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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.
First, In the Object matter, if it be in matters useful and profitable. The Apostle 1condemneth disputations merely upon this, because they profit not, though they do not so visibly hurt and destroy, yet that is enough, if they do not profit. Disputare is as much as to cut off superfluous branches; Now if the disputation it self be a luxuriant branch, that must be cut off. The Scripture speaks of the 2acknowledgement of truth after godliness. All light in the understanding ought to produce heat and warmth in the affections.
First, In the Object matter, if it be in matters usefull and profitable. The Apostle 1condemneth disputations meerly upon this, because they profit not, though they do not so visibly hurt and destroy, yet that is enough, if they do not profit. Disputare is as much as to cut off superfluous branches; Now if the disputation it self be a luxuriant branch, that must be cut off. The Scripture speaks of the 2acknowledgement of truth after godlinesse. All light in the understanding ought to produce heat and warmth in the affections.