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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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Again, Omission of duties and offices 1of love, often troubles the peace of good people; for even in the time of death when they look for peace and desire it most, then looking back upon their former failings and seeing opportunity of doing good wanting to their desire; (the parties perhaps being deceased to whom they owed more respect) are hereupon much disquieted, and so much the more, because they see now hope of the like advantages cut off.
Againe, Omission of duties and offices 1of love, often troubles the peace of good people; for even in the time of death when they looke for peace and desire it most, then looking backe upon their former failings and seeing opportunity of doing good wanting to their desire; (the parties perhaps being deceased to whom they owed more respect) are hereupon much disquieted, and so much the more, because they see now hope of the like advantages cut off.
- 111. Omission of offices and duties of love.
A Christian life is full of duties, and the peace of it is not maintained without much fruitfulness and looking about us: debt is a disquieting thing to an honest mind, and duty is debt. Hereupon 1the Apostle layeth the charge, that we should owe nothing to any man, but love.
A Christian life is full of duties, and the peace of it is not maintained without much fruitfulnesse and looking about us: debt is a disquieting thing to an honest minde, and duty is debt. Hereupon 1the Apostle layeth the charge, that we should owe nothing to any man, but love.