A30243:1670
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 8 › Sermon 64
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SERMON. LXIV.
The counterfeits of Sanctification. That Devotion, in superstitious Customs, or Gods own Ordinances, or being externally in Covenant with God, do not really sanctify a man.
The counterfeits of Sanctification. That Devotion, in superstitious Customes, or Gods own Ordinances, or being externally in Covenant with God, do not really sanctifie a man.
1 COR. 6. 11. And such were some of you, but ye are Sanctified, &c.
1 COR. 6. 11. And such were some of you, but ye are Sadctified, &c.
You have heard the nature and properties of Sanctification: Now let us discuss the counterfeits of it: for there are many things in Christianity which people do generally trust in, as if they had power to sanctify them, in the mean while neglecting wholly true and real Sanctification. This point is of great consequence, if men would diligently attend to it: For as it was generally received among the Jews, that the Temple & Sacrifices did sanctify them, though their lives were full of wickedness: So there is scarce any one Christian, but thinketh his Baptism, his Christianity, the Gospel, these do sanctify him. And as among the Jews, this principle engrafted in their hearts, was that bitter root which made all things else bitter; so it is now among Christians. Let us go over in particular those abused instruments for sanctification.