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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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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. *The year following he was set forth again (as before) for Genoway. In this voyage they were set upon by Turkish pirates, and after a dangerous sight, wherein seven were slain and about twenty more wounded and maimed, he with three and thirty more were carried to Argier, where, within four days after their arrival, they were sold for slaves in the Market place. Of that company many died, four were ransomed, and seven there still abide in slavery. It is a custom there that their King have his choice of every eighth person to be sold. And it so fell out that