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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
lTheir tongues were cut out by the roots, and pulled out of their jaws.
lTheir tongues were cut out by the rootes, and puld out of their jawes.
nTheir bodies were rent and pulled to pieces by strong boughs, ⟨p. 31⟩forced together by instruments, and let loose when the limbs of the bodies of Martyrs were tied fast unto them. Their limbs were also pulled to pieces with wild horses.
nTheir bodies were rent and pulled to peeces by strong boughs, ⟨p. 31⟩forced together by instruments, and let loose when the limbs of the bodies of Martyrs were tied fast unto them. Their limbs were also pull'd to peeces with wild horses.
qThey were burnt with fire.
vvThey were fried in red hot iron chairs, as in a frying pan, which annoyed the standers by with a stanch.
vvThey were fried in red hot ieron chaires, as in a frying pan, which annoied the standers bie with a stanch.
zA persecuting tyrant considering the nature of the country, that it was terribly cold, and the time of the year, that it was winter: and a night wherein the cold extremely increased, and that the northwind then blew there: commanded forty Christians to be set stark naked under the open air in the midst of the City, to freeze to death. Then when they heard that charge, with joy casting away even their innermost vestment, they went on to their death by cold.
zA persecuting tyrant considering the nature of the countrey, that it was terribly cold, and the time of the yeare, that it was winter: and a night wherein the cold extremely increased, and that the northwind then blew there: commanded forty Christians to be set stark naked under the open aire in the midst of the City, to freeze to death. Then when they heard that charge, with joy casting away even their innermost vestmēt, they went on to their death by cold.
