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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 2 › Sermon 14
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SERMON XIIII.
That Opposition against and Abstinence from sin is a Sign of Grace.
1 JOH. 3. 9, 10. Whosoever is born of God sinneth not, because the seed abideth in him, neither can he sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifested.
1 JOH. 3. 9, 10. Whosoever is born of God sinneth not, because the seed abideth in him, neither can he sinne, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifested.
The Apostle at the first verse having declared the glorious privilege of being the sons of God, he doth vers. 3. mention also their Duty: for external grace and inherent are inseparably joined together. Their Duty is to avoid sin, which is pressed from several Arguments;
THe Apostle at the first verse having declared the glorious priviledge of being the sons of God, he doth vers. 3. mention also their Duty: for external grace and inherent are inseparably joined together. Their Duty is to avoid sin, which is pressed from several Arguments;