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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. Then Sir, it seems you do absolutely conclude that I am unfit to be admitted to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper?
Alex. Then Sir, it seems you doe absolutely conclude that I am unfit to be admitted to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper?
Min. Surely neighbour Alexander, you being wholly ignorant & wholly sinful, unbelieving, unregenerate, unconverted, no Son of God, no spiritually living man, and having neither hand to receive Christ, nor mouth to feed on Christ, nor being ⟨p. 41⟩able to examine your self, nor to discern the Lords Body, and an unworthy receiver, and so liable to become guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ, and to eat and drink your own damnation; I think it must needs follow that you are unfit to be admitted to the Sacrament of the LORDS Supper.
Min. Surely neighbour Alexander, you being wholly ignorant & wholly sinfull, unbeleeving, unregenerate, unconverted, no Sonne of God, no spiritually living man, and having neither hand to receive Christ, nor mouth to feed on Christ, nor being ⟨p. 41⟩able to examine your selfe, nor to discerne the Lords Bodie, and an unworthy receiver, and so liable to become guilty of the Bodie and Blood of Christ, and to eat and drink your own damnation; I think it must needs follow that you are unfit to be admitted to the Sacrament of the LORDS Supper.
Alex. Well Sir, if the case stand thus with me, then surely I have no cause to be sorry (as some are) but rather glad that the Parliament have taken such a course, that you Ministers and Elders in every Parish shall examine