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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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Mat. But alas Sir, I am so ashamed, and troubled in my mind when I consider how far other men do out-strip me, both in knowledge and other ⟨p. 209⟩graces, that I know not what to do.
Mat. But alas Sir, I am so ashamed, and troubled in my minde when I consider how farre other men doe out-strip me, both in knowledge and other ⟨p. 209⟩graces, that I know not what to doe.
Min. But surely you have no cause at all to be troubled at that, for it is to be feared there are some Professors that grow up quickly, and flourish abundantly in a legal way, they are not troubled with inward heart corruptions as other poor souls are, they are full of parts, gifts, abilities, and duties which others want, and are very glorious Christians in outward appearance, and yet for lack of an humble foundation they are but flittering fleeting motions, & windy ⟨p. 210⟩conceptions; whereas you or rather the Spirit of Christ in you, hath laid such an humble foundation, that questionless there shall be built upon it a gracious building, composed of many Evangelical Graces, and therefore I pray you be not dismayed, though you come far short of many vain glorious high-spirited Professors; it is like the Lord sees though it may be you do not; that if you had such parts, gifts, and abilities which some others have, and had not some sinful corruptions in you which it may be others have not, that then ⟨p. 211⟩you would he lifted up above that which is meet, and be kept in your self from Christ; therefore it is the Lords glorious wisdom, and gracious goodness to you, to let some of your sinful corruptions remain in you, especially to open your eyes to see them, and to affect your heart with them, and to let you come behind others in gifts and parts, that so your soul may sink in holy despair of any help in your self, and rest in nothing till it come to Christ Crucified, and the eternal sweet promise in him; howbeit this you may be assured