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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 95
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Now let us see, why the godly are so careful and tender about Gods worship.1
- 1Why the godly are so tender about Gods worship. 1.
And first it is, Because God himself is so tender about it. There is no sin about which Gods jealousy is so much said to he provoked, as in matter of false worship: Read the Prophets, you shall see the great controversy God had with his people, was for the corrupting of his worship; This in every Chapter is almost complained of; therefore the common word the Scripture useth for Idolatry and false worship is Abomination: And Christ using that expression, What is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination unto God, speaketh it chiefly to that pharisaical instituted worship, wherein they did place all their righteousness; now this, that was so highly advanced as the only religion and serving of God, was abomination unto him: Seeing therefore that Gods worship is the apple of his eye; the main thing he is so jealous about, and his judgements have been so terrible upon men, who have in any manner violated his order about religious things; as his punishing Nadab and Abihu for offering with strange fire, and striking Uzzah dead for not keeping merely to order, makes a godly man very careful about the worship of God, to see he giveth nothing but that and all that which God requireth.
And first it is, Because God himself is so tender about it. There is no sin about which Gods jealousie is so much said to he provoked, as in matter of false worship: Reade the Prophets, you shall see the great controversie God had with his people, was for the corrupting of his worship; This in every Chapter is almost complained of; therefore the common word the Scripture useth for Idolatry and false worship is Abomination: And Christ using that expression, What is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination unto God, speaketh it chiefly to that pharisaical instituted worship, wherein they did place all their righteousnesse; now this, that was so highly advanced as the onely religion and serving of God, was abomination unto him: Seeing therefore that Gods worship is the apple of his eye; the main thing he is so jealous about, and his judgements have been so terrible upon men, who have in any manner violated his order about religious things; as his punishing Nadab and Abihu for offering with strange fire, and striking Uzzah dead for not keeping meerly to order, makes a godly man very carefull about the worship of God, to see he giveth nothing but that and all that which God requireth.