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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. Surely Sir, these men and women are much mistaken, but what do you think is the reason of it?
Sim. Surely Sir, these men and women are much mistaken, but what doe you thinke is the reason of it?
Min. Why truly, I have thought upon three Reasons of it, as first, because that they have either by means of hearing, reading, or conference, been instructed in the law of faith only, ⟨p. 108⟩without instruction in the law of works going before, or the Doctrine of the Law of Christs following after, or else in the Doctrine of the law of works, and the law of faith without the Doctrine of the Law of Christ. My meaning is, they have been instructed, that they of themselves are altogether unable either to do, or suffer that which the law as it is the covenant of works requireth, and that they are therefore in a damnable condition, and that yet notwithstanding, if they truly believe, and so apprehend the Righteousness ⟨p. 109⟩of Jesus Christ, they shall have life and salvation, but they have not been instructed that if they do truly believe, then they do hereupon become subject and obedient to the mind and will of Christ revealed in his Word; they have been instructed that he is Jesus, a Saviour, but they have not been instructed that to whomsoever he is Jesus, a Saviour, he is also to them Christ, a Lord. The second Reason is, because they take faith to be nothing else but a mere notion of Christ and his Righteousness, ⟨p. 110⟩swimming in their brain, or at the best but a mere apprehension thereof in their minds, which is but a faith of their own forging, & so they think they have a strong faith, when as indeed they have not the least measure or degree of a true weak faith; they think they have Christ in their hearts, when as indeed he is but in their heads; they think they have him in their wills and affections, when as indeed they have him but only in their understandings. And a third Reason is, because they mistake the meaning of the Apostle,