A30243:2385
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
That a Man Converted makes Godliness his constant, ordinary practice.
That a Man Converted makes Godlinesse his constant, ordinary practice.
Its a walking, yea the Scripture calls it, [Greek or Hebrew], Ephes. 2. 10. To walk round 1and round in the whole circle of good works. All Christians are of the Peripatetic Sect in this sense, Gal. ul•. The word to walk is [Greek or Hebrew], (who walk after this Rule) and that denoteth an exact methodical walking, as in a word a man doth carefully put one letter after another to make sense; but the opening of particulars will give life to this matter: Let us therefore, first consider, what is implied in this expression or Metaphor, to walk in Gods Statutes. And,
Its a walking, yea the Scripture cals it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Ephes. 2. 10. To walk round 1and round in the whole circle of good works. All Christians are of the Peripatetick Sect in this sense, Gal. ul•. The word to walk is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, (who walk after this Rule) and that denoteth an exact methodical walking, as in a word a man doth carefully put one letter after another to make sense; but the opening of particulars will give life to this matter: Let us therefore, first consider, what is implyed in this expression or Metaphor, to walk in Gods Statutes. And,
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