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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 7 › Sermon 52
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1. An effective opposition, as between fire and water. Thus the spirit lusteth against the flesh; as the spirit of wine and poison conflict together. Therefore ⟨p. 327⟩1when sin is at quiet in a mans life, and thou art ungodly, profane, and there is no reluctancy, no opposition; this is an argument of little or no grace in thee. Oh consider this all ye who lye down in sin with security; there is no complaining in thy heart, no trouble in thy conscience, no strugglings in thy breast, no stirrings in fervent prayer, Lord help me else I am overcome. Truly as the psalmist saith of some wicked mens death, They have no bonds, they are not in pain as other men, so also in their life time they are not in that shame, grief, and trouble about sin, as the godly sometimes are.
1. An effective opposition, as between fire and water. Thus the spirit lusteth against the flesh; as the spirit of wine and poyson conflict together. Therefore ⟨p. 327⟩1when sin is at quiet in a mans life, and thou art ungodly, prophane, and there is no reluctancy, no opposition; this is an argument of little or no grace in thee. Oh consider this all ye who lye down in sin with security; there is no complaining in thy heart, no trouble in thy conscience, no struglings in thy breast, no stirrings in fervent prayer, Lord help me else I am overcom. Truely as the psalmist saith of some wicked mens death, They have no bonds, they are not in pain as other men, so also in their life time they are not in that shame, grief, and trouble about sin, as the godly sometimes are.
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