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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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2. I• that high prize set upon life be taken in a fair and right sense, it must be applied ad idem, to matters of like kind. For a temporal life, all the temporal things that he hath, may be given: as (Mar. 5.26.) the woman which had an issue of blood, spent all that she had on Physicians, namely all her temporal estate. But the true faith is of another kind: the good of our souls, the present consolation, and future salvation of them, depends on a constant profession of the true faith. It is not in our power to part with it.
2. I• that high prize set upon life bee taken in a faire and right sence, it must be applied ad idem, to matters of like kind. For a temporall life, all the temporall things that he hath, may be given: as (Mar. 5.26.) the woeman which had an issue of blood, spent all that shee had on Physitions, namely all her temporall estate. But the true faith is of another kinde: the good of our soules, the present consolation, and future salvation of them, depends on a constant profession of the true faith. It is not in our power to part with it.
3. Life preserved by Apostasy is but a temporary life, a shadow, a vapour, a bubble, a breath: Soon gone, even before a man can think of parting with it. How long did Judas retain his life after his Apostasy? The rich fool had his soul taken away long before his account. For while he dreamed of many years, he heard this summons, This night thy soul shall be required of thee (Luk. 12.20.)
3. Life preserved by Apostacy is but a temporary life, a shadow, a vapour, a bubble, a breath: Soone gone, even before a man can thinke of parting with it. How long did Iudas retaine his life after his Apostacy? The rich foole had his soule taken away long before his account. For while he dreamed of many yeares, he heard this summons, This night thy soule shall be required of thee (