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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. Truly neighbour Simon, I have neither mind nor time to fall upon any such discourse, neither would I advise you to trouble your self, ⟨p. 161⟩nor spend your time about any such circumstantial matters as I do conceive that is, but give rather diligence to make your calling and election sure, as the Apostle Peter exhorts us; labour to know Jesus Christ and him Crucified, and to know your self, and whether you be in the faith or no. There are too many people that do spend too much time about such needless matters, and too many wrangling disputes have been thereby occasioned; I wish with all my heart there might be no more, and I wish with all my ⟨p. 162⟩heart, that all who are truly godly either amongst them or us, had such humble loving hearts as Christians ought to have, that we might neither speak nor think evil one of another, but rather study and endeavour to make up the breaches which are needlessly made betwixt us, that so if it were the Lords will we might all speak the same thing, and that there might be no divisions amongst us, but that we might be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgement, according to the Apostles exhortation, 1 Cor. 1. 10. ⟨p. 163⟩and that we might with one mind, and with one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, as the Apostle exhorts, Rom. 15. 6. and so have more near and sweet communion together in all the Lords holy Ordinances, for the edifying and building up one another in our most holy faith; and thus you see what my mind and desire is touching these things.
Min. Truly neighbour Simon, I have neither minde nor time to fall upon any such discourse, neither would I advise you to trouble your selfe, ⟨p. 161⟩nor spend your time about any such circumstantiall matters as I doe conceive that is, but give rather diligence to make your calling and election sure, as the Apostle Peter exhorts us; labour to know Jesus Christ and him Crucified, and to know your selfe, and whether you be in the faith or no. There are too many people that doe spend too much time about such needlesse matters, and too many wrangling disputes have been thereby occasioned; I wish with all my heart there might be no more, and I wish with all my