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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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Alex. Why Sir, I pray you is every ignorant and sinful man an unbeliever?
Alex. Why Sir, I pray you is every ignorant and sinfull man an unbeleever?
Min. No not so neither, for there is a twofold Ignorance, and a twofold sinfulness; that is to say, there is an ignorance and sinfulness in part, and an ignorance and sinfulness in whole; now a man may be ignorant in part, and yet have true faith in Christ; for the Apostle saith concerning himself, and other true believers, We know but in part, 1 Cor. 13. 9. yea, and a man may be also sinful ⟨p. 7⟩in part, and yet be a true believer, witness the same Apostle, when he saith, Rom. 7. 23. I find a law in my members rebelling against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin. But if a man be wholly ignorant of Jesus Christ, and of himself, and of the Sacrament, as for ought I yet perceive you are, and wholly sinful, as by your own confession it appears you are, then it is impossible he should have true faith in Christ.
Min. No not so neither, for there is a twofold Ignorance, and a twofold sinfulnesse; that is to say, there is an ignorance and sinfulnesse in part, and an ignorance and sinfulnesse in whole; now a man may be ignorant in part, and yet have true faith in Christ; for the Apostle saith concerning himselfe, and other true beleevers, We know but in part, 1 Cor. 13. 9. yea, and a man may be also sinfull ⟨p. 7⟩in part, and yet be a true beleever, witnesse the same Apostle, when hee saith,