A30243:2008
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 78
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But this seemeth not so proper, because at this time God did hold out his Sceptre of Grace to them if they would come in, and turn from their evil ways. Now you may demand, Whether the Israelites did in plain and direct terms answer Jeremiah thus? For it might seem ⟨p. 470⟩improbable that they would acknowledge their way an evil way, and yet live in it: whereas they must needs do so, if they did in terminis thus refuse the Prophet; For (say they) we will walk every one in the imagination of his evil heart: Or whether doth not the Prophet say, They said so, because by their lives and conversations, wilfully persisting in their former impieties; They said thus by their actions, though not by their words? They might do both; for we see the Israelites sometimes telling Jeremiah to his face, That they would not do what God had commanded them by his mouth, Jer. 44. 16. a notable place to discover their avowed and open disobedience to God.
But this seemeth not so proper, because at this time God did hold out his Scepter of Grace to them if they would come in, and turn from their evill waies. Now you may demand, Whether the Israelites did in plain and direct terms answer Jeremiah thus? For it might seem ⟨p. 470⟩improbable that they would acknowledge their way an evil way, and yet live in it: whereas they must needs do so, if they did in terminis thus refuse the Prophet; For (say they) we will walk every one in the imagination of his evil heart: Or whether doth not the Prophet say, They said so, because by their lives and conversations, wilfully persisting in their former impieties; They said thus by their actions, though not by their words? They might do both; for we see the Israelites sometimes telling Jeremiah to his face, That they would not do what God had commanded them by his mouth, Jer. 44. 16. a notable place to discover their avowed and open disobedience to God.