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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.
There is scarce any man, but the good he receives from God is more than the ill he feels, if our unthankful hearts would suffer us to think […] Is not our health more than our sickness? do we not enjoy more than we want, I mean, of the things that are necessary? Are not our good days more than our evil? but we would go to heaven upon Roses, and usually o• cross is more taken to heart, than […] hundred blessings. So unkindly […] deal with God. Is God indebted to us, doth he owe us any thing? those that deserve nothing, should be cont• with any thing.
There is scarce any man, but the good hee receives from God is more than the ill hee feeles, if our unthankfull hearts would suffer us to thinke 〈…〉 Is not our health more than our sickenesse? doe we not enjoy more than we want, I meane, of the things that are necessary? Are not our good dayes more than our evill? but we would go to heaven upon Roses, and usually o• crosse is more taken to heart, than 〈…〉 hundred blessings. So unkindly 〈…〉 deale with God. Is God indebted to us, doth hee owe us any thing? those that deserve nothing, should be cont• with any thing.
We should look to others as good as our selves (as well as to our selves) and than we shall see it is not our own case only; who are we that we should look for an exempted condition from ⟨p. 135⟩those troubles which Gods dearest children are addicted unto.
Wee should looke to others as good as our selves (as well as to our selves) and than we shall see it is not our owne case onely; who are we that we should looke for an exempted condition from ⟨p. 135⟩