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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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Thirdly, Prosperity and abundance of ease and plenty in the committing of their sins, doth also make men lift up themselves presumptuously against God: Thus God 1by Jeremiah, I spake unto thee in thy prosperity, but thou wouldst not hear: and Solomon observeth it, because judgement was not presently executed, Therefore the heart of man was set in him to do wickedly, Eccles. 8 11. and David also takes notice of this, when being greatly troubled at the prosperity of the wicked, and relating all things are according to their hearts desires, he addeth, Therefore violence compasseth them as a chain, Psal. 73. 6. What was it that puffed up Nebuchadnezzar, so that he made himself as God, and Tyre and Sidon, that they set their hearts as God, but outward greatness? therefore success and prosperity in wickedness, makes men exceeding bold, even against God himself.
Thirdly, Prosperity and abundance of ease and plenty in the committing of their sins, doth also make men lift up themselves presumptuously against God: Thus God 1by Jeremiah, I spake unto thee in thy prosperity, but thou wouldst not hear: and Solemon observeth it, because judgement was not presently executed, Therefore the heart of man was set in him to do wickedly, Eccles. 8 11. and David also takes notice of this, when being greatly troubled at the prosperity of the wicked, and relating all things are according to their hearts desires, he addeth, Therefore violence compasseth them as a chain, Psal. 73. 6. What was it that puffed up Nebuchadnezzar, so that he made himself as God, and Tyre and Sidon, that they set their hearts as God, but outward greatnesse? therefore successe and prosperity in wickednesse, makes men exceeding bold, even against God himself.
- 13. Prosperity and abundance of ease.