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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 53
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Eighthly, Grace, where it is, makes a man diligent, fervent and conscientious in all the 1means of grace. God knoweth that grace in our hearts is like smoking flax quickly put out; he therefore hath appointed several Ordinances to quicken and inflame us thereunto, such as prayer, hearing of the Word, and Sabbaths: now a gracious heart makes much of these, they are food and nourishment of the soul; how doth David long for them? Therefore men that live without the public Ordinances, or private and family duties, what argument can they have to conclude for grace in their hearts? for if that were in them and abounded, oh the zeal in all holy duties that would discover it self, knowing that the heart would grow cold, if these coals of […] were not poured on it. Those Plants would not grow, if there were not continual watering.
Eightly, Grace, where it is, makes a man diligent, fervent and conscientious in all the 1means of grace. God knoweth that grace in our hearts is like smoaking flax quickly put out; he therefore hath appointed severall Ordinances to quicken and inflame us thereunto, such as prayer, hearing of the Word, and Sabbaths: now a gracious heart makes much of these, they are food and nourishment of the soul; how doth David long for them? Therefore men that live without the publick Ordinances, or private and family duties, what argument can they have to conclude for grace in their hearts? for if that were in them and abounded, oh the zeal in all holy duties that would discover it self, knowing that the heart would grow cold, if these coales of 〈…〉 were not powred on it. Those Plants would not grow, if there were not continuall watering.
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In the next place, consider the excellent, and precious advantages or properties of grace. As,