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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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It is also a ground of overmuch trouble, when we look too much and too long 1upon the ill in our selves and abroad; we may fix our eyes too long even upon sin it self; considering that we have not only a remedy against the hurt by sin, but a commandment to rejoice always in the Lord Much more may we err in poring too much 2upon our afflictions; wherein we may find always in our selves upon search a cause to justify God, and always something left to comfort us: Though we naturally mind more […] cross then a hundred favours, dwelling ⟨p. 39⟩overlong upon the sore.
It is also a ground of overmuch trouble, when we looke too much and toolong 1upon the ill in our selves and abroad; we may fixe our eyes too long even upon sinne it selfe; considering that we have not onely a remedy against the hurt by sinne, but a commandement to rejoyce alwayes in the Lord Much more may we erre in poring toomuch 2upon our afflictions; wherein we may finde alwayes in our selves upon search a cause to justifie God, and alwaies something left to comfort us: Though we naturally minde more 〈…〉 crosse then a hundred favours, dwelling ⟨p. 39⟩overlong upon the sore.
- 13. Too much looking and poring on evils, in our selves & abroad.
- 2Philip. 4. 4