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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 11THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 11
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Now the way to prevail still more over our selves, (as when we are to do or suffer any thing, or withstand any person in a good cause, &c.) is, not to think that we are to deal with men, 1yea, or with Devils so much as with our selves. The Saints resisted their enemies to death, by resisting their own corruptions first: if we once get the victory over our selves, all other things are conquered to our ease. All the hurt Satan and the world do us, is, ⟨p. 148⟩by correspondency with our selves. A• things are so far under us, as we a• 2above our selves.
Now the way to prevaile still more over our selves, (as when we are to do or suffer any thing, or withstand any person in a good cause, &c.) is, not to thinke that we are to deale with men, 1yea, or with Devils so much as with our selves. The Saints resisted their enemies to death, by resisting their owne corruptions first: if we once get the victory over our selves, all other things are conquered to our ease. All the hurt Satan and the world doe us, is, ⟨p. 148⟩by correspondency with our selves. A• things are so farre under us, as wee a• 2above our selves.
- 1How to get the mastery of our selves.
- 2Te vince & mundus tibi victus est, &c.