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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
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For, 1. It indisposes a man to all good duties, it makes him like an instrument 1out of tune, and like a body out of joint, that moveth both uncomely and painfully. It unfits to duties to God, who loves a cheerful giver, and especially a thanksgiver. Whereup• the Apostle joins them both together ⟨p. 47⟩in all things be thankful, and rejoice evermore. In our communion with God in 2the Sacraments, joy is a chief ingredient. So in duties to men, if the spirit be dejected, they are unwelcome, and lose the greatest part of their life and grace; A cheerful and a free spirit in duty is that which is most accepted in duty. We observe not so much what, as from what affection a thing is done.
For, 1. It indisposes a man to all good duties, it makes him like an instrument 1out of tune, and like a body out of joint, that moveth both uncomly and painfully. It unfits to duties to God, who loves a cheerefull giver, and especially a thanksgiver. Whereup• the Apostle joines them both together ⟨p. 47⟩in all things be thankfull, and rejoyce evermore. In our communion with God in 2the Sacraments, joy is a chiefe ingredient. So in duties to men, if the spirit be dejected, they are unwelcome, and lose the greatest part of their life and grace; A cheerefull and a free spirit in duty is that which is most accepted in duty. We observe not so much what, as from what affection a thing is done.
- 11. It indisposes to all good duties.
- 21. Thess. 5