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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 22
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 Proposition you have,
First, The Subject, The Kingdom of God. This is in other places called The Kingdom of Heaven, not respectu loci, in respect of the place where it is, for it is exercised on the earth, but respectu modi, because it is administered after an heavenly manner. It doth in the general signify that Regiment and Government which God exerciseth, either of glory in the Heavens, or of Grace in the hearts of his people; and by a Metonymy of the Adjunct for the Subject, it signifieth the Church, Mat. 13. 41. and by a Metonymy of the Effect for the efficient Cause instrumental, it signifieth the preaching of the Gospel, Mat. 13. 33. and by a Synecdoche of the genus for the more excellent species, it signifieth that peculiar time of renovation and restoration which was made in the Church by Christ and the Apostles, Matth. 3. 2. Mark 1. 14. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Hence the Kingdom of Heaven is never used in the Old Testament, but in the times of the Messiah only.
First, The Subject, The Kingdom of God. This is in other places called The Kingdom of Heaven, not respectu loci, in respect of the place where it is, for it is exercised on the earth, but respectu modi, because it is administred after an heavenly manner. It doth in the general signifie that Regiment and Government which God exerciseth, either of glory in the Heavens, or of Grace in the hearts of his people; and by a Metonymy of the Adjunct for the Subject, it signifieth the Church, Mat. 13. 41. and by a Metonymy of the Effect for the efficient Cause instrumental, it signifieth the preaching of the Gospel, Mat. 13. 33. and by a Synecdoche of the genus for the more excellent species, it signifieth that peculiar time of renovation and restauration which was made in the Church by Christ and the Apostles,