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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. Well Sir, though I be wholly ignorant and wholly sinful, as you say, yet would I fain know the reason why I may not have true faith in Christ for all that?
Alex. Well Sir, though I be wholly ignorant and wholly sinfull, as you say, yet would I faine know the reason why I may not have true faith in Christ for all that?
Min. The reason why there can be no true faith in Christ when a man is wholly ignorant of him, is because it is the nature ⟨p. 25⟩of faith to believe that which it knoweth; so that wheresoever there is no true knowledge of Christ there can be no true faith in Christ; and therefore1 Christ himself makes the knowledge of him all one with belief in him, Joh. 17. 3. And the reason why there can be no true faith in Christ when a man is wholly sinful is, because holiness of life and conversation is an unseparable companion and fruit of faith; for faith purifieth the heart, Acts 15. 9. and faith worketh by love, Gal. 5. 6.
Min. The reason why there can be no true faith in Christ when a man is wholly ignorant of him, is because it is the nature ⟨p. 25⟩of faith to beleeve that which it knoweth; so that wheresoever there is no true knowledge of Christ there can be no true faith in Christ; and therefore1 Christ himselfe makes the knowledge of him all one with beleefe in him,