A30243:1964
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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Secondly, In the next place, that may be called a mans particular way of sinning, which yet we cannot call his beloved sin. For it may be a great grief and torment 1to him, it may be a Tyrant usurping power over him, not the delight of his soul. Some say David was very prone to the sin of lying; its plain, that being in many straits by Saul, he used many unlawful shifts: Now this was an heavy burden to him, Deliver me from the way of lying, Psalm 119. •9. He doth earnestly pray against this Sin: And so in another place, Psalm 31. 10. He speaks of being kept from mine iniquity: so the godly may be more prone to fall into one sin then another; some into inordinate passion, some to cowardly fear, some to diffidence in the promises; yet these are not their beloved sins, but their hated enemies, they mourn and complain with Paul, That this Law of sin within them leadeth them Captives; They cry out, and say, Their souls suffer violence within them: No sin, but Christ, is the beloved of their souls; he is the chiefest of ten thousands; yet some corruption or other beateth them often down; they are more overtaken in such a corruption then in any; Therefore they say, This is my iniquity, this is the Saul that is always pursuing of me. Its necessary the godly should understand this difference between a sin beloved, and a sin violently tyrannizing over them: for this is most certain, whosoever giveth up himself willingly to one kind of sin, he is yet in the state of nature and wrath, he is not turned unto God.
Secondly, In the next place, that may be called a mans particular way of sinning, which yet we cannot call his beloved sin. For it may be a great grief and torment 1to him, it may be a Tyrant usurping power over him, not the delight of his soul. Some say David was very prone to the sin of lying; its plain, that being in many streights by Saul, he used many unlawfull shifts: Now this was an heavy burden to him, Deliver me from the way of lying, Psalme 119. •9. He doth earnestly pray against this Sinne: And so in another place,