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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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Thus I have opened unto you the fountain and rise of all Righteousness and Equity between man and man.
Now let us consider, what are the grounds why converted persons are tender 1to do what is just and righteous; yea, the Doctrine may be heightened, They are not only tender about righteous things, but they are very conscionable to do them, though to their external loss. The Psalmist describing who shall ascend into the holy hill of Zion, a type of Heaven, giveth such Characters, most of which relate to duties of honesty and righteousness, Psal. 15. 2. 3, 4. Verity in words of assertion, and veracity in Promises and Oaths. Our Saviour is large Mat. 5. in convincing and heightening those duties against Murder, Adultery, Perjury, condemning all the subtle distinctions the Pharisees had invented to palliate their guilt. And you may read of Zacheus, when converted, the first thing that works upon his conscience is, to restore fourfold where he had wronged any: He went above the command of God, that required not so much; but a godly man is so tender in matters of wrong and injustice, that he had rather do above then under his duty.
Now let us consider, what are the grounds why converted persons are tender 1to do what is just and righteous; yea, the Doctrine may be heightned, They are not onely tender about righteous things, but they are very conscionable to do them, though to their external loss. The Psalmist describing who shall ascend into the holy hill of Sion, a type of Heaven, giveth such Characters, most of which relate to duties of honesty and righteousness, Psal. 15. 2. 3, 4. Verity in words of assertion, and veracity in Promises and Oathes. Our Saviour is large