A01980:46
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Before I proceed in a distinct handling of these two particulars, I suppose it to be meet to set before you a general view of the whole: and that as it consists of two opposite terms, LOST, FOUND; but made to agree by two different tenses or times, WAS, IS. He WAS lost, and IS found.
1Before I proceed in a distinct handling of these two particulars, I suppose it to be meet to set before you a generall view of the whole: and that as it consists of two opposite termes, LOST, FOVND; but made to agree by two different tences or times, WAS, IS. He WAS lost, and IS found.
- 1Difference betwixt turning to the worse, and to the better.Difference betw•x• turning to the worse, and to the better.
He WAS, He IS; These are the two distinct and different times.
The former, He WAS, notes out the time past: and that was his fore-lorn estate.
The former, He WAS, notes out the time past: and that was his fore-lorne estate.