A30243:3087
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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Nature: Its corruptions set forth, 212 Its principles, &c. vid. Heathen.
NAture: Its corruptions set forth, 212 Its principles, &c. vid. Heathen.
New Birth, vid. Regeneration. New-Creature. New-creature. The nature of grace set out by it: Its Necessity, 245 Is produced only by God, 251 His glorious Attributes appear in it, 255 What it doth not imply, and to what it is opposed, 258, &c. Its supernaturality and excellency set out, 264 Objections against it answered, 270 Counterfeits of it, an outward form of godliness, &c. 276 Helps and directions to the attainment of it, 280 Gods workmanship, 283 Created unto good works, 296
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Obedience unto Gods commands, A sure sign of grace, 61, &c. How impossible, 62 How possible, 63 When true and universal, 64, &c. External only not sufficient, 161