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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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To show that such a passage from the worse to the better is remarkable, and not to be forgotten, the Apostle adviseth the converted Gentiles to remember it Remember that ye being in time passed Gentiles in the flesh: 1— That at that time ye were without Christ:— But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
To shew that such a passage from the worse to the better is remarkable, and not to be forgotten, the Apostle adviseth the converted Gentiles to remember it Remember that yee being in time passed Gentiles in the flesh: 1— That at that time yee were without Christ:— But now in Christ Iesus, yee who sometimes were farre off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
This was the case of the penitent Prodigal, He was lost, and is found. And this is the case ⟨p. 12⟩of the Penitent Renegado here before us. He was lost, 1and is found. He was lost, not when he first set to sea: nor when the Turkish Pirates set upon the ship wherein he was: nor when they took him captive: nor when they sold him for a slave: nor when he was under the harsh and hard handling of the cruel Negro. The basest slave that can be under man, believing in Christ, and fast-holding his Christian faith, is (to use the Apostles phrase, (1 Cor. 7.22.) the Lords freeman. Therefore not lost. He that endureth whatsoever the cruellest persecutor can inflict upon him for Christs sake, is blessed,