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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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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, Mat. 9.13.
3. There is non objectum pro objecto; the kinde of sinner, who is made the object on whom abundant grace is conferred, is wretchedly mistaken. For they take the Apostle to speake of such as delight in sinne, and retaine a purpose of living and lying in sinne: whereas he meaneth such as finde and feele themselves to be sinners through sence of the heavie loade of sinne pressing soare upon them: even such sinners as Christ came to call to repentance, Mat. 9.13.
Thus we see how pretence of returning to God afterwards is a most wicked pretence of denying God for the present.
Gods faithful Martyrs in all ages have made little or no account of their temporal life,1 when it came in competition with Christ, and a profession of the Christian faith.2 The Apostle giveth this testimony of them, they would not accept deliverance. He means deliverance from death or preservation of life: this, though offered they would not accept, namely on persecutors terms or conditions, which was to deny the truth of God, or renounce their faith in him.