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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. Why truly Sir, I must confess I never ⟨p. 140⟩thought my self guilty of any such thing.
Sim. Why truly Sir, I must confesse I never ⟨p. 140⟩thought my selfe guilty of any such thing.
Min. Why then believe it you are guilty of it, for it is natural for every man and woman, when they leave off plodding towards Hell in the dirty path of sin, yet to go on thitherward in the cleaner path of duty rested in; when Satan cannot keep a man from Christ by sin, then he labours to keep him from him by self; if he cannot keep a man with his sins from flesh-pots in Egypt, then he labours to keep him from Canaan, by losing himself, and his soul in the wilderness ⟨p. 141⟩of his own performances rested in, assure your self that there is in all men naturally this frame of spirit, never to come to Christ whilst they have any hopes that their own performances will heal them, & therefore here they rest until they see it, bewail it, and pray against it; and therefore if you never did so, it is clear that you do put confidence in your own performances. Again, I pray you answer me another question truly; and that is, Did you ever see so many imperfections, and so much rottenness and corruption, ⟨p. 142⟩as touching the manner and end of performing duties that you have even loathed your self, and have been wearied and tired in your own endeavours by reason of the same.
Min. Why then beleeve it you are guilty of it, for it is naturall for every man and woman, when they leave off plodding towards Hell in the dirty path of sinne, yet to goe on thitherward in the cleaner path of duty rested in; when Satan cannot keepe a man from Christ by sinne, then he labours to keep him from him by selfe; if he cannot keep a man with his sinnes from flesh-pots in Aegypt, then he labours to keep him from Canaan, by losing himselfe, and his soule in the wildernesse