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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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Indeed the ancient Discipline of the Church about receiving such as had Apostatized from her, into her bosom again, was more austere, then now it is: mThe rather because of the Novatians, who would not communicate with them, who had denied the faith in the persecution of Decius, and afterwards repenting turned to the same faith again.
Indeed the ancient Discipline of the Church about receiving such as had Apostatised from her, into her bosome againe, was more austere, then now it is: mThe rather because of the Novatians, who would not communicate with them, who had denied the faith in the persecution of Decius, and afterwards repenting turned to the same faith againe.
- mRitu• •ste propter Novati. anos institutu• esse dicitur, quū communicare illi cum eis nollent, qui sub Decij persecution fidem abn•garant, & postea resipiscentes ad eam redierant▪ Niceph Eccl. Hist. l. 12. c. 28.Ritu• •ste propter Novati. anos institutu• esse dicitur, quū communicare illi cum eis nollent, qui sub Decij persecutione fidem abn•garant, & postea resipiscentes ad eam redierant▪ Niceph Ecl. Hist. l. 12. c. 28.
In those days Penitents were wont to put n