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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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SECT. III. A Discovery of many false or unsufficient Signs of Grace which carnal men support themselves with.
SECT. III. A Discovery of many false or unsufficient Signs of Grace which carnall men support themselves with.
SERMON XIX. Rom 2. 28, 29. For he is not a Jew that is one outwardly, &c. Church-privileges no sign of Grace. SERMON XX. Matth. 7. 22. Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, &c. Gifts and Parts in matters of Religion no sign of Grace. SERMON XXI. Hebr. 6. 9. But beloved we hope better things of you, and things that accompany salvation. That there may be affections and sweet motions of heart in holy things, which yet evidence not Grace, nor accompany salvation. SERMON XXII. Rom. 14. 17. For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Ghost. Showeth, That from Judgements, Opinions and Disputes, Arguments of the Truth of Grace cannot be drawn. SERMON XXIII. 1 John 4. 1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they be of God. ⟨image 6⟩Declaring what deceits men lie open to, in Judging those things to be Works of the Spirit, which indeed are not. SERMON XXIV. 1 Cor. 13. 3. And although I give my body to be burned, and have not charity it profiteth me nothing. Manifesting that the greatest sufferings for Christ, are not infallible Evidences of Grace. SERMON XXV.