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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 10 › Sermon 85
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There are three kinds of Dreams, Natural, Diabolical, by way of delusion: or Supernatural, immediately raised in men by God. In such a way God 1formerly did inform men sometimes: Thus Jacob laying his head on a stone, had a dream; and Joseph a dream about his Superiority over his Brethren, Gen. 48. 12. yea, Pilates wife had a dream, which she told Pilate, that he should have nothing to do with that just man, to shed his innocent blood, Mat. 27. 19. But that is disputed, whether the Devil did not put that dream into her, because he would not have Christ crucified, knowing that by Christs death, his Kingdom would be dissolved; But how doth that agree with Satan's entering into Judas heart, tempting him to betray his Master. There were two great Kings, and Heathens, such as had no knowledge of God, and yet God did visit them by dreams, of things to come; as Pharaoh by seven years of barrenness, and seven of fruitfulness; Nebuchadnezzar of the change of his Kingdom, and the mighty alienation of it in time: But these did not understand them, till Joseph, and Daniel, revealed the mystery to them.
There are three kindes of Dreams, Natural, Diabolical, by way of delusion: or Supernatural, immediately raised in men by God. In such a way God 1formerly did inform men sometimes: Thus Iacob laying his head on a stone, had a dream; and Ioseph a dream about his Superiority over his Brethren, Gen. 48. 12. yea, Pilates wife had a dream, which she told Pilate, that he should have nothing to do with that just man, to shed his innocent blood, Mat. 27. 19. But that is disputed, whether the Devil did not put that dream into her, because he would not have Christ crucified, knowing that by Christs death, his Kingdom would be dissolved; But how doth that agree with Satans entring into Iudas heart, tempting him to betray his Master. There were two great Kings, and Heathens, such as had no knowledge of God, and yet God did visit them by dreams, of things to come; as Pharaoh by seven years of barrenness, and seven of fruitfulness; Nebuchadnezzar of the change of his Kingdom, and the mighty alienation of it in time: But these did not understand them, till Ioseph, and Daniel, revealed the mystery to them.