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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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1Such an one also was Julian styled the Apostate: of whom it is reported that suddenly he did so openly and impudently renounce his faith in Christ, as with certain Sacrifices ⟨p. 72⟩and enchantments, and a bloody offering he washed away the Baptism received of Christians: and renounced his admittance into the Church: and from that time used privately and publicly killings and quarterings of beasts and other superstitious rites of the Gentiles. This mind of Julian, then Emperor, about the solemnities of the Gentiles, did not a little trouble and astonish Christians, especially because he had been a Christian before. For, as one addicted to his fathers ▪ (which was the Christian) religion, he was of a child trained up according to the custom of the Church, and instructed in the sacred Scriptures and brought up under Bishops and ecclesiastical persons.
1Such an one allso was Iulian stiled the Apostate: of whom it is reported that suddenly he did so openly and impudently renounce his faith in Christ, as with certaine Sacrifices ⟨p. 72⟩and inchantments, and a bloody offering he washed away the Baptisme received of Christians: and renoūced his admittance into the Church: and from that time used privately and publickly killings and quarterings of beasts and other superstitious rites of the Gentiles. This mind of Julian, then Emperour, about the solenmities of the Gentiles, did not a little trouble and astonish Christians, especially because he had beene a Christian before. For, as one addicted to his fathers ▪ (which was the Christian) religion, he was of a child trained up according to the custom of the Church, and instructed in the sacred Scriptures and brought up under Bishops and ecclesiasticall persons.
- 1Fertur Julianum fidem in Christum confestim adeo manifest, & impudenter abnegasse, ut sacrific ijs quibusdam, & invocationibus, & victimae cruenta baptismum a nostris acceptum, abluerit: & initiationi ecclesiasticae renunciarit: & ex eo tempore lavationibus, victimis & alijs quaecunque gentilium superstitio exposcit, & privatim & publicè usus est. Christianos, studium Imperatoris circa sacra gentilium non medocriter contristavit, attonitosque reddidit: praesertim ob id, quòd antea Christianus fuisset. Etenim tanquam religiosus erga paternam religionem, a puero secundum ecclesioe consuetudinem initiatus, inque sacris Scripturis institutus, ac sub episcopis, & viris ecclesiasticis enutritus fuerat. Sozom. Eccl. Hist. l. 5. c. 2.