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The Soul's Conflict with Itself
The souls conflict with it self, and victory over it self by faith a treatise of the inward disquietments of distressed spirits, with comfortable remedies to establish them / by R. Sibbs ...The soules conflict with it selfe, and victory over it self by faith a treatise of the inward disquietments of distressed spirits, with comfortable remedies to establish them / by R. Sibbs ...
London: printed by M.F. for R. Dawlman, 1635
THE SOULS CONFLICT with it self. › Chapter 3THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 3
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Some again, reap the fruit of their 1ignorance of Christian liberty, by unnecessary scruples and doubts. It is both unthankfulness to God, and wrong to our selves, to be ignorant of the extent of Christian liberty; It makes melody to Satan, to see Christians troubled with that 2they neither should or need. Yet there is danger in stretching Christian liberty beyond the bounds. For a man may condemn himself in that he approves, as in not walking circumspectly in regard of circumstances, and so breed his own disquiet, and give scandal to others.
Some againe, reap the fruit of their 1ignorance of Christian liberty, by unnecessary scruples and doubts. It is both unthankfulnesse to God, and wrong to our selves, to be ignorant of the extent of Christian liberty; It makes melody to Satan, to see Christians troubled with that 2they neither should or need. Yet there is danger in stretching Christian liberty beyond the bounds. For a man may condemne himself in that he approves, as in not walking circumspectly in regard of circumstances, and so breed his owne disquiet, and give scandall to others.
- 1Ignorance of our Christian liberty.
- 2Danger of abusing Christian liberty.
Sometimes also, God suffers men to 1be disquieted for want of employment, who in shunning labour, procure trouble ⟨p. 33⟩