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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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Min. I but whatsoever ⟨p. 16⟩you think of your self, and whatever your hopes are, the Lord tells you, Prov. 19. 2. That without knowledge the heart or mind is not good; and although it be possible that a man of great knowledge may have an evil heart of unbelief, and so perish, yet it is without all question, that he who hath no knowledge hath an evil heart of unbelief, and therefore shall perish, as it is written, Hos. 3. 6. My people perish for want of knowledge.
Min. I but whatsoever ⟨p. 16⟩you thinke of your selfe, and whatever your hopes are, the Lord tells you, Prov. 19. 2. That without knowledge the heart or minde is not good; and although it be possible that a man of great knowledge may have an evill heart of unbeleefe, and so perish, yet it is without all question, that hee who hath no knowledge hath an evil heart of unbeleefe, and therefore shall perish, as it is written, Hos. 3. 6. My people perish for want of knowledge.
Alex. And Sir, do you also think that I am wholly sinful?
Alex. And Sir, do you also thinke that I am wholly sinfull?
Min. Yea indeed do I, ⟨p. 17⟩for an ignorant heart is always a sinful heart, and a man without knowledge is always a man without grace.