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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 4THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 4
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Because it contracteth, and draweth the soul into it self from comm• nion 1of that comfort it might ha• with God or man. And then the soul being left alone, if it falleth, hath no• to raise it up.2
2. Because it contracteth, and draweth the soule into it selfe from comm• nion 1of that comfort it might ha• with God or man. And then the soule being left alone, if it falleth, hath no• to raise it up.2
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- 2Eccles. 4. 10
Therefore, if we will prevent casting 1down, let us prevent grief the cause of it, and sin the cause of th• Experience proves that true which th• Wise Man says, Heaviness in the he• of a man makes it stoop, but a good […] 2makes it better. It bows down th soul, and therefore our blessed Sav our inviteth such unto him; Come […] me ye who are heavy laden with the b den of your sins. The body bends u der