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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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Ninthly, thereupon it is, that we must be new Creatures in all our duties, because Gods Promise is only to such duties that flow from such a Fountain. There is no 1promise made singly to bare hearing, and bare praying, but to those that are done with a godly heart, with the whole heart: To those that are poor in spirit; to those that turn from their evil ways, and all these properties are the fruit of the new Creature. If therefore there can be no promise, then there can be no acceptance: Now what a terrible consideration is this! Thou that livest in thy sins, thou that refusest to be reformed, yet thou prayest, thou hearest, think with thy self what promise is there in all Gods Word, that I may challenge. What Word of God is there to encourage me to pray in hope, to hear in hope; so that by this you see the absolute necessity of this point: Well might the Apostle say, Pace be on ⟨p. 248⟩[…] ⟨p. 249⟩[…] ⟨p. 250⟩all those who walk after this principle, for to other there can be no just peace in all their prayers, and religious duties.
Ninthly, thereupon it is, that we must be new Creatures in all our duties, because Gods Promise is onely to such duties that flow from such a Fountain. There is no 1promise made singly to bare hearing, and bare praying, but to those that are done with a godly heart, with the whole heart: To those that are poor in spirit; to those that turn from their evil wayes, and all these properties are the fruit of the new Creature. If therefore there can be no promise, then there can be no acceptance: Now what a terrible consideration is this! Thou that livest in thy sins, thou that refusest to be reformed, yet thou prayest, thou hearest, think with thy self what promise is there in all Gods Word, that I may challenge. What Word of God is there to encourage me to pray in hope, to hear in hope; so that by this you see the absolute necessity of this point: Well might the Apostle say, Pace be on ⟨p. 248⟩