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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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Who brought him to the place of execution, and there hung him upon a tree? Did any of the Governors soldiers? No: none but his own conscience.
Who brought him to the place of execution, and there hung him upon a tree? Did any of the Governours souldiers? No: none but his own conscience.
His conscience was his Accuser, Witness, Adversary, Jewry, Judge, Executioner.
His conscience was his Accuser, Witnesse, Adversary, Jewry, Judge, Executioner.
What the Poet said of envy, may be applied to a guilty conscience, —Siculi non invenere Tyranni1 Tormentum majus— Ne'er did the fiercest tyrant Invent a greater torment.
What the Poet said of envie, may be applied to a guilty conscience, —Siculi non invenere Tyranni1 Tormentum majus— Ne're did the fiercest tyrant Invent a greater torment.
- 1Horat Epist. l. 1. Ep. 2.