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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. This fit and suitable disposition which the Spirit of God hath wrought in you, consists in that sight and sense of your own ignorant sinful miserable and helpless condition, as hath made you see your need of Jesus Christ, to be made unto you of God wisdom, 1righteousness, sanctification and redemption.
Min. This fit and sutable disposition which the Spirit of God hath wrought in you, consists in that sight and sence of your owne ignorant sinfull miserable and helplesse condition, as hath made you see your need of Jesus Christ, to be made unto you of God wisdome, 1righteousnesse, sanctification and redemption.
Mat. But Sir, I pray you how can such a disposition be said to make me worthy to be admitted to the Lords Table?
Min. Why even as we, when we see a miserable poor hungry man, that is sensible of his own miserable and helpless condition crave an Alms, with earnest desire and entreating, we do conceive he is in a fit and suitable disposition to receive it, and account him worthy to have an Alms bestowed upon him. Even so when the Lord sees a man so sensible of his own miserable and helpless condition, that he sees and feels his need of Jesus Christ, and therefore doth earnestly desire him, he conceives him to be in a fit and suitable ⟨p. 218⟩