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…

Name: A recovery from apostasy Set out in a sermon preached in Stepney Church near…
Author: William Gouge

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.

William Gouge 1578–1653London: printed by George Miller for Joshua Kirton, 1639London: printed by George Miller for Ioshua Kirton, 1639

[6], 90, [2] p. · 21k words · STC 12124 · ESTC S103306

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A RECOVERY FROM APOSTASY. Set forth in a Sermon Preached in Stepney…: A RECOVERY FROM APOSTASY. Set forth in a Sermon Preached in Stepney Church at the receive…A RECOVERY FROM APOSTACY. Set forth in a Sermon Preached in Stepny…: A RECOVERY FROM APOSTACY. Set forth in a Sermon Preached in Stepny Church at the receiv…

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:76p. 19

For this end they had ⁱMinisters to order the penance of such Penitents, and to receive them again into the Church. ^kThey had also public places for such Penitents to stand in: and they had ^lforms of confession, and rites for Penitents to observe.

For this end they had ⁱMinisters to order the penance of such Penitents, and to receive them againe into the Church. ^kThey had also publicke places for such Penitents to stand in: and they had ^lformes of confession, and rites for Penitents to observe.

iIn Ecclesiae qualibe• praebyterunt paenitent•arium constituerunt
kCertus est paenitentium locus Niceph. Eccl. Hist. l. 12. c. 28.
lLege ibid de f•rma paenitentiae.

:77p. 19–20

From those primitive times of the Christian Church even to these our days, they who after their revolt from the Faith, have been thoroughly touched in conscience for their sin, have not unwillingly made recantations, and confessions, and undergone what the Church thought meet to lay upon them. This time after time hath been done in all reformed Churches: And that not only by such as hve returned from Paganism, Turkism, and Judaism,

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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…

Hitherto of the general consideration of my Text, by handling the two opposite terms jointly in their distinct times. I proceed now to the particular points severally: each by it self.

Hetherto of the generall consideration of my Text, by handling the two opposite termes joyntly in their distinct times. I proceed now to the particular points severally: each by it selfe.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Hitherto of the general consideration of my Text, by handling the two opposite terms jointly in their distinct times. I proceed now to the particular points severally: each by it self.

Hetherto of the generall consideration of my Text, by handling the two opposite termes joyntly in their distinct times. I proceed now to the particular points severally: each by it selfe.

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