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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 10THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 10
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.
Means not to be overcharged […] sorrow.
Meanes not to bee overcharged 〈…〉 sorrow.
TO help us further herein, besid• that which hath been formerly spoken,
TO helpe us further herein, besid• that which hath beene formerly spoken,
1. We must take heed of building an ungrounded confidence of happiness 1for time to come: which ma• us when changes come, 1. Unacquainted with them; 2. takes away expectation of them; 3. and preparati• for them. When any thing is strange and sudden, and lights upon us unfurnished and unfenced, it must needs p• our spirits out of frame. It is good therefore to make all kind of troubles familiar to us, in our thoughts at least, and this will break the force of them. It is good to fence our souls beforehand against all assaults, as men use to keep out the Sea, by raising banks; and if a breach be made, to repair […] presently.
1. Wee must take heed of building an ungrounded confidence of happinesse 1for time to come: which ma• us when changes come, 1. Unacquainted with them; 2. takes away expectation of them; 3. and preparati for them. When any thing is strange and sudden, and lights upon us unfurnished and unfenced, it must needs p our spirits out of frame. It is good therefore to make all kinde of troubles familiar to us, in our thoughts at least, and this will breake the force of them. It is good to fence our soules beforehand against all assaults, as men use to keepe out the Sea, by raising bankes; and if a breach bee made, to repaire presently.