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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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cSuch as were stifled in prison they cast to dogs, setting watchmen night and day, lest any of them should be buried: and such remainders as were left both of beasts and fire, in part torn, and in part burnt, together with the heads & bodies of others they cast out in like manner unburied, and committed them for some days to the custody of soldiers.
cSuch as were stifled in prison they cast to dogs, setting watchmen night and day, lest any of them should be buried: and such remainders as were left both of beasts and fire, in part torne, and in part burnt, together with the heads & bodies of others they cast out in like manner unburied, and committed them for some daies to the custodie of souldiers.
- cEos qui in carcere suffocabantur canibus rojecerunt, adhibitis nocte dieque custodibus ne quisquam eorum sepeliretur: prolatisque reliquijs cum▪ a bestijs, tum ab igne relictis, ac partim laceratis, partim adustis, deinde & reliquorum capitibus unà cum truncis pariformiter inhumatis complures dies militaris curae custodiam deputarunt. Haec & alia tormentorum genera memorantur a Basilio Concionibus in S. Martyrs. Prudent. in Hymnis de Coron. Mart. Euseb. Eccles. Hist. l. 5. c. 1. & l. 8. c. 6, 7. &c. Niceph. l. 7. c. 11, 12.Eos qui in carcere suffocabantur canibus rojecerunt, adhibitis nocte dieque custodibus ne quisquam eorum sepeliretur: prolatisque reliquijs cum▪ a bestijs, tum ab igne relictis, ac partim laceratis, partim adustis, deinde & reliquorum capitibus unà cum truncis pariformiter inhumatis complures dies militaris curae custodiam deputarunt. Haec & alia tormentorum genera memorantur a Basilio Concionibus in S. Martyres. Prudent. in Hymnis de Coron. Mart. Euseb. Eccles. Hist. l. 5. c. 1. & l. 8. c. 6, 7. &c. Niceph. l. 7. c. 11, 12.
Thus the barbarous cruelty of persecutors extended it self as far as it could, even beyond the temporal lives of Martyrs.