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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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Contents › Section 9: Of the work of Grace under the Notion of Conversion or Turning unto God.
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SECT. IX. Of the work of Grace under the Notion of Conversion or Turning unto God.
SERMON LXVI. Ezek. 33. 11. Say unto them, As I live faith the Lord God, I have no pleasure ⟨image 9⟩in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live: Wherefore turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; For why will ye dye, O house of Israel. Showing, that the damnation of wicked men, is unpleasing to God, and that which he delights not in. SERMON LXVII. Divers Propositions or Considerations introductory to the Doctrine of Conversion. SERMON LXVIII. The impediments and obstruction of Conversion; and what kind of persons are most unlikely ever to be converted; not to drive them to despair, but to awaken them out of their security. SERMON LXIX. The motives and grounds of our turning unto God. SERMON LXX. Answering some prejudices and cavils of ungodly men against conversion or turning unto God. SERMON LXXI. That ungodly Friends and Relations are great hindrances of ones Conversion: With some helps or directions to those that are thereby kept in their sins. SERMON LXXII. Some Helps and Encouragements to those that are discouraged, because of the fruitlessness of their Resolutions to repent, or the heinousness of their sins. SERMON LXXIII. Jer. 18. 11. Thus saith the Lord, Behold I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: Return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. Of Gods framing and devising evil of Calamities, that men might turn from their evil doings: Also, what Gods framing and devising evil implies; and why judgements and afflictions, which are the good effects of Gods Justice, Wisdom and Power, are called evil. SERMON LXXIV. Of Afflictions, the difference between penal destructive calamities,