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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
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, Because this new heart promised in the Text, is nothing but that which in 1other places is called the image of God: Now the Apostle saith, The image of God, which is renewed in all converted persons, consists partly in righteousness, and partly in true holiness, Ephes. 4. 24. Holiness, that lieth properly in the things that belong to God. Righteousness, in the matters that belong to others: So that wheresoever the image of God is, there is Righteousness as well as Holiness; so that as we are called upon To be holy, as God is holy; so to be righteous is our duty, as God is righteous. The Scripture doth much celebrate this attribute of Gods righteousness, that his nature is righteous, his judgements, his word, his actions, yea all his ways: And now every converted man, labours to write after this copy: If then you see a man unjust, unconscionable and false in his ways, say, How is the image of God in this man? how is God the father of such an unrighteous man? Oh its not thy prayers, thy parts, thy abilities, all thy spiritual enlargements, can witness thee to have Gods image on thy soul, unless this also be accompanying thy conversion.
First, Because this new heart promised in the Text, is nothing but that which in 1other places is called the image of God: Now the Apostle saith, The image of God, which is renewed in all converted persons, consists partly in righteousness, and partly in true holiness, Ephes. 4. 24. Holiness, that lieth properly in the things that belong to God. Righteousness, in the matters that belong to others: So that wheresoever the image of God is, there is Righteousness as well as Holiness; so that as we are called upon To be holy, as God is holy; so to be righteous is our duty, as God is righteous. The Scripture doth much celebrate this attribute of Gods righteousness, that his nature is righteous, his judgements, his word, his actions, yea all his ways: And now every converted man, labors to write after this copy: If then you see a man unjust, unconscionable and false in his ways, say, How is the image of God in this man? how is God the father of such an unrighteous man? Oh its not thy prayers, thy parts, thy abilities, all thy spiritual inlargements, can witness thee to have Gods image on thy soul, unless this also be accompanying thy conversion.