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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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1Be wise now therefore all ye that may be brought to the trial of cruel mockings and scourgings. yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment, and of all manner of tortures: be well instructed in the difference betwixt such things as man can inflict upon the body, and such as God can inflict on body and soul: that ye be not worse then the foolish fish, which leap out of the warm water into the flaming fire. Such are they, who to escape the hands of mortal men, fall into the hands of the living God, not considering the weight of that which the Apostle ⟨p. 29⟩saith (Heb. 10.31.) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
1Be wise now therefore all yee that may be brought to the triall of cruell mockings and scourgings. yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment, and of all manner of tortures: be well instructed in the difference betwixt such things as man can inflict upon the body, and such as God can inflict on body and soule: that yee be not worse then the foolish fish, which leape out of the warme water into the flaming fire. Such are they, who to escape the hands of mortall men, fall into the hands of the living God, not considering the weight of that which the Apostle ⟨p. 29⟩saith (Heb. 10.31.) It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- 1God to be feared more then man. Heb. 11.35, 36.
The fears which usually most affright men, and draw them to be Renegadoes are but of such things which the Apostle (