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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 I beseech you to receive it often.
Mat. Truly Sir, by means of these your speeches my judgement is much better informed touching the use and end of the Sacrament, and I am hereby much encouraged to approach thereunto; but Sir, because you do exhort me to receive it often, I would gladly know the reason why we must receive that Sacrament ⟨p. 254⟩of the Lords Supper often, seeing we are to receive the Sacrament of Baptism but once in all our lives.
Mat. Truly Sir, by meanes of these your speeches my judgement is much better informed touching the use and end of the Sacrament, and I am hereby much incouraged to approach thereunto; but Sir, because you doe exhort me to receive it often, I would gladly know the reason why we must receive that Sacrament ⟨p. 254⟩of the Lords Supper often, seeing we are to receive the Sacrament of Baptisme but once in all our lives.
Min. The Reason is, because the sacrament of1 Baptism is the sacrament of our Regeneration or new birth; and the sacrament of the Lords Supper is the sacrament of our spiritual nourishment and growth, and therefore we are to be baptized but once, because we are borne but once; but we are to receive the sacrament of the LORDS Supper often, because that after we are borne we stand in need to be often ⟨p. 255⟩nourished and fed, that so we may grow in grace; for indeed, growth in grace is a main end and fruit of that Ordinance, God thereby giving to every faithful Receiver the Body and Blood of his Son Christ, that by the Bread of his Flesh and the Wine of his Blood he may cause them to grow.