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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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The children of Israel in Egypt played the parts of Apostates, by the Idolatry which they committed (Ezek. •0.7, 8.) so in the Wilderness (Exod. 32.1, 2, &c.) and in the land of Canaan, under their Judges (Judges 2.17:) and under their Kings (2 King. 29.6.) Yet upon their humiliation and repentance, God received them to grace and favour.
The children of Israel in Egypt played the parts of Apostates, by the Idolatry which they committed (Ezek. •0.7, 8.) so in the Wildernesse (Exod. 32.1, 2, &c.) and in the land of Canaan, under their Judges (Iudges 2.17:) and under their Kings (2 King. 29.6.) Yet upon their humiliation and repentance, God received them to grace and favour.
But to give instance of particulars, Solomon in ⟨p. 78⟩his old age proved an Apostate (1 King. 11.4.) yet he repented as is evident by his book styled Ecclesiastes, which the Hebrews say (as we heard before) is the book of Solomons repentance. That God was merciful in pardoning his Apostasy, appears by this promise which God made to David concerning him (2 Sam. 7.14, 15.) If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the strip•s of the children of men; But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul.