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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. But do you believe that your former sins are pardoned?
Min. But doe you beleeve that your former sins are pardoned?
Mat. No surely Sir, I cannot believe that, so so long as my present corruptions do still remain unsubdued.
Mat. No surely Sir, I cannot beleeve that, so so long as my present corruptions doe still remaine unsubdued.
Min. Weep not I pray you, but consider that you have gone a wrong way to work, you would have your sins subdued before they be pardoned, whereas the Lord doth first pardon sin, and then he gives power against sin.
Min. Weepe not I pray you, but consider that you have gone a wrong way to worke, you would have your sinnes subdued before they be pardoned, whereas the Lord doth first pardon sinne, and then he gives power against sinne.
Mat. But Sir, I have thought with my self, that as when I was a child, and had by the committing of any fault displeased my Father, he would at my entreating forgive me, upon condition that I did so no more; but if I committed the like fault again, then he would not forgive the