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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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Yet his standing here before us, as ye see him, gives evidence that he is found.
Yet his standing here before us, as yee see him, gives evidence that he is found.
He was not found when he with his fellows slue some of the Turks in the ship:1 nor when they brought ship and the other Turks to Saint Lucas and there sold them: nor when he arrived in England his native Country again. ⟨p. 15⟩Though these were sure evidences of his freedom from Turkish slavery, yet not so of his freedom from a far worse slavery under sin and Satan, whereunto he subjected himself, when he renounced his Christian faith. His three companions whom he left in Spain, may yet still, for ought we know, remain lost.
He was not found when he with his fellowes slue some of the Turks in the ship:1 nor when they brought ship and the other Turks to Saint Lucas and there sold them: nor when he arrived in England his native Countrey againe. ⟨p. 15⟩Though these were sure evidences of his freedome from Turkish slavery, yet not so of his freedome from a farre worse slavery under sinne and Satan, whereunto he subjected himselfe, when he renounced his Christian faith. His three companions whom he left in Spaine, may yet still, for ought we know, remaine lost.
- 1When a Penitent i• found.