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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. Why one sort of them, of whom I think meet to speak first, are such as may be truly called ⟨p. 104⟩Antinomisticall Professors, who confound the righteousness of Sanctification, with the righteousness of Justification, in making them to be both one, for they will have that righteousness which is inherent in Christ to be the righteousness both of their Justification, and of their Sanctification; they will have all righteousness to be inherent in Christ, and no righteousness to be inherent in themselves, they will have God to impute all righteousness unto them, but not infuse any righteousness into them, they will apply a perfect ⟨p. 105⟩righteousness unto themselves by faith; when as they have neither faith nor righteousness, they will have Christ without his Spirit, and so indeed have neither Christ nor his Spirit; you shall hear these men and women in their conference with others about these points, will be ever uttering these or the like speeches; As for me, truly I have nothing in me that is good, but am wholly sinful; neither do I look for any thing else to be in me but sin, and yet I do verily believe, that I am perfectly righteous in the sight of God ⟨p. 106⟩through Christ, or in Christ, being clothed with a garment of Salvation, and covered with a robe of Righteousness, so that I am all fair and clean, and there is no spot in me. These men and women, because they are not to look for any good in themselves, as a ground or cause of their faith, they will not look for any good in themselves as an evidence of faith, because they are not to look for inherent righteousness before they have by faith apprehended the imputed righteousness; therefore they ⟨p. 107⟩will not look for any inherent righteousness at all, because they must not look for inherent righteousness to move them to believe, therefore they will not look for it to assure them that they have believed.
Min. Why one sort of them, of whom I thinke meet to speake first, are such as may be truly called ⟨p. 104⟩