A30243:1961
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 76
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The internal cause of a beloved sin is the complexion and bodily constitution of a 1man: For as one mans body inclines to choleric diseases, another to melancholic; so the very natural constitution, while a man is under the power of sin, hurrieth one way rather than another: Not that this excuseth a man, to say, its his inclination to do thus and thus, he cannot help it, for sanctifying grace will work in a man, a contrary inclination, put another predominant principle within him; and besides this doth not extenuate, but aggravate his sin; for the more it is rooted, and cleaveth to him, the more difficult will his recovery be; so then a mans peculiar sin, that he is most addicted unto, may arise from his bodily constitution, that may be a more prepared instrument for some vice rather than another. Or our darling sin 2may arise from some external causes, and they may be these.
The internall cause of a beloved sin is the complexion and bodily constitution of a 1man: For as one mans body inclines to cholerick diseases, another to melancholick; so the very natural constitution, while a man is under the power of sinne, hurrieth one way rather than another: Not that this excuseth a man, to say, its his inclination to do thus and thus, he cannot help it, for sanctifying grace will work in a man, a contrarie inclination, put another predominant principle within him; and besides this doth not extenuate, but aggravate his sin; for the more it is rooted, and cleaveth to him, the more difficult will his recoverie be; so then a mans peculiar sin, that he is most addicted unto, may arise from his bodily constitu•ion, that may be a more prepared instrument for some vice rather than another. Or our darling sinne 2may arise from some externall causes, and they may be these.
- 1The reason of the difference of darling sins in men. 1.
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