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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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Fourthly, The word doth imply a giving the preeminence and excellency to those things that beseem this calling; That we mind this in the first place. Many they 1attend to keep up their state, their pomp, their pedigree; but the true godly man, he seeketh this in the first place, how he may adorn that holy profession, [Greek or Hebrew] from [Greek or Hebrew], and is properly from that side of the scales or balance that weighs down the other; so it is here: Those things that become this holy calling, that make for the glory of it, they should weigh down all other thoughts and affections: whatsoever is chief, precious and vigorous in thee, it should go to glorify this heavenly calling. So that this shameth those, who never seriously consider nor meditate, what this Christian profession binds them to; As Nehemiah said, Shall such a man as I flee? He thought it a great dishonour to him, whatsoever it might be to others. And so do thou reflect, Shall such an one as I swear, curse, deal unjustly, be proud and earthly? Oh when thou hast been overcome with such things! say truly to thy self, that which Michal did falsely to David, Thou hast made thy self like one of the vile and base ones of the earth. Thus you have heard what the word [Greek or Hebrew] worthy doth imply.2
Fourthly, The word doth imply a giving the preheminence and excellency to those things that beseem this calling; That we minde this in the first place. Many they 1attend to keep up their state, their pomp, their pedigree; but the true godly man, he seeketh this in the first place, how he may adorn that holy profession, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 from 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and is properly from that side of the scales or balance that weighs down the other; so it is here: Those things that become this holy calling, that make for the glory of it, they should wiegh down all other thoughts and affections: whatsoever is chief, precious and vigorous in thee, it should go to glorifie this heavenly calling. So that this shameth those, who never seriously consider nor meditate, what this Christian profession binds them to; As Nehemiah said, Shall such a man as I flee? He thought it a great dishonour to him, whatsoever it might be to others. And so do thou reflect, Shall such an one as I swear, curse, deal unjustly, be proud and earthly? Oh when thou hast been overcome with such things! say truly to thy self, that which Michal did falsly to David, Thou hast made thy self like one of the vile and base ones of the earth. Thus you have heard what the word worthy doth imply.