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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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Sim. Why then Sir, me thinks it should be in vain for a man to come before you to be examined.
Sim. Why then Sir, me thinkes it should be in vaine for a man to come before you to be examined.
Min. No, not so neither, for though it be possible that we may be deceived, yet considering the course that we take in our way of examining, I hope we are seldom deceived, if at all.
Min. No, not so neither, for though it be possible that we may be deceived, yet considering the course that we take in our way of examining, I hope we are seldome deceived, if at all.
Sim. Why Sir, I pray tell me what course you take.
Min. Why when any one cometh before us to be examined, we first of all desire him either to make some brief Confession of his faith, or else to answer us some Questions which we shall propound unto him, and if a man give us satisfaction concerning his knowledge of Christ, of himself, and of the Sacrament, then we ask him what evidences he can show of his Conversion, or New Birth, and so consequently of his true faith in Christ; and if he also