A30243:1369
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 7 › Sermon 50
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6. Grace doth therefore establish and […] the heart, […] 1forward on[…], and to get up into an higher pitch of […] •uch remedy against unsteadfastness, as to […] in grave. […] when he bids believers take •eed of falling from their […] them to this as a special Antidote, But grow in grace, and […] Christ, 2 Pet. 3. 18. Its a necessary thing in Christianity, […] with low principles, but to […] our selves the […] degrees of grace: Thus Paul […] all behind, and did […] stretch out himself to reach and lay hold upon […] 2Grace is so exact, hath so great a latitude, that there […] thyself therein all thy life time, and yet at […] paratively, to the Giant thou shouldst be; why then art art thou […] and negligens? Hast thou all the faith thou canst have? All the heavenly mindedness thou mayest have? Canst thou go no further in godliness? look upon David and Paul in their course of godliness, and thou wilt cry out, Oh draw me, I am but the shadow of a godly man: There is so much perfection in the way of holiness, that I tremble at my imperfections.
6. Grace doth therefore establish and 〈…〉 the heart, 〈…〉 1forward on〈…〉, and to get up into an higher pitch of 〈…〉 •uch remedy against unstedfastness, as to 〈…〉 in grave. 〈…〉 when he bids believers take •eed of falling from their 〈…〉 them to this as a special Antidote, But grow in grace, and 〈…〉 Christ,