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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 96
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I Am now upon the latter general Branch, into which the whole work of Conversion divideth it self. Religion to God, and Righteousness to man, are the two pillars upon which this spiritual Temple is sustained: God hath put these two together, yet how often doth the Devil and mans corruption divide them! some attend wholly to the Religious Worship of God, but are grossly neglective of righteous and just things; others glory much in their righteousness to man, but show no piety at all in their lives to God. Now where God giveth this new heart, there is a tender conscience of both: And the first hath been dispatched, under the notion of Statutes, which strictly taken, relateth to the purity of Gods instituted Worship.
I Am now upon the latter general Branch, into which the whole work of Conversion divideth it self. Religion to God, and Righteousness to man, are the two pillars upon which this spiritual Temple is sustained: God hath put these two together, yet how often doth the Devil and mans corruption divide them! some attend wholly to the Religious Worship of God, but are grosly neglective of righteous and just things; others glory much in their righteousness to man, but shew no piety at all in their lives to God. Now where God giveth this new heart, there is a tender conscience of both: And the first hath been dispatched, under the notion of Statutes, which strictly taken, relateth to the purity of Gods instituted Worship.
We come to the second particular; viz. Righteousness and Equity to man, contained in these words, Keep my judgements, and do them: It cannot be denied, but that the word Judgement in the Scripture, is of a vast and large signification, which I shall not enumerate at this time: Here I take it strictly and distinctly, as in other places, for obedience to those Laws of God, which contain righteousness and equity between man & man; in which sense the Prophets often call upon the Israelites, To do judgement, and justice, and to break off the ways of violence, oppression, wrong, and all unrighteousness. So that we may observe: