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London's gate to the Lords Table. Where the eldership doth sit doing their office…Londons gate to the Lords Table. Where the eldership doth sit doing their office…
London's gate to the Lords Table. Where the eldership doth sit doing their office aright, in discovering and shutting out the ignorant, profane, and mere civill honest man : in suspending the suspected formal, legal, and antinomisticall professor, and in drawing in the weakest humble believing soul. In a dialogue between a minister of the Gospel. Alexander an ignorant profane man. Simon a proud professor. And Matthias an humble penitent. Imprimatur Edmund Calamy.Londons gate to the Lords Table. Where the eldership doth sit doing their office aright, in discovering and shutting out the ignorant, prophane, and meere civill honest man : in suspending the suspected formall, legall, and antinomisticall professor, and in drawing in the weakest humble beleeving soule. In a dialogue betweene a minister of the Gospell. Alexander an ignorant prophane man. Simon a proud professor. And Matthias an humble penitent. Imprimatur Edmund Calamy.
London: printed for John Wright, 1646London: printed for Iohn Wright, 1646
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Alex. And do you think that I should eat and drink damnation to my self, if I should receive the Bread and Wine at the Sacrament?
Alex. And do you think that I should eat and drink damnation to my selfe, if I should receive the Bread and Wine at the Sacrament?
Min. I think you would commit such a sin in profaning the Sacrament, as deserves both eternal and temporal Judgement, for though this Table of the Lord be a Feast of choicest delicates for refreshing of the1 soul, when men come rightly prepared thereto, yet doth it become the bane and destruction of ⟨p. 40⟩souls, when men present themselves thereat with unbelieving impenitent and unholy hearts, as you would do if you should come there.
Min. I think you would commit such a sinne in prophaning the Sacrament, as deserves both eternall and temporall Judgement, for though this Table of the Lord be a Feast of choicest delicates for refreshing of the1 soule, when men come rightly prepared thereto, yet doth it become the bane and destruction of ⟨p. 40⟩soules, when men present themselves thereat with unbeleeving impenitent and unholy hearts, as you would doe if you should come there.
- 1Pemble on the Sacraments, p. 66.