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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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6. Temporal life is not a valuable consideration for the loss of the soul. For what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Math. 16.26.
6. Temporall life is not a valuable consideration for the losse of the soule. For what shall a man give in exchange for his soule? Math. 16.26.
If it be said that life being preserved,1 an Apostate may find opportunity of escaping out of persecutors hands, and so repent, and return unto the Church, and glorify God: as a soldier by flying in time of danger, may again return into the field, and get the day: I answer that
If it be said that life being preserved,1 an Apostate may finde opportunity of escaping out of persecutors hands, and so repent, and returne unto the Church, and glorifie God: as a souldier by flying in time of danger, may againe returne into the field, and get the day: I answer that
- 1Pretence of future repentance a vain pretence for preserving life.Pretence of future re•e•tance a vaine pretence for preserving life.