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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 3 › Sermon 19
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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.
3. Thou makest thy boast in God: The Prophet speaks of glorying in God as a duty: but here it is a sinne, for they boasted of him in a carnall, 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.
4. The Jew did know Gods will, for to him it was revealed.
5. He discerned the things that were excellent, or profitable, or different, or ⟨p. 104⟩convenient, for all this the word will bear, if he was instructed out of the Law, as it were catechized.
5. He discerned the things that were excellent, or profitable, or differentt, or ⟨p. 104⟩convenient, for all this the word will bear, if he was instructed out of the Law, as it were catechized.