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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 5THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 5
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3. And Pride also, with a desire of liberty, makes men think it to be a diminishing 1of greatness and freedom, either to be curbed, or to curb o• selves: We love to be absolute, and independent; but this, as it brought ruin upon our nature in Adam; so it will upon our persons. Men (as Luther w• wont to say) are borne with a Pope i• their belly, they are loath to give […] account, although it be to themselves their wills are instead of a kingdom […] 2them.
3. And Pride also, with a desire of liberty, makes men thinke it to be a diminishing 1of greatnesse and freedome, either to be curbed, or to curbe o• selves: We love to be absolute, and independant; but this, as it brought rui• upon our nature in Adam; so it will upon our persons. Men (as Luther w• wont to say) are borne with a Pope i• their belly, they are loath to give 〈…〉 account, although it be to themselves their wils are instead of a kingdome 〈…〉 2them.
- 13. Pride.
- 2Mens mihi pro regne.