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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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Min. But I do conceive that it is meet for them also to come to be examined, that so the Eldership may have a full satisfaction concerning their fitness, so far forth as they are able to judge, yea and that they themselves may by their approbation be ⟨p. 53⟩the better confirmed in the same; yea, and that the ignorant sort, who for want of knowledge are turned back, may have no occasion given them to say, That the Ministers and Elders are partial, and that such a man or such a woman would be found as ignorant as they, if they were examined.
Min. But I do conceive that it is meet for them also to come to be examined, that so the Eldership may have a full satisfaction concerning their fitnesse, so far forth as they are able to judge, yea and that they themselves may by their approbation bee ⟨p. 53⟩the better confirmed in the same; yea, and that the ignorant sort, who for want of knowledge are turned backe, may have no occasion given them to say, That the Ministers and Elders are partiall, and that such a man or such a woman would be found as ignotant as they, if they were examined.
Sim. Well Sir, I do now begin to conceive that it is meet for a godly and learned Minister to examine a man, but I neither see it lawful nor needful that those whom you call Elders should have any hand in such a ⟨p. 54⟩business, especially such ignorant men as some of them are to my knowledge.
Sim. Well Sir, I doe now beginne to conceive that it is meet for a godly and learned Minister to examine a man, but I neither see it lawfull nor needfull that those whom you call Elders should have any hand in such a ⟨p. 54⟩businesse, especially such ignorant men as some of them are to my knowledge.