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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. Alas, neighbour Simon. I fear you are of the same opinion touching this point of Justification, which I well remember, old Master Culverwell, who wrote the Treatise of Faith, once told me some legal Professors were, who using to come to him for resolution in some points, would tell him, that they could not believe their Justification, and Salvation, because they were so sinful and ungodly; whereupon he would ask them, Whether ⟨p. 88⟩they thought GOD would justify the godly or the ungodly, they would presently answer, the godly sure; nay would he say, You are deceived, for the Apostle saith, Rom. 4. 5. That God justifieth the ungodly; even so, if you did conceive that you were a sinful and ungodly man, I am confident you would not believe that God hath justified you, but because you do conceive you are a righteous and godly man, therefore you think that you are already justified.
Min. Alas, neighbour Simon. I feare you are of the same opinion touching this point of Justification, which I well remember, old Master Culverwell, who wrot the Treatise of Faith, once told me some legall Professours were, who using to come to him for resolution in some points, would tell him, that they could not beleeve their Justification, and Salvation, because they were so sinfull and ungodly; whereupon he would aske them, Whether ⟨p. 88⟩they thought GOD would justifie the godly or the ungodly, they would presently answer, the godly sure; nay would he say, You are deceived, for the Apostle saith, Rom. 4. 5. That God justifieth the ungodly; even so, if you did conceive that you were a sinfull and ungodly man, I am confident you would not beleeve that God hath justified you, but because you doe conceive you are a righteous and godly man, therefore you thinke that you are already justified.