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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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I suppose greater and crueller tortures cannot in these days be by mans wit invented,1 then were of old inflicted by spiteful persecutors on the Jews in the days of Antiochus, and on Christians in the time of the ten notorious persecutions under the Roman Emperors.
I suppose greater and crueller tortures cannot in these daies be by mans wit invented,1 then were of old inflicted by spitefull persecutors on the Iewes in the daies of Antiochus, and on Christians in the time of the ten notorious persecutions under the Romane Emperours.
- 1What tortures Martyrs en•ured. Maccab. 6.9, 10 & 7.1, 2, &c.
bSo cruel was the sight of those tortures which persecutors inflicted, as exceeds all expression.
bSo cruell was the sight of those tortures which persecutors inflicted, as exceeds all expression.
- bErat spectaculum eorum quae fiebant ita crudele, ut omnem narrationem superet. Euseb. Eccles. Hist l. 8. c. 6.