A30243:1801
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 9 › Sermon 69
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Fifthly, Therefore turn to God, because he is your God. God is the God of a people two ways, internally, when he changeth their hearts, and indeed bestoweth 1all spiritual privileges upon them; and thus he is a God only to those that have true grace; that are the Children of the promise, and according to the spirit: but then he is a God externally to all such who outwardly own him, and call upon him: A God by external Covenant and acceptation; and in this sense he is the God even of those that are the Children of Abraham, according to the flesh only. Now the scripture makes this external relation to be a ground why we should turn from our sins, Hosea 12. 6. Therefore turn thou to thy God; to thy God, the propriety is a ground of Conversion; and certainly the motives are very attractive which are drawn from this: You all by your Baptism have received God as your God; to be no more the Devils, or sins, or the worlds: if therefore thou hast Apostatized, and broken this Covenant, How necessary is it to return?
Fifthly, Therefore turn to God, because he is your God. God is the God of a people two waies, internally, when he changeth their hearts, and indeed bestoweth 1all spirituall priviledges upon them; and thus he is a God onely to those that have true grace; that are the Children of the promise, and according to the spirit: but then he is a God externally to all such who outwardly own him, and call upon him: A God by externall Covenant and acceptation; and in this sense he is the God even of those that are the Children of Abraham, according to the flesh onely. Now the scripture makes this externall relation to be a ground why we should turn from our sins, Hosea 12. 6. Therefore turn thou to thy God; to thy God, the propriety is a ground of Conversion; and certainly the motives are very attractive which are drawn from this: You all by your Baptisme have received God as your God; to be no more the Divels, or sins, or the worlds: if therefore thou hast Apostatized, and broken this Covenant, How necessary is it to re•urn?
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