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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. 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 1would grant unto them the worke of faith with power; even so is there a forme of godlinesse without the power of godlinesse, as you may see, 2 Tim. 3. 5. And as this forme of faith is nothing else but a faith of a mans owne hammering, or of his owne acquiring, and so is but an acquired faith, and not an infused faith; even so this forme of godlinesse is nothing else ⟨p. 122⟩but a godlinesse of a mans owne hammering, or of his owne acquiring gotten by the improvement of his Naturall and Morall abilities, and so indeed is but a godlinesse acquired, and not a godlinesse infused.