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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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Obs. That there are some men, who though they hear never so much of their duty to turn from their sins unto God, yet are wilfully resolved to continue in the same. It 1was not Jeremiahs portion only, or the Prophets and Apostles in former times, but in all ages the Ministry of God meets with such incorrigible and desperate hearers. Let the word of God sound as terribly, as that Trumpet will at the day of judgement: Let all ways be used, Johns austerity, or Christs meekness: the mountains of their sins cannot be removed into a sea of tears, and godly sorrow. Do we not every day see this fulfilled? How few are the hearers that come with this purpose, and prayer unto God, that they may go out from Gods presence, cleansed from their leprosy? That they who came swine, may return sheep? That they who came Crows, may go home Doves? This undoeth you, that you come not to hear, that ye may be changed, made other men, but build still upon your old rotten foundation.
Obs. That there are some men, who though they hear never so much of their duty to turn from their sins unto God, yet are wilfully resolved to continue in the same. It 1was not Jeremiahs portion onely, or the Prophets and Apostles in former times, but in all ages the Ministrie of God meets with such incorrigible and desperate hearers. Let the word of God sound as terribly, as that Trumpet will at the day of judgement: Let all waies be used, Johns austerity, or Christs meeknesse: the mountains of their sins cannot be removed into a sea of tears, and godly sorrow. Do we not every day see this fulfilled? How few are the hearers that come with this purpose, and prayer unto God, that they may go out from Gods presence, cleansed from their leprosie? That they who came swine, may return sheep? That they who came Crows, may go home Doves? This undoeth you, that you come not to hear, that ye may be changed, made other men, but build still upon your old rotten foundation.
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