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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 94
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SERMON XCIV.
Showing that true Converts make Godliness their ordinary Practice; And what to walk in Gods Statutes implies.
Shewing that true Converts make Godlinesse their ordinary Practice; And what to walk in Gods Statutes implies.
EZEK. •6. 27. I will cause you to walk in my Statutes.
This latter part of the promise contained (as you have heard) grace in the fruit, and the exercise of it, I will cause you to walk, in my Statutes. To subdivide this Promise of actuating grace, consider the action promised, and the object about which it is conversant. The action promised, is, To walk. The object, My statutes. I shall speak only of the action vouchsafed, To walk. Its so known a thing, that I need not spend time, to enumerate places, that to walk doth denote the constant course, endeavour, and practice of a mans life, and that whether in good or evil. Many examples of Scripture might be produced, to evidence this, even as the word Way also in Scripture doth signify that Form of Doctrine, Worship, or manners a man accustometh himself to. And this expression of Walking is excellently transferred from the body to the soul; for by faith, love, and other graces, the soul walketh as well as the body, by fet, and doth signify not sudden fits, and transitory affections about Godliness, but a daily settled, steadfast, and unmoveable way in godliness: so that the Doctrine is: