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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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12. Be inwardly more dejected in soul, more pierced in spirit, and broken in heart, then with the tears of thine eyes, beatings of thy breast, casting down of thy body, and confession of thy mouth thou canst express. For thy sin for which this penance is enjoined is an heinous sin,2 a crying sin, a sin that comes near to the unpardonable sin, that sin unto death. Thereby thou deniedst the Lord that bought thee: thereby thou renouncedst the only means of thy salvation: thereby thou rannest out of thy Lords camp into the army of his enemies, and so becamest an enemy to thy Lord.3 How dishonourable was this to thy Lord? How disgraceful to his Church? O how did those cursed enemies insult thereat? What cause hast thou to cry our (as Jer. 9.1.) Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for my sin? Thou hast cause enough to draw water (as the Israelites did, 1 Sam. 7.6.) from the ⟨p. 85⟩bottom of a broken heart, and to pour it out before the Lord, as he who said (Psal. 119.136) Rivers of water run down mine eyes. Remember what Peter did, when he was put in mind of such a sin as thou hast committed, He went out and wept bitterly, Math. 26.75. Those bitter tears must needs flow out of the bottom of an heart thoroughly broken.
12. Be inwardly more dejected in soule, more pierced in spirit, and broaken in heart, then with the teares of thine eyes, beatings of thy brest, casting downe of thy body, and confession of thy mouth thou canst expresse. For thy sinne for which this penance is enjoyned is an heinous sinne,2