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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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Fourthly, This Law is written in mens hearts, that so kingdoms and common-wealths, 1and all humane societies may be preserved: For if there were not Dictates about God and righteousness, Kingdoms would presently be turned into robberies, and horrid confusions. We admire, and that justly, the providence of God in bounding the waters, that they do not overwhelm the earth: but much more admirable is Gods power in preserving humane societies, that men are not Wolves and Tigers, committing all bloody outrages. What is the cause of this? No outward power or strength so much, as an inbred apprehension about a God, and a strong conviction of the conscience, what is righteous and just to be done; And therefore whensoever this hedge is broken down, the very floodgates of all wickedness is presently set open; and blessed be God, that hath put such a bridle in the mouth of Man, who by sin hath made himself so brutish.
Fourthly, This Law is written in mens hearts, that so kingdomes and common-wealths, 1and all humane societies may be preserved: For if there were not Dictates about God and righteousnesse, Kingdomes would presently be turned into robberies, and horrid confusions. We admire, and that justly, the providence of God in bounding the waters, that they do not overwhelm the earth: but much more admirable is Gods power in preserving humane societies, that men are not Wolves and Tygers, committing all bloody outrages. What is the cause of this? No outward power or strength so much, as an inbred apprehension about a God, and a strong conviction of the conscience, what is righteous and just to be done; And therefore whensoever this hedge is broken down, the very floodgates of all wickednesse is presently set open; and blessed be God, that hath put such a bridle in the mouth of Man, who by sinne hath made himself so bruitish.
- 14. That kingdoms and Common-wealths may be preserved.4. That kingdomes and Common-wealths may be preserved.