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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 54
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ROM. 2. 15. Which show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, &c.
ROM. 2. 15. Which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, &c.
Having dispatched the nature, properties, and effects of inherent grace, I come (according to my Method) to detect two counterfeits of this, and they are Natural Honesty, and Moral virtue; for these two make a glorious show, and seem to be like the two great lights in the world, if humane reason may be judge, and I begin with natural honesty out of this Text.
HAving dispatched the nature, properties, and effects of inherent grace, I come (according to my Method) to detect two counterfeits of this, and they are Natural Honesty, and Moral virtue; for these two make a glorious shew, and seem to be like the two great lights in the world, if humane reason may be judge, and I begin with natural honesty out of this Text.
The Apostle in this Chapter brings in an heavy indictment and charge, both against Jew and Gentile, wrapping up all mankind in their winding sheet, as being dead in sin and iniquity; and whereas it might be objected verse 14. That the Gentiles cannot be found sinners, because where no law is, there is no transgression: He answereth this objection, informing us, That though the Gentiles were without a Law in some sense, yet not without it in another: They were without a Law written and promulged, as the Jews had, but not without a Law engrafted in their conscience, whereby they had common dictates about good and evil: Which Natural honesty was a Law to them in many things; And therefore they not having a Law, are a Law to themselves. This being the sum of the Answer, he illustrates this work of God in mens hearts naturally,