A30243:2395
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.
First, To walk uprightly. He that walketh uprightly, Prov. 10. 9. walketh boldly. Contrary to this is halting in the way of Godliness. The Apostle, Heb. 12. 13. 1exhorts them to make straight paths for their feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of ike way. Its not enough to be in the way of Godliness; All Hypocrites are so: but we must take heed we halt not between God and Baal, as the Scripture speaks. Judas was in Christs way, but he halted between Christ and the affections of the world. As the Heifers taken from their young ones, they went straight on with the Ark, but they bellowed and moaned for their young ones: so it may be thou art driven on in the external ways of holiness, but thou moanest, and thy heart runs after sin, or the world.
First, To walk uprightly. He that walketh uprightly, Prov. 10. 9. walketh boldly. Contrary to this is halting in the way of Godlinesse. The Apostle, Heb. 12. 13. 1exhorts them to make straight paths for their feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of ike way. Its not enough to be in the way of Godlinesse; All Hypocrites are so: but we must take heed we halt not between God and Baal, as the Scripture speaks. Judas was in Christs way, but he halted between Christ and the affections of the world. As the Heifers taken from their young ones, they went straight on with the Ark, but they bellowed and moaned for their young ones: so it may be thou art driven on in the external wayes of holinesse, but thou moanest, and thy heart runs after sin, or the world.
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