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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 98
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Secondly, It supposeth, that we cannot so much as prepare, and fit our selves to 1receive Grace. God finds an heart of stone in every man, and a stone is impenetrable. It was a Doctrine received a long while, Facienti quoá in se est, Deus dat Gratiam, though differently explained. Let a man do what he can by natural strength and power, and then God will vouchsafe Grace and supernatural Mercies to him; yea this is too much divulged at this very day; let a man use his Naturals well, and God will give Supernaturals; but first there is no such Promise in all the Scripture; you cannot in all the Scripture find any Promise of Grace made to Nature, or the improvement of Nature; God no where saith, Do as much as you can, what you are able by your own power, and then I will come and help you. There is no such Promise in Scripture, but either it is absolute, as you have heard, or else Conditional to some Grace wrought by God already in us.
Secondly, It supposeth, that we cannot so much as prepare, and fit our selves to 1receive Grace. God findes an heart of stone in every man, and a stone is impenetrable. It was a Doctrine received a long while, Facienti quoá in se est, Deus dat Gratiam, though differently explained. Let a man doe what he can by naturall strength and power, and then God will vouchsafe Grace and supernaturall Mercies to him; yea this is too much divulged at this very day; let a man use his Naturals well, and God will give Supernaturals; but first there is no such Promise in all the Scripture; you cannot in all the Scripture finde any Promise of Grace made to Nature, or the improvement of Nature; God no where saith, Doe as much as you can, what you are able by your own power, and then I will come and help you. There is no such Promise in Scripture, but either it is absolute, as you have heard, or else Conditional to some Grace wrought by God already in us.
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