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A recovery from apostasy Set out in a sermon preached in Stepney Church near…A recovery from apostacy Set out in a sermon preached in Stepny Church neere…
A recovery from apostasy Set out in a sermon preached in Stepney Church near London at the receiving of a penitent renegado into the Church, Octob. 21. 1638. By William Gouge D.D. and min. in Black-Friars London Herein is the history of the surprisal and admirable escape of the said penitent.A recovery from apostacy Set out in a sermon preached in Stepny Church neere London at the receiving of a penitent renegado into the Church, Octob. 21. 1638. By William Gouge D.D. and min. in Black-Friers London Herein is the history of the surprizall and admirable escape of the said penitent.
London: printed by George Miller for Joshua Kirton, 1639London: printed by George Miller for Ioshua Kirton, 1639
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An advertisement to the Reader.
Courteous Reader,
The ensuing Sermon is by the Author himself published,1 to prevent the publishing of other copies taken at the Preaching thereof by such as have skill of Brachygraphy or short-writing; of whom some attempted in the Authors name to publish their own notes. Many have been much wronged hereby: and that by the Short-writers omissions, additions, mis-placings, mistakings. If several Works of one and the same Author (but some published by himself, and others by an Exceptor) be compared together, they will easily be found in matter and manner as different, as Works of different Authors. I have heard living Authors much complain hereof. The wrong done to […] deceased is the greater, because no ⟨image 3⟩redress can be made thereof. Had this Sermon been published by any [Greek or Hebrew] swift-writer, all the particulars of those tortures which Martyrs endured, and of their courage in enduring the same and many amplifications of sundry general heads then in concise sums only uttered, must needs have been left out of this Treatise. For the Author having ever accustomed himself to be observant of the time usually set a part for a Sermon, choosing rather to leave an appetite in his Auditory, then to glut them, did forbear to deliver such testimonies of Martyrs sufferings, and undaunted resolutions as he had in writing before him; and withal, when he espied the time to slip away apace, he contracted his matter, and summarily delivered, especially in the latter part of his Sermon, the points that are now more fully set down.
THe ensuing Sermon is by the Author himselfe published,