A30243:1945
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 75
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2. Therefore it is more difficult if thou delay, because to thy natural hardness 1thou wilt add adventitious, and acquisite, Every man naturally hath a stone upon his heart, and grace must remove that in conversion; but when thou hast refused often to come at Gods call, then there is a second, and a third, yea many stones laid upon thee while thou art buried in the grave of thy sins; Oh then, woe be unto thee who dost make thy condition worse at last, then at first. Who knoweth if thou hadst regarded the first impressions, and motions of Gods spirit, but that thy condition had been more hopeful? Oh take heed of proving bankrupt in the way of sin; then the more thou spendest, the likelier to be cast into that dungeon out of which there can be no redemption. Take heed then of adding hardness to that which is inbred in thee: Thou hast enough to press thee into the lowest sea; thou needest not have more millstones hung about thy neck.
2. Therefore it is more difficult if thou delay, because to thy naturall hardnesse 1thou wilt add adventitious, and acquisite, Every man naturally hath a stone upon his heart, and grace must remove that in conversion; but when thou hast refused often to come at Gods call, then there is a second, and a third, yea many stones laid upon thee while thou art buried in the grave of thy sins; Oh then, wo be unto thee who dost make thy condition worse at last, then at first. Who knoweth if thou hadst regarded the first impressions, and motions of Gods spirit, but that thy condition had been more hopeful? Oh take heed of proving bankrupt in the way of sin; then the more thou spendest, the likelier to be cast into that dungeon out of which there can be no redemption. Take heed then of adding hardnesse to that which is inbred in thee: Thou hast enough to presse thee into the lowest sea; thou needest not have more milstones hung about thy neck.
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