A12198:211
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 7THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 7
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Sixthly, An ordinary Christian may 1be disquieted for being disquieted, as ⟨p. 87⟩David was, but then it is only as disquiet hath vexation in it; but David here striveth against the unquietness of his spirit, not only as it brought vexation with it, but as it hindered communion with his God.
Sixtly, An ordinary Christian may 1be disquieted for being disquieted, as ⟨p. 87⟩David was, but then it is onely as disquiet hath vexation in it; but David here striveth against the unquietnesse of his spirit, not onely as it brought vexation with it, but as it hindred communion with his God.
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In sin there is not only a guilt binding over the soul to Gods judgement, and thereupon filling the soul with inward fears and terrors; but in 1sin likewise there is, 1. a contrariety 2to Gods holy nature; and, 2. a contrariety 3to the Divine nature and image stamped upon our selves; 3. a 4weakening and disabling of the soul from good; and, 4. a hindering of our former communion with GOD, sin 5