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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 1 › Sermon 2
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So neither do thou believe thy estate to be good and sound, unless thou mayest see and feel the efficacy of Christ in his Ordinances upon thee. Austin speaks 1experimentally of this fatness and sweetness in Gods Ordinances, Aliquando intromittis me Domine in affectum multum inusitntum introrsus, ad nescio quam dulcedinem, quae si perficiatur in me, nescio quid erit, quod vita ista non erit.
So neither do thou believe thy estate to be good and sound, unlesse thou mayest see and feel the efficacy of Christ in his Ordinances upon thee. Austin speaks 1experimentally of this fatness and sweetness in Gods Ordinances, Aliquando intromittis me Domine in affectum multum inusitntum introrsus, ad nescio quam dulcedinem, quae si perficiatur in me, nescio quid erit, quod vita ista non erit.
- 1Austin. lib. 10. Confess. cap. 40.Austin. lib. 10. Confes. cap. 40.
Secondly, By this practical knowledge and exercise thou wilt be taken off from 1all needless and vain disputations in matters of Religion, and wilt be more solicitous at home in thy own heart. In former times when the people of God were busy about the touch stone and trial of grace in themselves, they did not launch out into such deep and unprofitable Questions, but now of late since believers have busied themselves in disputes and controversies, and new opinions, this practical knowledge of grace is much neglected, you shall find men sooner disputing about faith then living by faith, talking of heavenly-mindedness then being so indeed. Thus the trees in Gods garden sprout up into suckers and barren boughs, and bear •ittle fruit upon them,