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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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Thirdly, Therefore the people of God are careful of worship, and that only which God hath commanded, because they are a spiritual heavenly people, endowed with knowledge 1and wisdom out of Gods word, and so able to discern of things that differ. The Apostle Col. 4. useth this argument against observation of superstitious worship, which he had spoken against in the Chapter before, If ye be risen again with Christ, seek those things that are above, and set your affections on things above; which Calvin doth solidly understand, not only of lusts and earthly things, but also of those humane Ordinances and will-worship he had immediately spoken ⟨p. 563⟩of before; so that he is of a brutis, blind mind, an unclean beast that never cheweth the cud, who doth not consider and well advise about the worship of God, but takes every thing out of custom, and what is obtruded upon him; but a godly man is of a more noble rational spirit, he will search the Scripture whether such things are to be done or no.
Thirdly, Therefore the people of God are carefull of worship, and that only which God hath commanded, because they are a spiritual heavenly people, endowed with knowledge 1and wisdom out of Gods word, and so able to discern of things that differ. The Apostle Col. 4. useth this argument against observation of superstitious worship, which he had spoken against in the Chapter before, If ye be risen again with Christ, seek those things that are above, and set your affections on things above; which Calvin doth solidly understand, not only of lusts and earthly things, but also of those humane Ordinances and will-worship he had immediately spoken ⟨p. 563⟩of before; so that he is of a brutis, blinde minde, an unclean beast that never cheweth the cud, who doth not consider and well advise about the worship of God, but takes every thing out of custom, and what is obtruded upon him; but a godly man is of a more noble rational spirit, he will search the Scripture whether such things are to be done or no.