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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 31
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Thirdly, As outward wealth and increase are blessings, so they do belong by 1promise unto godliness; Godliness hath the promise of this life, and the li••, 1 Tim. 4. 8. Look over all temporal mercies that are in the Scripture, and you shall find them made only to the godly man. Hence these earthly […] ••ey are appendices to the Covenant of grace; when God promiseth to be our reconciled father, then he promiseth us also heaven and […], […] whatsoever […] for our good. I do not say with some Divines, That […] men have no right to their goods; That they are usurpers, and shall answer for every […] of […] they eat, as robbers and thieves: No, it is a dangerous po[…]on to hold […] […] on and right to be placed upon godliness. The earth […] given to the children of men, saith the Psalmist, to all men as well as to the […]ly; […] is a lawful, civil right, so there is a sanctified use, and […]. All wicked men shall indeed answer for every mo•sell of […], every […] of drink, every penny in the purse, but not as if they were th[…], only as […] did not improve all they had for the glory of God. This is also of […] to the godly, art thou poor, art thou despised, art thou imprisoned? The promise of wealth, honour, liberty, belongs to thee, as well as of pardon of sin and grace, only these are not so absolutely necessary; if they were as necessary as Christ, and grace, and heaven is, thou shouldest be no more without them then without these: Thou art rich in bonds and bills even wherein the Lord is obliged, though thou hast not the actual use of those good things.
Thirdly, As outward wealth and encrease are blessings, so they do belong by 1promise unto godlinesse; Godlinesse hath the promise of this life, and the li••, 1 Tim. 4. 8. Look over all temporall mercies that are in the Scripture, and you shall finde them made only to the godly man. Hence these earthly 〈…〉 ••ey are appendices to the Covenant of grace; when God promiseth to be our reconciled father, then he promiseth us also heaven and , whatsoeve for our good. I do not say with some Divines, That men have no right to their goods; That they are usurpers, and shall answer for every of they eat, as robbers and theeves: No, it is a dangerous poon to hold on and right to be placed upon godlinesse. The earth given to the children of men, saith the Psalmist, to all men as well as to the ly; is a lawfull, civil right, so there is a sanctified use, and . All wicked men shall indeed answer for every mosell of , every of drink, every peny in the purse, but not as if they were th, only as did not improve all they had for the glory of God. This is also of to the godly, art thou poor, art thou despised, art thou imprisoned? The promise of wealth, honour, liberty, belongs to thee, as well as of pardon of sin and grace, only these are not so absolutely necessary; if they were as necessary as Christ, and grace, and heaven is, thou shouldest be no more without them then without these: Thou art rich in bonds and bils even wherein the Lord is obliged, though thou hast not the actual use of those good things.