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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. It is because faith is the instrument, and as it were the hand whereby Christ and his Righteousness is received, so that wheresoever it is said in Scripture, that Faith is imputed to a man for his righteousness, or, that a man is justified by faith, we are to understand it relatively, that is, as it hath relation to Christ and his Righteousness, ⟨p. 95⟩which it receiveth and applieth; for indeed Faith considered in it self cannot be said to be imputed, neither as it is a habit, nor as it is an act, because that which is within a man cannot be said to be imputed1 to a man, but that which is without a man; but faith is within a man, for, With the heart man believeth, Rom. 10. 10. and therefore faith cannot be properly said to be imputed to a man▪ however, this may serve for a brief and full answer to2 your question, that to be justified by faith, and to be justified by Christs Righteousness, is all one ⟨p. 96⟩in Scripture phrase and meaning, Gal. 2. 16, 17.
Min. It is because faith is the instrument, and as it were the hand whereby Christ and his Righteousnesse is received, so that wheresoever it is said in Scripture, that Faith is imputed to a man for his righteousnesse, or, that a man is justified by faith, we are to understand it relatively, that is, as it hath relation to Christ and his Righteousnesse, ⟨p. 95⟩which it receiveth and applyeth; for indeed Faith considered in it selfe cannot be said to be imputed, neither as it is a habit, nor as it is an act, because that which is within a man cannot be said to be imputed1 to a man, but that which is without a man; but faith is within a man, for, With the heart man beleeveth,