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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 3 › Sermon 19
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.
First, By way of concession, he reckons up the privileges they enjoyed, which are divers.
First, By way of concession, he reckons up the priviledges they enjoyed, which are divers.
1. Thou art called a Jew; Whereas the people of Israel formerly were called Israelites, after the captivity into Babylon they were called Jews, and in this they gloried, as among us some do in the name Christian.
2. He is said to rest in the Law, viz. as given by God to that Nation, which he had not done unto any other people, and he useth an emphatical word; They made the Law that to them which Christ should have been, a rest to their wearied souls.
2. He is said to rest in the Law, viz. as given by God to that Nation, which he had not done unto any other people, and he useth an emphaticall word; They made the Law that to them which Christ should have been, a rest to their wearied souls.
3. Thou makest thy boast in God: The Prophet speaks of glorying in God as a duty: but here it is a sin, for they boasted of him in a carnal, factious way, as their God; Even as the Heathen boasted of their God, (or as the Turks of Mahomet,) or as the Apostle of some Corinthians, who when others were for Paul, others for Apollo, these were for Christ, that is, they set up Christ in a way of party and faction against others.