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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. Sir, I grant it, that a man may think he doth believe when he doth not, and therein deceive himself, because that he cannot see his faith; but me thinks a man should not think he lives a godly and righteous course of life when he doth not, because ⟨p. 121⟩that is to be seen.
Sim. Sir, I grant it, that a man may thinke he doth beleeve when he doth not, and therein deceive himselfe, because that he cannot see his faith; but me thinkes a man should not thinke he lives a godly and righteous course of life when he doth not, because ⟨p. 121⟩that is to be seene.
Min. O but let me tell you, as there is a form of faith without the power of faith, which caused the Apostle to pray for the Thessalonians, that God 1would grant unto them the work of faith with power; even so is there a form of godliness without the power of godliness, as you may see, 2 Tim. 3. 5. And as this form of faith is nothing else but a faith of a mans own hammering, or of his own acquiring, and so is but an acquired faith, and not an infused faith; even so this form of godliness is nothing else ⟨p. 122⟩but a godliness of a mans own hammering, or of his own acquiring gotten by the improvement of his Natural and Moral abilities, and so indeed is but a godliness acquired, and not a godliness infused.
Min. O but let me tell you, as there is a forme of faith without the power of faith, which caused the Apostle to pray for the Thessalonians, that God 1