A30243:1944
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A TREATISE OF GRACE and ASSURANCE; Being CXX. SERMONS. › Section 9 › Sermon 75
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For 1. It will be more hard, because sin is every day hardening of a mans heart 1more: Now all hardness of heart makes turning to God more difficult: wax is sooner melted then cold Iron: Therefore saith the Apostle, To day if you will hear, harden not your hearts, Psal. 95. implying that every delay doth freeze the soul, and make it more benumbed: if thou art not fit to day, thou wilt be less fit then to morrow: and hence it is why men rooted in sin, and inveterate in old customary iniquities, do seldom change their black skins: the beginnings of a wound are to be healed; if you let it rankle and canker, then that groweth incurable at last. Oh then take up betimes; while there are any relentings, any meltings, go presently to God: If thou gettest cold after this heat, then thy disease will be more mortal.
For 1. It will be more hard, because sin is every day hardening of a mans heart 1more: Now all hardnesse of heart makes turning to God more difficult: wax is sooner melted then cold Iron: Therefore saith the Apostle, To day if you will hear, harden not your hearts, Psal. 95. implying that every delay doth freez the soul, and make it more benummed: if thou art not fit to day, thou wilt be lesse fit then to morrow: and hence it is why men rooted in sin, and inveterate in old customary iniquities, do seldom change their black skins: the beginnings of a wound are to be healed; if you let it rankle and canker, then that groweth incurable at last. Oh then take up betimes; while there are any relentings, any meltings, go presently to God: If thou gettest cold after this heat, then thy disease will be more mortall.
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