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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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Fourthly, This Absolute Promise is sure and certain: For there is Truth in God, 1and so he cannot lie; and there is Power in God, and so there cannot be any thing to hinder him, Heaven and Earth shall sooner pass away, then one Iowa or Tittle of this Promise fall to ground. How angry was God with Sarah, because through unbelief she laughed when God told her in her Old-age, she should conceive and bring forth a Child? Do not thou think thy heart, thy lusts are too strong, too naught for God to conquer and subdue? Now the ground why this Promise is so sure, and cannot be frustrated, is, because it is the execution of Gods Election from ⟨p. 577⟩all Eternity; and the Election of God, that is Absolute, and that cannot be frustrated; Read Rom. 11. where the Apostle in a grave and profitable way handling this sublime Mystery of Predestination; he argueth, That Gods Will and Purpose must take effect, Election hath obtained, and it will obtain; If then the Election of God be Absolute, and that must stand, then the Promise of Conversion, which is nothing but a gracious Manifestation of this Election, must also be Absolute. And this shall suffice for clearing the Nature of this Absolute Promise; but because this Doctrine is subject to carnal Cavils, I shall Answer one or two Objections which a froward Heart not humbly submitting to the Authority of Scripture, is apt to raise. And
Fourthly, This Absolute Promise is sure and certain: For there is Truth in God, 1and so he cannot lie; and there is Power in God, and so there cannot be any thing to hinder him, Heaven and Earth shall sooner passe away, then one Iowa or Tittle of this Promise fall to ground. How angry was God with Sarah, because through unbelief she laughed when God told her in her Old-age, she should conceive and bring forth a Childe? Do not thou think thy heart, thy lusts are too strong, too naught for God to conquer and subdue? Now the ground why this Promise is so sure, and cannot be frustrated, is, because it is the execution of Gods Election from ⟨p. 577⟩