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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 11 › Sermon 91
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Secondly, Men that perform outward Obedience from inward principles, they do 1it with delight and joy. There is nothing so pleasing and connatural to them. All principles have a kind of delight in their connatural actions and objects. Thus the voluptuous principle is for the pleasures of the flesh, the ambitious principle for honours and earthly greatness, and the godly principle is for holiness and godliness. David how often doth he profess his delights, and even ravishments in the Ordinances of God, and the enjoying of him! Christ called it His meat and drink to do the will of his Father; and why? because the Law of God was written within his heart. Indeed the godly sometimes find dullness, listlessness, and even a wearisomeness upon them in the ways of God. But yet their main and chief delight of soul is in God and the Ordinances that lead to him, rather then in any thing else; Thou hast put more gladness into my heart, then they have had, when their wine and oil increaseth, Psal. 4.
Secondly, Men that perform outward Obedience from inward principles, they do 1it with delight and joy. There is nothing so pleasing and connatural to them. All principles have a kinde of delight in their connatural actions and objects. Thus the voluptuous principle is for the pleasures of the flesh, the ambitious principle for honours and earthly greatness, and the godly principle is for holinesse and godliness. David how often doth he profess his delights, and even ravishments in the Ordinances of God, and the enjoying of him! Christ called it His meat and drink to do the will of his Father; and why? because the Law of God was written within his heart. Indeed the godly sometimes finde dulnesse, listlesness, and even a wearisomness upon them in the wayes of God. But yet their main and chief delight of soul is in God and the Ordinances that lead to him, rather then in any thing else; Thou hast put more gladnesse into my heart, then they have had, when their wine and oyl increaseth, Psal. 4.
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