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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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3. The impossibility of it is seen in those sly insinuating motions of lust that do still ⟨p. 199⟩1abide in the heart of the most holy men. Insomuch that it is a wonder all the sweet fruit of thy soul is not quite eaten up with these worms that breed in them, all godly men consumed by those motions and sparks of sin, that are not yet extinct. James doth excellently describe the subtle working of original corruption, Jam. 1. 14: it doth [Greek or Hebrew] entice a man away, with a sweet or profitable bait hiding the hook, and it doth [Greek or Hebrew] draw the heart aside from considering all those arguments and motives that would make him forbear sin; now that this spawn of sin which would quickly prove Serpents and Cockatrices, is not destroyed, appeareth by Paul Rom. 7. How strong and unruly doth he find those remainders of sin in him, that were it not for Gods grace ready at hand to heal him, Pauls soul would quickly become as noisome through spiritual sores, as Jobs body through bodily ulcers. Its a wonder then that every man is not a Cain, a Judas, considering what fuel there is in every mans heart.
3. The impossibility of it is seen in those slie insinuating motions of lust that do still ⟨p. 199⟩1abide in the heart of the most holy men. Insomuch that it is a wonder all the sweet fruit of thy soul is not quite eaten up with these worms that breed in them, all godly men consumed by those motions and sparks of sin, that are not yet extinct. James doth excellently describe the subtil working of original corruption, Jam. 1. 14: it doth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 entice a man away, with a sweet or profitable bait hiding the hook, and it doth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 draw the heart aside from considering all those arguments and motives that would make him forbear sinne; now that this spawn of sinne which would quickly prove Serpents and Cockatrices, is not destroyed, appeareth by Paul