A30243:828
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 30
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.
Fifthly, This secure confidence is not fill[…] […] a Evangelical in its operation: It is not spiritual and in[…]: they are not hereby ca[…] out to ob•• Gods commandments, 1out of lov• and delight in God: love apprehend by […]vil• […]sh dispositions, makes them more d[…], they turn the grace of God i[…] wantonness, and make […] lov• aboundeth: But love shed abroad in the hea•• of G[…], it works Evangelically, graciously, d[…] to become like God, w[…] us. Having these Promises ([…] the Apo[…]) let […] cleanse our selves from all filthiness. 2 Cor. 7. 1. The promises were, That God would be our God and Father: So then, conf[…] of Gods love in an unregenerate hear, is like some unkind influences of the stars, that cause diseases and pu•i•factions. When Papists o[…] against […] assurance, that it b•ee•s contempt, neglect of means, and d[…], We Answer, Presumption indeed •oth, and a vain p[…], which wi•••d men have of Gods love; but in the godly it breedeth a […] like […], and holy f•ar to displease that God, whose goodness we so […] taste of. Examine therefore what the operations of this confidence are upon thee: D[…] thou her by take liberty in the ways of […]? This is ungodly.
Fifthly, This secu•e confidence is not fil〈…〉 〈…〉 a Evangelical in its operation: It is not spiritual and in〈…〉: they are not hereby ca〈…〉 out to ob•• Gods commandements,