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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A TREATISE OF GRACE and ASSURANCE; Being CXX. SERMONS. › Section 12 › Sermon 106
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.
Secondly, Its requisite, because a Minister is to divide the Word aright, [Greek or Hebrew] 1which cannot be without the help of those arts, Logic and Rhetoric, which are properly subservient to that end; for although it be the Spirit of God that helpeth us to the sense of the Scripture in a spiritual saving way, we are not by our wit able to believe it, to apply it, to conform to it; yet as its a Text consisting of words, and a coherence to make up the sense; so the instrumental way to discover that, is by the help of the arts, and therefore those that are unlearned they are said to wrest the Scripture, 2 Pet. 3. 18. to mangle and torture them to their own destruction.
Secondly, Its requisite, because a Minister is to divide the Word aright, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 1which cannot be without the help of those arts, Logick and Rhetorick, which are properly subservient to that end; for although it be the Spirit of God that helpeth us to the sense of the Scripture in a spiritual saving way, we are not by our wit able to believe it, to apply it, to conform to it; yet as its a Text consisting of words, and a coherence to make up the sense; so the instrumental way to discover that, is by the help of the arts, and therefore those that are unlearned they are said to wrest the Scripture, 2 Pet. 3. 18. to mangle and torture them to their own destruction.
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Thirdly, The adversaries are learned, and every Minister ought to be able to gain-say 1