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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
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7. It were good to have in our eye, the beauty of a well ordered soul, and 1we should think that nothing in this world is of sufficient worth to put us ⟨p. 136⟩out of frame. The sanctified so• should be like the Sun in this, whi• though it worketh upon all these in• riour bodies, and cherisheth them […] light and influence; yet is not mov• nor wrought upon by them again, b• keepeth its own lustre and distance• ▪ So our spirits being of a heave• breed, should rule other things bene• them, and not be ruled by them. It […] a holy state of soul to be under t• power of nothing beneath it self; A• we stirred? than consider, It this m• ter worth the loss of my quiet? Wh• we esteem, that we love, what we love, we labour for; And therefore […] us esteem highly of a clear calm temper, whereby we both enjoy our God, and our selves, and know how to ra• all things else. It is against nature f• inferior things to rule that, which th• wise Disposer of all things hath set above them. We owe the flesh neither suit nor service, we are no debt• to it,
7. It were good to have in our eye, the beauty of a well ordered soule, and 1wee should thinke that nothing in this world is of sufficient worth to put us