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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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LUKE 15.31. [Greek or Hebrew]. He was lost, and is found.
LVKE 15.31. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. He was lost, and is found.
A Text the more pertinent it is to the point in hand,1 the more profitable it is like to be in the handling thereof; wherefore that you may the better discern how pertinent this Text is for this present Assembly, I will as distinctly and succinctly as I can relate the special occasion thereof.
A Text the more pertinent it is to the point in hand,1 the more profitable it is like to be in the handling thereof; wherefore that you may the better discerne how pertinent this Text is for this present Assembly, I will as distinctly and succinctly as I can relate the speciall occasion thereof.
- 1Quo magis accommodus, eo magis commodes.Quo magis accommodus, eo magis commod•s.
1This Penitent here before you, Vincent Jukes by name, is an English man, borne in Shropshire, and in the seventeenth year of his age was bound apprentice to a Cooke in Ratlife of this Parish. After two years service, his master set him forth to Sea in a Cooks place in the Adventure for Greenland. Thither they had a prosperous voyage, and returned safe within five months.