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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. 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⟩disposition to receive him, and so accounts him worthy of him; and therefore we read in the tenth Chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, that when our Saviour sent forth his Disciples to preach the Gospel, that is to say, the glad tidings of Justification, Sanctification, and everlasting Salvation by Jesus Christ, he said unto them, verse the 11, Into whatsoever City or Town ye enter, enquire who in it is worthy, and there abide. And if we compare this verse with Luk. 10. 7, 8, 9. we shall perceive that they, and only they were those worthy ones, which ⟨p. 219⟩testified their sight and sense of their own misery, and their desire to receive Christ into their hearts, as their only remedy, by receiving his Disciples into their houses, counting their feet very beautiful for preaching the Gospel of peace, and bringing unto them glad tidings of good things; these are those poor ones whom our Saviour saith, Receive the Gospel, Matth. 11. 5. and these are they who mourn under the sight and sense of their own spiritual wants, unto whom he promiseth comfort, Mat. 5. 4. and these are they that hunger and ⟨p. 220⟩thirst for Christs Righteousness, whom he promiseth to satisfy, Matth. 5. 6.
Min. Why even as we, when we see a miserable poore hungry man, that is senceable of his owne miserable and helplesse condition crave an Almes, with earnest desire and intreating, we doe conceive he is in a fit and sutable disposition to receive it, and account him worthy to have an Almes bestowed upon him. Even so when the Lord sees a man so sensible of his owne miserable and helplesse condition, that he sees and feeles his need of Jesus Christ, and therefore doth earnestly desire him, he conceives him to be in a fit and sutable