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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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In the ten fierce and fiery persecutions of Christians ⟨p. 79⟩under the Roman Emperors, many renounced the Christian faith:1 and in the tumults raised by Arians, others renounced the Orthodox faith, yet the Catholic Church with a motherly affection received them again upon evidence of their repentance: as Peter was received after his weeping, being put in mind of his sin by the crowing of a Cock.
In the ten fierce and fiery persecutions of Christians ⟨p. 79⟩under the Romane Emperours, many renounced the Christian faith:1 and in the tumults raised by Arrians, others renounced the Orthodox faith, yet the Catholike Church with a motherly affection received them againe upon evidence of their repentance: as Peter was received after his weeping, being put in mind of his sin by the crowing of a Cock.
- 1Hos Ecclesia Cathol•ca materno recipit sinu, tanquam Petrum post f•etum negationis per ga•icanum a•monitū. Aug de agone C•risti. c. 30.Hos Ecclesia Cathol•ca materno recipit sinu, tanquam Petrum post f•etum negationis per ga•icanum a•monitū. Aug de agone C•risti. c. 30.