A30243:1850
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 71
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Secondly, Lay this down for a rule, that it is not so much a friend, a father, a 1neighbour, as the devil in and by these that doth thus tempt thee to keep from God: For ⟨p. 434⟩such is his subtlety to destroy thee, that he layeth all baits, and useth the most likely instruments that may undo thee, as we see he did thus from the beginning: He doth not immediately set upon Adam, but upon Eve, and by her seduceth him. Oh, If Adam had perceived the Devil tempting him by her, How resolutely would he have gainsaid her? Rev. 10. It is said, The Devil should throw some of the Saints into prison, How so? The Devil would stir up the malice and venom of wicked men against them; especially this Truth is manifested by our Saviour when Peter took him aside, and dissuaded him from the suffering which he was to undergo; see what entertainment our Saviour giveth him, Get thee behind me Satan, for thou savourest not the things of God, Mat. 16. 23. Oh thus should thy zeal and anger work: It is not thy friend, thy father, thy husband, thy neighbour, but the Devil in all these, that seeks to destroy thy soul.
Secondly, Lay this down for a rule, that it is not so much a friend, a father, a 1neighbour, as the divel in and by these that doth thus tempt thee to keep from God: For ⟨p. 434⟩such is his subtilty to destroy thee, that he layeth all baits, and useth the most likely instruments that may undo thee, as we see he did thus from the beginning: He doth not imediately set upon Adam, but upon Eve, and by her seduceth him. Oh, If Adam had perceived the Divel tempting him by her, How resolutely would he have gainsaied her? Rev. 10. It is said, The Divel should throw some of the Saints into prison, How so? The Divel would stir up the malice and venom of wicked men against them; especially this Truth is manifested by our Saviour when Peter took him aside, and disswaded him from the suffering which he was to undergo; see what entertainment our Saviour giveth him, Get thee behinde me Satan, for thou savorest not the things of God,