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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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Sim. Well Sir, I wish that I were fit to be admitted to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, for I see there is much good ⟨p. 261⟩to be gotten by the right receiving of it.
Min. Surely neighbour Simon, if men did but know what good is to be obtained at the hands of the Lord by the right partaking thereof, and what hurt doth come to a man by not receiving it aright, they would not only desire to come thereunto, as indeed many do, though it is to be feared hand over head, as we use to say, not knowing what they do, but they would also endeavour to fit and prepare themselves thereunto, and therefore no marvel though you do desire that you were fit to receive it aright.
Min. Surely neighbour Simon, if men did but know what good is to be obtained at the hands of the Lord by the right partaking thereof, and what hurt doth come to a man by not receiving it aright, they would not onely desire to come thereunto, as indeed many doe, though it is to be feared hand over head, as we use to say, not knowing what they doe, but they would also endeavour to fit and prepare themselves thereunto, and therefore no marvell though you do desire that you were fit to receive it aright.
Sim. Sir, I do perceive that he who is not fit to partake thereof is a miserable man, whether he do receive it or not.
Sim. Sir, I doe perceive that he who is not fit to partake thereof is a miserable man, whether he do receive it or not.