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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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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.
6. He was confident of being a guide to the blind, a light, an instructor, a teacher, and that he had a form of the truth and knowledge of the law. The Apostle doth not take [Greek or Hebrew] in an ill sense, as in Timothy; for the Jew was not confident that he had but a form only, but [Greek or Hebrew] is here as much as [Greek or Hebrew] in another place, a method and way to inform others about the truth. Thus far is the concession of their Privileges.
6. He was confident of being a guide to the blinde, a light, an instructer, a teacher, and that he had a form of the truth and knowledge of the law. The Apostle doth not take 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in an ill sense, as in Timothy; for the Jew was not confident that he had but a form only, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is here as much as 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in another place, a method and way to inform others about the truth. Thus far is the concession of their Priviledges.