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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. Sir, I do acknowledge that I am very ignorant ⟨p. 240⟩in these points, and therefore have great need to use all the means I can to be better informed, and truly for the present I know no better means then to entreat you to give me some further instruction concerning the same.
Mat. Sir, I doe acknowledge that I am very ignorant ⟨p. 240⟩in these points, and therefore have great need to use all the meanes I can to be better informed, and truly for the present I know no better meanes then to intreat you to give me some further instruction concerning the same.
Min. God willing you shall not want the best instructions that I am able to give you, and therefore I pray you understand that the Sacrament of the LORDS Supper was by Christ himself instituted and ordained for three especial ends. 1 As first of all, to keep Believers in a continual ⟨p. 241⟩remembrance of that propitiatory Sacrifice which he once for all offered by his death upon the Cross, Do this, saith he, in remembrance 1of me; that is to say, Do this in remembrance that my Body was broken and my Blood shed for the remission of your sins. 2 Secondly, Christ did institute and ordain it to be a seal of the righteousness 2of faith to ratify and confirm the Covenant of promise made with all believers; for indeed that Covenant is as a last Will and Testament, and the Sacraments are as Seals set thereunto, whereby all ⟨p. 242⟩the promises in the Covenant of Grace or the Gospel are ratified and confirmed to every faithful soul, that so they having both Christs hand and seal, their faith may be the better confirmed and strengthened. 3 Thirdly, Christ did institute and ordain it to be spiritual nourishment to every hungry and thirsty soul; yea, and to be spiritual Physic to heal and cure every sensible sick and diseased soul. Now these being the ends for which Christ did institute and ordain the Sacrament, I beseech you let your coming thereunto