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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. Why I mean you are wholly given over to sin, you commit sin with greediness, without any strife in your will and affections against it; you love sin, and delight in the committing of it.
Min. Why I meane you are wholly given over to sinne, you commit sinne with greedinesse, without any strife in your will and affections against it; you love sinne, and delight in the committing of it.
Alex. Nay now Sir, I see you are deceived in me, for I thank God I ⟨p. 18⟩do strive against my sins, and would fain leave off my sinful courses, and as the saying is, My Spirit is willing, but my Flesh is weak; The Lord be merciful unto me, and forgive me all my sins, as I hope he will.
Alex. Nay now Sir, I see you are deceived in me, for I thanke God I ⟨p. 18⟩doe strive against my sins, and would faine leave off my sinfull courses, and as the saying is, My Spirit is willing, but my Flesh is weake; The Lord bee mercifull unto mee, and forgive me all my sinnes, as I hope he will.
Min. But what is your meaning, when you say, You do strive against your sins, and would fain leave them.
Min. But what is your meaning, when you say, You doe strive against your sinnes, and would faine leave them.