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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 6THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 6
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Satan mingleth himself with […] ⟨p. 77⟩own passions, therefore we should blame our selves first, be ashamed of our selves most, and judge our selves most severely. But self-love teacheth us a contrary method; to translate all upon others; it robs us of a right judgement of our selves. Though we desire to know all diseases of the body by their proper names, yet we will conceive of sinful passions of the soul under milder terms; as lust under love, rage under just anger, murmuring under just displeasure, &c. thus whilst we flatter our grief, what hope of cure! Thus sin hath not only made all the creatures enemies to us, but our selves the greatest enemies to our selves, and therefore we should begin our complaints against our selves, & discuss our selves throughly; how else shall we judge truly of other things without us, above us, or beneath us? The Sun when it rises enlightens first the nearest places, and then the more remote; So where true light is set up, it discovers what is amiss within first.
Satan mingleth himselfe with 〈…〉 ⟨p. 77⟩owne passions, therefore wee should blame our selves first, bee ashamed of our selves most, and judge our selves most severely. But selfe-love teacheth us a contrary method; to translate all upon others; it robs us of a right judgement of our selves. Though we desire to know all diseases of the body by their proper names, yet wee will conceive of sinfull passions of the soule under milder termes; as lust under love, rage under just anger, murmuring under just displeasure, &c. thus whilest wee flatter our griefe, what hope of cure! Thus sinne hath not onely made all the creatures enemies to us, but our selves the greatest enemies to our selves, and therefore wee should begin our complaints against our selves, & discusse our selves throughly; how else shal we judge truly of other things without us, above us, or beneath us? The Sun when it rises enlightens first the nearest places, and then the more remote; So where true light is set up, it discovers what is amisse within first.