietie c 2. Chro. 17. 3. 4. True Saints haue also hereby bene moued to carrie themselues towards God 29. 2. as their fathers of old haue done 34. 2 3. 3. To trust in the Lord. Psal 125. 1 2. As the mountaines round about Ierusalem stand vnmoueable for the defence and saferie thereof So the Lord is round about his people for euer 4. To beleeue Gods word and promise Sarah beleeued Gods word

all one A great priuiledge this will appeare to be if the benefit of Prayer be rightly discerned And a great comfort it must needs be to such weake ones as cannot pray as they desire The priuiledge of the Communion of Saints in nothing more appeares then in the mutuall participation of one anothers prayers Q. May not God be called vpon in the singular number thus My Father A. A Saint may say to God my Father Yes in priuate by one alone he may so did Christ Saint Paul also did in such a manner giue thanks vnto God Yea thus we are directed by the Prophet to call vpon God Math. 26. 39. and to say My Father Phil. 1. 3. Yet may not one so apply in particular Gods Fatherhood to himselfe ler. 3. 4 19. as to appropriate it to himselfe nor yet to be vnmindfull of others in his prayers contrary to the scope of expressing this relation in the plurall number OVR This forme is not set downe to binde vs so strictly to the words or syllables as neuer to swerue from them but it is set downe rather to teach vs what to aime at in the manner and matter of our prayers Q. May this forme Our Father be vsed by one alone A. One alone in Prayer may say Ou● Father Yes So did Daniel euen then when also being alone he vsed the singular number O our God saith he heare the Prayer of thy seruant Dan. 9. 17 18. And in the next clause ô my God encline thine eare In regard of that particular affiance which he had in God he saith my God and in regard of his respect euen when he was alone to other children of God he saith Our God For our loue to the brethren and our perswasion of their vnion in Christ must be manifested to God when we are alone as well as in companie Thus much of Gods Goodnesse It remaineth to speake of his greatnesse §. 16. Of Gods being in heauen Q. HOw is Gods greatnesse set forth A. By his mansion place which is in heauen A mansion place is an vsuall meanes of greatnesse or meanesse When we see a little thatcht ruinous cottage we imagine that he is a poore meane person that dwelleth there Thus Eliphas setteth out the basenesse of men Iob 4. 19. who dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust But if we see a faire and stately Pallace we thinke that he is a great personage that inhabiteth there Great Nebuchadnezzar did thus set out his owne greatnesse Dan. 4. 30. Is not this great Babylon that I haue built for the house of the kingdome and for the honour of my maiestie Yea if beggars see but a faire porch before the doore of an house they conceit that one which can spare them something there abideth To our capacitie therefore the Lord who dwelleth in the light that no creature can approach vnto is pleased thus to set forth his greatnesse 1. Tim. 6. 16. glorie and magnificence Many do so peruert this description of Gods greatnesse as thereby they much impeach the excellencie of his Maiestie For 1. God is not circumscribed in heauen Some thence inferre that God may be circumscribed and compassed in a place which is contrary to his infinite greatnesse Ier. 23. 23. by reason whereof he is said to fill heauen and earth to haue the heauen for his throne Math 5. 34 35. and the earth for his foot-stoole to be euery where Psal 139. 7 c. so as none can withdraw themselues from his presence 1. King 8. 27. yea to be so incomprehensible as the heauen and heauen of heauens cannot containe him 2. Heauen hinders not Gods sight Others thence inferre that he is so high as he cannot see the things below Iob 22. 12 13 14 which Eliphas noteth to be the mind of the prophane in his time who say Is not God in the height of heauen How doth God know Can he iudge through the darke cloud Thicke clouds are a couering to him that he seeth not and he walketh in the circuit of heauen But this conceipt is directly contrary to that omniscience and perfect sight of God which the holy Ghost thus setteth out Psal 102. 19. Out of heauen doth the Lord behold the earth Prou. 15. 3. The eyes of the Lord are in euery place beholding the euill and the good Heb. 4. 13. There is not any creature that is not manifest in his sight Gods prouidence on things below c. 2. Others thence inferre that thought it be granted that God seeth the earth all things done thereon yet he ordereth them not Apud Cicer. lib. 5 de Nat. Deorum Cotta negat Deū curare singulos homines aut ciuitates aut nationes which was the conceipt of many Philosophers A conceipt directly contrary to that excellent discourse which God himselfe had with Iob and to the euidences of Gods prouidence extending it selfe to the smallest things as to all kinde of creatures euen to little sparrowes to the haires of our head and to the grasse of the field Iob 38. 39. 40. 41. But to let passe all such false erroneous absurd and blasphemous collections Math. 10. 29 30. 6. 30. know that this placing of God in heauen is not properly God said to be in heauen but comparatiuely and respectiuely to bee taken and that to giue vs occasion to conceiue something of Gods excellencie 1. To make our soules soare vp which is in truth vnconceiueable and incomprehensible Q. Why is God thus set forth Cum deum dicit esse in coelis à terris abducit ornatem c. Chrys Hom. 20. in Mat. 6. A. 1. To make our soules ascend as high as possibly can be when we pray vnto him Aboue heauen our thoughts cannot ascend Therefore he is said to be in heauen which is the highest place of all Psal 123 1. I lift vp mine eyes to thee who dwellest in heauen saith the Psalmist 2. To distinguish God from earthly parents 2. To put difference betweene God and earthly parents and to shew that he is farre more excellent then they euen as heauen is higher then the earth and things in heauen more excellent then things on earth No Kings or Monarchs though they should rule from one end of the earth to the other can be like to our Father which is in heauen Psal 113. 5. Who is like to the Lord our God who dwelleth on high 3. To shew that he is free from all earthly infirmities 3. To shew Gods immutabilitie and from that changeablenesse whereunto things on earth are subiect In heauen there is no corruption dim●uution or alteration Much lesse can there be any such thing in him who is the chiefest of all in heauen Iam. 1. 17. and with whom is no variablenesse nor shadow of turning 4. To set him