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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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and therefore when you are at the Lords Table (as I hope you will be very shortly) and there see the Bread and Wine separated by consecration unto this holy use, and these blessed ends, then remember Christ, and think how ⟨p. 245⟩he was fore-ordained and1 fore-appointed by his Father from everlasting unto the accomplishing of our redemption, by his death and blood-shedding; and when you see the Bread broken and the Wine poured forth, then remember Christ, and think how he was torn and rent in his precious Body with stripes and wounds, and pained even to the death in his most holy Soul, full of the wrath of God, and the indignation of the Almighty, by whom he was smitten for your sins, and plagued for your transgressions: and when the ⟨p. 246⟩Minister offereth unto you the Bread and Wine, then remember Christ, and think how he is given to you of God freely, yea and freely gives himself to you if you will receive him; and when you receive the Bread and drink the Wine, then remember Christ that living Bread, and think how he himself hath said, Joh. 6. 5. 5. My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed; and believe, that thereby he gives life unto your soul, and will preserve it to all eternity; in a word, consider how God the Father did by this death and ⟨p. 247⟩bloodshed of his Son thus represented in the Sacrament, fully answer and satisfy his own justice, to the end he might set open a door of mercy to all humble penitent hearted sinners; yea, and do you thereupon assuredly believe that you have thereby tendered unto the Justice of God a full and perfect satisfaction for all your sins, and that therefore now it is a meet and equal thing with God (he having received and accepted this full satisfaction) to pardon and forgive you all your sins, according to his promise, Mat. 26. 28. yea, ⟨p. 248⟩do you believe, and assuredly persuade your heart, that for this satisfaction sake you are reconciled unto God, according to his promise,