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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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It must needs then be, that a converted person abounds in all righteousness, because his conscience is tender, Its An heart of flesh.
Fourthly, Therefore they walk righteously, because there are so many promises 1in Scripture made to righteousness: That must needs be a duty in an eminent ⟨p. 568⟩manner, to which so many great and glorious promises are annexed: Now you shall scarce find any action so encouraged by God, nor any men so much as righteous men: If a righteous man have but a little estate, yet that little is better then many riches of the wicked, Psal. 37. 16. To have great estates, to have large revenues in this world, and not by righteous ways, by fraud, oppression, violence, either by thy self or Ancestors, is like Jonahs gourd, that gave him some ease and shelter for a season, but presently there arose a worm within it that consumed it: So that a righteous man with his little Cottage, little morsel of bread, with his little cruise of drink, is better then rich Dives, that gets his wealth unjustly. The rich man may fare more deliciously every day; but the other fareth with more true joy. Lazarus may be glad of his crumbs, but Dives may be glad of the crumbs of his spiritual joy and contentation; yea, the righteous man hath that promise, which the greatest Potentate in the world 2hath not, Verse 22. The righteous shall never be forsaken, nor his seed begging bread▪ Thus you see righteousness hath Gods spiritual bonds for his outward happiness; and then for outward calamities, if they overtake a Nation, who is looked upon but a righteous man? Noah, a righteous man, and a preacher of righteousness, 2 Pet. 3. 5. God makes an Ark to save him: And from Lots example, see what a comfortable conclusion Peter maketh, The Lord knoweth how to deliver the righteous,