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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. Believe me Sir, I must confess I have done so.
Sim. Beleeve me Sir, I must confesse I have done so.
Min. Then I beseech you take this as another evident sign of your resting, and putting confidence in your own performances, for if a man do not put confidence ⟨p. 147⟩therein, then he makes use of such performances, but only as a Bridge or Ferry-boat to carry or waft him over to God in Christ, and resteth not contented till he be brought thither; other signs I might lay down touching this matter, but I hope these will be sufficient for you to try your self by, if the Lord be pleased to make them effectual to you.
Min. Then I beseech you take this as another evident signe of your resting, and putting confidence in your owne performances, for if a man doe not put confidence ⟨p. 147⟩therein, then he makes use of such performances, but onely as a Bridge or Ferry-boat to carry or waft him over to God in Christ, and resteth not contented till hee bee brought thither; other signes I might lay downe touching this matter, but I hope these will be sufficient for you to try your selfe by, if the Lord be pleased to make them effectuall to you.
Sim. Well Sir, and suppose that I should thereby find that I have been guilty of resting and relying upon mine own duties and performances, and should come before ⟨p. 148⟩you and the Elders, and acknowledge the same, would you thereupon conclude me to be but a formal legal Professor without true faith in Christ, and therefore not fit to be admitted to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.