A12198:293

The Soul's Conflict with Itself

Name: The Soul's Conflict with Itself
Author: Richard Sibbes

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 ...

Richard Sibbes 1577–1635London: printed by M.F. for R. Dawlman, 1635

[28], 572 [i.e. 574], [14] p. · 113k words · STC 22508.5 · ESTC S95203

Title page of the 1636 edition: Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books microfilm (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

THE SOULS CONFLICT with it self. › Chapter 11THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 11

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.

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CAP. XI.

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Signs of victory over our selves, and of […] subdued spirit.

Signes of victory over our selves, and of 〈…〉 subdued spirit.

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But how shall we know, whether we have by grace got the victory over our selves ¹or not?

BVt how shall we know, whether we have by grace got the victory over our selves ¹or not?

1Quest.

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I answer, if in good actions we stand not so much upon the credit of the ¹action, as upon the good that is done. What we do as unto God, we look for acceptance from God. It was Jon his fault to stand more upon his own reputation, than the glory of Gods mercy. It is a prevailing sign, when though there be no outward encouragements,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Sibbes 1577–1635

Place

London

Printer

M.F.

Bookseller

R. Dawlman

Year

1635

Size

[28], 572 [i.e. 574], [14] p.

Words

112,944

Catalogue

STC 22508.5 · ESTC S95203

Text

EEBO-TCP A12198

Passages

971

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CAP. XI.