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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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Contents: A Table of the Texts and Contents of each SERMON in this TREATISE.
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A Table of the Texts and Contents of each SERMON in this TREATISE.
SECT. I. The Doctrine of Assurance and Signs.
SECT. I. THe Doctrine of Assurance and Signes.
SERMON I, II. 2 Corinth. 13. 5. Examine your selves whether ye be in the faith, prove your own selves, &c. How necessary and advantageous the Assurance of our being in the state of Grace is. SERMON III. Whether hypocrites may not attain to some measure of practical Knowledge in matters of Religion. SERMON IV. That Assurance may be had. SERMON V. Handleth the adjuncts of Assurance, viz. The Possibility, Excellency, Difficulty, and Necessity of having it. SERMON VI. Showeth the difference between true Assurance and Presumption. SERMON VII. Containeth Remedies against carnal Confidence, with Directions to the Godly that mourn under the sense of the want of Gods favour. And why God doth deny Assurance, where he hath given Grace. SERMON VIII. Holdeth forth divers Propositions and distinctions about Marks and Assurance. ⟨image 5⟩SERMON IX, X. Showing the lawfulness and duty of proceeding by way of Signs: And proving that inherent gracious Qualifications within a man, evidence his Justification. And answering many Doubts about Signs. SERMON XI. Showeth how many ways men may miscarry in the work of Self-Examination by Signs.