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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 33
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The Difficulty, and in some sense impossibility of Salvation notwithstanding the easiness which men fancy to themselves thereof.
MAT. 19. 2• When the Disciples heard this, they were astonished, saying, Who then can be saved?
Having in several instances discovered the weakness of those props, which most lean upon in reference to Salvation, I shall conclude this matter with a discourse upon the Disciples pathetical exclamation in the Text, Who then can be saved?
HAving in several instances discovered the weaknesse of those props, which most lean upon in reference to Salvation, I shall conclude this matter with a discourse upon the Disciples pathetical exclamation in the Text, Who then can be saved?
In the verse precedent, we have mention made of one, who had good wishes and desires for heaven, but being put by our Saviour upon an exploratory duty, it proved like jealousy water to him, discovering his rottenness; he was a spurious brood of the Eagle, for he was not able to endure these pure Sun-beams, He went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions. It doth not say, for he loved them, but he had them, it being very difficult to have these things, and not immoderately love them: they were [Greek or Hebrew] indeed, because they possessed him, rather then he possessed them. He had much wealth, as we say, a man hath a fever, when that hath him, destroying and wasting his health. Upon this we have our Saviour uttering a strange and paradoxical speech to flesh and blood, Christs words were miracles as well as his works, It is hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: compare this with