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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 12 › Sermon 113
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SERMON CXIII.
Of Christians walking worthy of their Calling; what to walk worthy implies, and what are the Properties and Actions that will become and grace our holy Calling.
EPHES. 4. 1. I therefore the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the Vocation wherewith ye are called.
The Apostle in this Epistle, as for the most part in others, divideth his Discourse into two parts; The first whereof is didactical, informing and confirming in matters of Faith and Doctrine. The second is moral and practical, wholly tending to form us in a Christian and heavenly life. Now in the beginning of this Chapter, wherein my Text is the first verse, the Apostle betakes himself to an wholesome and savoury Exhortation, to live in the powerful expression of all the graces of Gods Spirit. And first, he layeth down his Exhortation in the general; and then instanceth in particulars.
THe Apostle in this Epistle, as for the most part in others, divideth his Discourse into two parts; The first whereof is didactical, informing and confirming in matters of Faith and Doctrine. The second is moral and practical, wholly tending to form us in a Christian and heavenly life. Now in the beginning of this Chapter, wherein my Text is the first verse, the Apostle betakes himself to an wholsome and savoury Exhortation, to live in the powerful expression of all the graces of Gods Spirit. And first, he layeth down his Exhortation in the general; and then instanceth in particulars.