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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A TREATISE OF GRACE and ASSURANCE; Being CXX. SERMONS. › Section 1 › Sermon 1
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.
In the words you have a Duty enjoined. 2. The object matter of it, Which is illustrated from an absurd consequent, if this duty be neglected.
In the words you have a Duty enjoyned. 2. The object matter of it, Which is illustrated from an absurd consequent, if this duty be neglected.
The Duty is set home in two emphatical words [Greek or Hebrew], Examine your selves, and [Greek or Hebrew], Prove your selves. The former word doth in the general signify to take an experimental knowledge of any thing that is either uncertain, unknown or hidden. Hence that knowledge which we have by general arguments and abstracted reasons, cannot be called [Greek or Hebrew] an experimental knowledge. Now because, besides the bare knowledge, there may be also a good end or bad propounded in examination, therefore in an ill sense the word is applied to the devil and his instruments, and in a good sense to God, and here in the Text to our selves. It is further to be observed, that these words do imply that men are great strangers to themselves, and that so much self-love doth blind them, that they know not themselves. Again, These words also imply that there are certain Marks and Signs, whereby a man may come certainly to know what he is, ⟨image 13⟩[…] ⟨p. 1⟩[…] ⟨p. 2⟩otherwise this command would be in vain. To the same purpose is the word also [Greek or Hebrew] implieth a severe and diligent inquisition into our selves, so as to have a full experience of what is in us; hence Rom. 5. 5. [Greek or Hebrew] is used for experience.
The Duty is set home in two emphatical words 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Examine your selves, and , Prove your selves. The former word doth in the general signifie to take an experimental knowledge of any thing that is either uncertain, unknown or hidden. Hence that knowledge which we have by general arguments and abstracted reasons, cannot be called an experimental knowledge. Now because, besides the bare knowledge, there may be also a good end or bad propounded in examination, therefore in an ill sense the word is applied to the devil and his instruments, and in a good sense to God, and here in the Text to our selves. It is further to be observed, that these words do imply that men are great strangers to themselves, and that so much self-love doth blinde them, that they know not themselves. Again, These words also imply that there are certain Marks and Signs, whereby a man may come certainly to know what he is,