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Spiritual Refining, Volume 2

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Spiritual Refining: The Anatomy of True and False Conversion, Volume 2, by Anthony Burgess
Thirty new sermons from the classic Puritan work on true and false conversion originally published in 1652. Some of the sermons this volume contains are: A Man Willing to Have His Soul Searched by God is a Sign of Grace, What Kind of Persons Are Most Unlikely Ever to be Converted, Of God's Framing and Devising Calamities That Men Might Turn From Their Evil Doings, How Afflictions Are Operative to the Conversion of Men, That Not All Mankind Are Called With a Saving Call and God's Justice Cleared in that Point, Of Election and Reprobation and the Fewness and Properties of Those that Are Chosen, and more. They have all been modernized and newly typeset. 247 pages.

A Treatise of Sin

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A Treatise of Sin: The Deceitfulness of the Heart Unmasked by Anthony Burgessis probably one of the greatest books ever written on the deceitfulness of the human heart. It was first written in 1654 and published as A Treatise of Sin. The book is a masterpiece on the heart’s deceitfulness in sin, and formality and hypocrisy in religion. Anthony Burgess’ work contains 42 sermons that pierce to the depths of the soul in exposing false religion and the worthless props men lean on to justify themselves before God.
Burgess was a master in understanding the heart of man and true and false conversion. The sermons in A Treatise of Sin: The Deceitfulness of the Heart Unmasked cover such topics as the Heart’s Deceitfulness in the Matter of Repentance, The Woeful Aggravations of the Deceitfulness of Man’s Heart, That All Sins and Transgressions are Damnable Errors, The Ingredients and Aggravations of Presumptuous Sins, Discoveries of Reigning Sin in a Man with its Aggravations, Of Having Only a Name to Live, The Properties of Gross Hypocrisy in the Matters of Religion, and A Discovery of Close Hypocrisy with the Causes of it.
In our day when a mere intellectual assent to the facts of the gospel or repeating the words of a prayer is all that seems necessary for many pastors to proclaim a man saved, this book is desperately needed. Burgess preached against the errors of his day and his book is a cure for those of our day. Anthony Burgess warned, “Oh what a woeful condition is it for a man at the same time to be blessing himself, and God abhorring of him, while thou art saying: Soul take thine ease; God to be commanding the devils to take thy soul, yet in this condition most live.” Sadly, this is also the condition that most in our present day churches live in. 42 sermons never before published in a newly typeset edition. 330 pp. Clothbound.

Spiritual Refining, Volume 1

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Spiritual Refining: The Anatomy of True and False Conversion, Volume 1 by Anthony Burgess is a classic work on true and false conversion, regeneration, signs of true and false grace, and assurance of salvation. Originally published in 1652, we have selected 30 of the best sermons from the original work which relate most to today. Some of the sermons included are: Showing the Difference Between Assurance and Presumption; That Opposition to and Abstinence from Sin is a Sign of Grace; Gifts and Parts in Matters of Religion No Sign of Grace; External Obedience to the Law of God, No Sure Evidence for Heaven; The Difficulty and in Some Sense the Impossibility of Salvation; That a Man's Leaving those Gross Sins he hath Lived in, Is No Sign of Grace; Showing What the New Birth or Regeneration Is; Laying Open the Counterfeits of the New Birth; Showing the Counterfeits of the New Creature, and more. They have been modernized and newly typeset. The book is approximately 274 pages in length.

Spiritual Refining, Volume 3

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Spiritual Refining: The Anatomy of True and False Conversion, Volume 3, by Anthony Burgess is a classic work on true and false conversion, regeneration, signs of true and false grace, and assurance of salvation. Originally published in 1652. Volume 3 contains the final 60 sermons from the original work. Some of the sermons include:

The Gospel Feast, and who Are welcome Guests, and who Not; Church Privileges No Sign of Grace; Zeal and Diligence in False Worship No Ground of Comfort; Characters and Properties of a Gracious Man; Of the counterfeit of inherent Grace, viz. Natural honesty, and why God hath continued in wicked men the use of Conscience; Of the washing and cleansing of a Sinner; Of the Order and Method that God takes in our Conversion, causing us to walk in his Statutes, opposite to the Doctrine of Pelagians, Papists, Arminians, and Moral Philosophy, and over 50 more.

Burgess wrote: “We pity those deluded mad men, who are persuaded they are such great persons, and have such large estates, when in the meantime they lie miserable and naked, bound up in chains in a dark dungeon; such a spiritual madness is upon most, who never searched to the bottom of all that filthiness which is in them, and thereupon call themselves grapes and figs when they are thorns and thistles.”

492 pages. Hardback. Newly typeset.

Spiritual Refining: A Treatise of Grace & Assurance, Volumes 1 & 2

Spiritual Refining: A Treatise of Grace & Assurance, Volumes 1 & 2

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If you have ALL THREE volumes of Spiritual Refining: The Anatomy of True and False Conversion then you have the material in these volumes. This set contains all 120 sermons from the original work published in 1652, in order, with the Greek text restored.

Sermons like these are unheard of today. They are not preached because the knowledge of true and false conversion and regeneration are unknown in our time. Conversion has been dumbed down to “Do you want to accept Jesus as your personal Savior? Repeat the words of this prayer.” Preaching on regeneration does not exist. In my opinion, this is one of the best works on true and false conversion ever written. Some of the sermons include: That Opposition Against and Abstinence from Sin is a Sign of Grace; Showing the Difference between True Assurance and Presumption; Fully Clearing That There May be Affections and Sweet Motions of Heart in Holy Things, Which Yet Evidence Not Grace, Nor Accompany Salvation; Zeal and Diligence in False Worship No Ground of Comfort; That Every Peaceable Frame of Heart, and Persuasion of God’s Love, Is Not a Sure Testimony of Saving Grace; The Difficulty, and in Some Sense Impossibility of Salvation Notwithstanding the Easiness Which Men Fancy to Themselves Thereof; Showing What the New Birth or Regeneration Is; Showing How Ignorant Men of Great Learning and Outward Righteousness in the World, May Be of Regeneration; The Ground of the Necessity of Regeneration is the Corruption of Men’s Nature; Laying Open the Counterfeits of a New Birth; Showing that the Production of the New Creature is from God alone, and what Attributes are conspicuous in the work; Showing the Counterfeit of the New Creature; Of the counterfeit of inherent Grace, viz. Natural honesty; and why God hath continued in wicked men the use of Conscience; To Undeceive Men that Think, Though They Live Wickedly, Yet They Shall Die Happily; and That God’s Grace of Conversion, is sometimes vouchsafed to the worst of men. All of the above sermons are from Volume 1. Volume 1 contains 460 pages. Volume 2 is 406 pages. Both volumes are hardbacks.