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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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2. Such as have renounced, not all the Articles ⟨p. 74⟩of the Christian Religion, but those only for which they were called in question. These fall not a toto, from the whole faith.
2. Such as have renounced, not all the Articles ⟨p. 74⟩of the Christian Religion, but those onely for which they were called in question. These fall not a toto, from the whole faith.
3. Such as fall animo resurgendi, with a mind and purpose to rise again, and to return to the Church again: and that upon the first opportunity of escape that they can get. These fall not in totum, with an utter, final desertion of the Church, at least in their intention.
3. Such as fall animo resurgendi, with a minde and purpose to rise againe, and to returne to the Church againe: and that upon the first opportunity of escape that they can get. These fall not in totum, with an utter, finall desertion of the Church, at least in their intention.
Every of these kinds of Apostasy, is indeed most heinous in the kind thereof: from yielding whereunto every Christian ought to be far: and more ready to endure the most bitter Martyrdom that ever any Christian did, then either in profession alone, or from any one fundamental Article of the true faith, or for any intended time to fall. For in every of these ways is God highly dishonoured, his Son our Saviour extremely under-valued, the glorious Gospel vilified, the profession thereof disgraced, weak brethren offended, and adversaries occasioned to triumph and insult.