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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 22
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Sixthly, Take this Caution in the last place, That although the life of Religion and 1godliness lieth not in every truth, yet we ought not to despise or contemn the least truth or deny it. Paul withstood Peter to the face, in an error that did not seem so great; in Paul you have an example of zeal, and in Peter of patience to bear it; for Genus quoddam non ignobile est Martyrii, reprehensionem patienter far, It is a kind of glorious Martyrdom to receive a reproof patiently. Even the least truth is so precious, that Christ saith, Heaven and earth shall sooner pass away, then one iota or tittle of his word. Though truth for the matter of it may seem little, yet because it is the truth of the great God, therefore it ought not to be neglected; some have called every truth so far forth as it comes to be made known fundamental, as if a man would necessarily be damned if he did not receive it. But certainly truth is called fundamental, not from the manner of revelation, or means of knowledge, but from the nature and use of it.2
Sixthly, Take this Caution in the last place, That although the life of Religion and 1godlinesse lieth not in every truth, yet we ought not to despise or contemn the least truth or deny it. Paul withstood Peter to the face, in an error that did not seem so great; in Paul you have an example of zeal, and in Peter of patience to bear it; for Genus quoddam non ignobile est Martyrii, reprehensionem patienter ferre, It is a kind of glorious Martyrdom to receive a reproof patiently. Even the least truth is so precious, that Christ saith, Heaven and earth shall sooner passe away, then one iota or tittle of his word. Though truth for the matter of it may seem little, yet because it is the truth of the great God, therefore it ought not to be neglected; some have called every truth so far forth as it comes to be made known fundamental, as if a man would necessarily be damned if he did not receive it. But certainly truth is called fundamental, not from the manner of revelation, or means of knowledge, but from the nature and use of it.2
- 16. The least truth ought not to be contemned or denied.