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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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If the terms of my Text had been thus changed, He was found, and is lost, it had been more miserable then, fuimus Troes, we were a flourishing people: or then, [Greek or Hebrew] Aeca the title and first word of Jeremiahs Lamentations, HOW?1 How doth the City sit solitary that was full of people? In such a case, miserum est fuisse, it is a miserable thing to have been: to have been in our Fathers house, and to be lost: as, to have been living and to be dead. But as the parts of the Proposition stand in my Text, He was lost, and is found, meminisse juvabit, it will be a comfort to consider that such and such a woeful estate is altered: that He was lost, and is found. It is like to that comfort which he found in his soul, who said, I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious, 2but I have obtained mercy. Hereupon with much content and comfort he saith (1 Cor. 15.10.) By the grace of God I am that I am.
If the termes of my Text had beene thus changed, He was found, and is lost, it had beene more miserable then, fuimus Troes, wee were a flourishing people: or then, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Aeca the title and first word of Ieremiahs Lamentations, HOVV?1 How doth the Citie sit solitary that was full of people? In such a case, miserum est fuisse, it is a miserable thing to have beene: to have beene in our Fathers house, and to be lost: as, to have beene living and to be dead. But as the parts of the Proposition stand in my Text, He was lost, and is found, meminisse juvabit, it will be a comfort to consider that such and such a woefull estate is altered: that He was lost, and is found. It is like to that comfort which he found in his soule, who said, I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious, 2but I have obtained mercy. Hereupon with much content and comfort he saith (1 Cor. 15.10.) By the grace of God I am that I am.