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Spiritual refining
Spiritual refining: or A treatise of grace and assurance Wherein are handled, the doctrine of assurance. The use of signs in self-examination. How true graces may be distinguished from counterfeit. Several true signs of grace, and many false ones. The nature of grace under divers Scripture notions or titles, as regeneration, the new-creature, the heart of flesh, vocation, sanctification, &c. Many chief questions (occasionally) controverted between the orthodox and the Arminians. As also many cases of conscience. Tending to comfort and confirm saints. Undeceive and convert sinners. Being CXX sermons preached and now published by Anthony Burgess sometime fellow of Emanuel College in Cambridge, and now pastor of the church of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.Spiritual refining: or A treatise of grace and assurance Wherein are handled, the doctrine of assurance. The use of signs in self-examination. How true graces may be distinguished from counterfeit. Several true signs of grace, and many false ones. The nature of grace under divers Scripture notions or titles, as regeneration, the new-creature, the heart of flesh, vocation, sanctification, &c. Many chief questions (occasionally) controverted between the orthodox and the Arminians. As also many cases of conscience. Tending to comfort and confirm saints. Undeceive and convert sinners. Being CXX sermons preached and now published by Anthony Burgess sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and now pastor of the church of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.
London: printed by A. Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1652
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A TREATISE OF GRACE and ASSURANCE; Being CXX. SERMONS. › Section 4 › Sermon 36
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Sixthly, This Corruption is universal in the extension of it. This leprosy is of the whole man; this sore is over all the soul, the mind darkened, the will rebellious, 1the affections unmortified, and the whole heart in great confusion and disorder; so that the Conscience of a man, which we would think might be best, like Jobs Messenger, at least to bring the sad news of all that hath befallen us, that also is unpure and unclean. Answerable to this general infection, the Apostle prayeth for the Thessalonians, That they may be renewed throughout, in soul, spirit and body. There is a body-filthiness, and a soul-filthiness; and there must be a body-cleansing, and a soul-cleansing, and in this men woefully mistake: They take some ⟨p. 221⟩illumination in the mind, accompanied with gifts and abilities in holy duties, for the thorough and universal sanctification of the whole man; our present age is a Theatre upon which you may see many such sad spectacles: But this will not serve; as original corruption is not sin only in the mind, or sin only in the will, but sin all over; so the grace of Regeneration is not only faith, or love, or patience, but all graces.
Sixthly, This Corruption is universall in the extention of it. This leprosie is of the whole man; this sore is over all the soul, the mind darkned, the will rebellious, 1the affections unmortified, and the whole heart in great confusion and disorder; so that the Conscience of a man, which we would think might be best, like Jobs Messenger, at least to bring the sad newes of all that hath befaln us, that also is unpure and unclean. Answerable to this generall infection, the Apostle prayeth for the Thessalonians, That they may be renewed thorowout, in soul, spirit and body. There is a body-filthinesse, and a soul-filthinesse; and there must be a bodycleansing, and a soul-cleansing, and in this men wofully mistake: They take some ⟨p. 221⟩illumination in the mind, accompanied with gifts and abilities in holy duties, for the thorow and universall sanctification of the whole man; our present age is a Theatre upon which you may see many such sad spectacles: But this will not serve; as originall corruption is not sin onely in the minde, or sinne onely in the will, but sinne all over; so the grace of Regeneration is not onely faith, or love, or patience, but all graces.