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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. Surely neighbour ⟨p. 30⟩Alexander, you not having true faith in Christ, you cannot be a partaker thereof, though we should admit you.
Min. Surely neighbour ⟨p. 30⟩Alexander, you not having true faith in Christ, you cannot bee a partaker thereof, though we should admit you.
Alex. This is strange to me Sir, cannot I come to Church and receive the Bread and Wine, and eat it, and drink it, if you give it me?
Alex. This is strange to me Sir, cannot I come to Church and receive the Bread and Wine, and eat it, and drinke it, if you give it me?
Min. Yea I do confess, though you have no faith yet you may partake of the Bread and Wine; but you are not to come to the Sacrament to partake of the Bread and Wine, but to be made a partaker of CHRISTS Body and Blood, under the similitude of Bread and Wine, ⟨p. 31⟩but this you cannot do without Faith, for Faith is the hand with which Christ is received as you may see, Joh. 1. 12. yea, and it is the mouth by which we feed on him, as you may see, Joh. 6. 53. wherefore I beseech you be not so simple as to think and imagine that you are to come to the Sacrament for a morsel of finer Bread, or for a draught of sweet Wine; nor that if you receive the outward Elements in a reverend manner, and behave your self decently during that action, and demean your self mannerly for that day, that