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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 43
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Fifthly, This new Creature is endowed with a fittednesse and preparedness for every 1good work; so that thereby there is an universal inclination to every good way: Thus the Apostle, Eph. 2. 20. We are his workmanship, created to every good work. As every creature is by Gods providence furnished with powers and faculties suitable to those actions and operations which belong to them; so is this new Creature accommodated with all those principles that may induce him to such a life as is answerable thereunto, so that what is said of Christ, A body thou hast prepared for me, is true, both of soul, and body in this new creature. Now this preparedness of heart for every duty and grace, is of infinite concernment; for without this the duty miscarrieth, and the heart is not easily put into an instrumental fitness for Gods glory; ⟨p. 269⟩there must be much cutting, and sawing, and hammering, ere the heart be a polished stone in Gods building.
Fifthly, This new Creature is endowed with a fittednesse and preparednesse for every 1good work; so that thereby there is an universall inclination to every good way: Thus the Apostle, Eph. 2. 20. We are his workmanship, created to every good work. As every creature is by Gods providence furnished with powers and faculties sutable to those actions and operations which belong to them; so is this new Creature accommodated with all those principles that may induce him to such a life as is answerable thereunto, so that what is said of Christ, A body thou hast prepared for me, is true, both of soul, and body in this new creature. Now this preparednesse of heart for every duty and grace, is of infinite concernment; for without this the duty miscarrieth, and the heart is not easily put into an instrumentall fitnesse for Gods glory; ⟨p. 269⟩there must be much cutting, and sawing, and hammering, ere the heart be a polished stone in Gods building.