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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 5 › Sermon 40
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First, Because God doth not graciously accept any man, but where he seeth his own likeness, his own similitude. Thus God made man at first after his own Image, that so 1he might delight in him, and communicate happiness to him, which Beasts were not capable of. Now this Regeneration is called, Ephes. 4. A renewing after the Image of God. It is a known Rule, That likeness is a cause of love. And this ⟨p. 247⟩holdeth in some proportion between us and God: For although this new Creature of grace hath many imperfections and deformities in it; yet for the substance and main it's the likeness and Image of God, and so for Christs sake he accepts of it.
First, Because God doth not graciously accept any man, but where he seeth his own likeness, his own similitude. Thus God made man at first after his own Image, that so 1he might delight in him, and communicate happinesse to him, which Beasts were not capable of. Now this Regeneration is called, Ephes. 4. A renewing after the Image of God. It is a known Rule, That likenesse is a cause of love. And this ⟨p. 247⟩holdeth in some proportion between us and God: For although this new Creature of grace hath many imperfections and deformities in it; yet for the substance and main it's the likenesse and Image of God, and so for Christs sake he accepts of it.
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