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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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1. There is non causa pro causa: the cause is grossly misapplied. For they make Gods grace a cause of committing sin, whereas the Apostle produceth it as the cause of remitting and removing sin.
1. There is non causa pro causa: the cause is grossely misapplied. For they make Gods grace a cause of committing sin, whereas the Apostle produceth it as the cause of remitting and removing sinne.
2. There is non subjectum pro subjecto: the subject matter, or thing whereupon Gods grace exerciseth it self is mischievously mislaid. For they make sins to come, or a resolved purpose to continue in sin the subject of abundant grace, whereas the Apostle intendeth sins past which can not be recalled: and thereupon ⟨p. 43⟩if they be not through grace remitted, the sinner that hath committed them is most miserable.
2. There is non subjectum pro subjecto: the subject matter, or thing whereupon Gods grace exerciseth it selfe is mischievously mislaid. For they make sinnes to come, or a resolved purpose to con•inue in sinne the subject of abundant grace, whereas the Apostle intendeth sinnes past which can not be recalled: and thereupon ⟨p. 43⟩if they bee not through grace remitted, the sinner that hath committed them is most miserable.
3. There is non objectum pro objecto; the kind of sinner, who is made the object on whom abundant grace is conferred, is wretchedly mistaken. For they take the Apostle to speak of such as delight in sin, and retain a purpose of living and lying in sin: whereas he meaneth such as find and feel themselves to be sinners through sense of the heavy load of sin pressing sore upon them: even such sinners as Christ came to call to repentance,