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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. I tell you neighbour Simon, that in these days of Gospel light, a man may have a great measure of knowledge concerning Christs Person, Christs Offices, Christs Death and Resurrection, & yet all may be but mere notions floating in the brain, and so indeed have no more true faith in Christ then Paul had when he was a Pharisee, the Apostle Peter speaks of some in his time that had escaped the pollutions of the world, and that through the knowledge of ⟨p. 64⟩the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and yet afterwards were entangled and overcome, 2 Pet. 2. 20.
Min. I tell you neighbour Simon, that in these dayes of Gospell light, a man may have a great measure of knowledge concerning Christs Person, Christs Offices, Christs Death and Resurrection, & yet all may be but meer notions floting in the braine, and so indeed have no more true faith in Christ then Paul had when he was a Pharisee, the Apostle Peter speakes of some in his time that had escaped the pollutions of the world, and that through the knowledge of ⟨p. 64⟩the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and yet afterwards were intangled and overcome, 2 Pet. 2. 20.
Sim. But Sir, I should think it were impossible for a man that is able to answer you any question, touching any fundamental point of Religion, and that leads an honest and religious course of life to want true faith in Christ, for me thinks it should be as evident, that such a man hath true faith, as it is evident, that a sinful and ungodly man hath it not.
Sim. But Sir, I should thinke it were impossible for a man that is able to answer you any question, touching any fundamentall point of Religion, and that leades an honest and religious course of life to want true faith in Christ, for me thinkes it should be as evident, that such a man hath true faith, as it is evident, that a sinfull and ungodly man hath it not.