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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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Contents › Section 6: Handling Grace as Gods Workmanship, and Good works as the end thereof.
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SECT. VI. Handling Grace as Gods Workmanship, and Good works as the end thereof.
SERMON XLVI. Ephes. 2. 10. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God had before ordained, that we should walk in them. The New-creature is Gods workmanship: Also its necessity and Dignity. SERMON XLVII. That God gives Grace to the most indisposed. SERMON XLVIII. Of Good works, What to be created unto Good works implies, and what works are good. SERMON XLIX. Setting forth divers Distinctions and Axioms to clear the Doctrine of Good works.
SECT. VII. Of the Sanctifying work of the Spirit under the nation of Grace, with the Counterfeit of it.
SERMON L. Hebr. 13. 9. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace. ⟨image 8⟩not with meats, that have not profited them that have been occupied therein. Of the hearts being established with Grace, and in what sense it is so. SERMON LI. Showing why Grace in the heart is better then unnecessary Disputes in the head, together with rules how to manage Disputes and Controversies without prejudice to Grace. SERMON LII. That there is a work of God upon a mans heart, which is called Grace: And why inward holiness is called Grace. SERMON LIII. Characters and Properties of a Gracious man. SERMON LIV.