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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, They that walk worthy of his calling, they are endued with magnanimous and high resolutions suitable thereunto. They are said to be born of God; Fortes creantur 1fortibus. They resemble their father of whom they are born; Doth earthly greatness and nobility make men put themselves in a different behaviour and deportment from those that are of an inferior breed? we say, Such a man showeth his breeding, he is a Gentleman every inch of him; How much rather may we say, Such a man showeth his Christianity, He is a Christian in every particular, you may know who is his father, he scorneth to debase himself by sin? yet many men think the only gallantry in the world lieth in the beastly pleasures of the flesh; Thus while they think themselves more then other men, they make themselves worse then the very beasts. Remember thy Christianity, and that will raise up thy heart to things that are indeed glorious and excellent; to mortify thy passions, to conquer thy lusts, to have fellowship and communion with God in holy duties, to be above the allurements or discouragements of the world, to fear nothing but sin; these are magnanimous and generous things, and such only they do, who walk worthy of this calling.
Fourthly, They that walk worthy of his calling, they are endued with magnanimous and high resolutions sutable thereunto. They are said to be born of God; Fortes creantur 1fortibus. They resemble their father of whom they are born; Doth earthly greatnesse and nobility make men put themselves in a different behaviour and deportment from those that are of an inferiour breed? we say, Such a man sheweth his breeding, he is a Gentleman every inch of him; How much rather may we say, Such a man sheweth his Christianity, He is a Christian in every particular, you may know who is his father, he scorneth to debase himself by sinne? yet many men think the only gallantry in the world lieth in the beastly pleasures of the flesh; Thus while they think themselves more then other men, they make themselves worse then the very beasts. Remember thy Christianity, and that will raise up thy heart to things that are indeed glorious and excellent; to mortifie thy passions, to conquer thy lusts, to have fellowship and communion with God in holy duties, to be above the allurements or discouragements of the world, to fear nothing but sinne; these are magnanimous and generous things, and such only they do, who walk worthy of this calling.