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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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That which least troubles a natural man, doth most of all trouble a tr• Christian; A natural man is sometimes troubled with the fruit of his corruption, and the consequents of guilt and punishment that attend it; but a true hearted Christian, with corruption it self; this drives him […] complain with St. Paul, O wr• man that I am, who shall deliver me, […] 1from the members only, but from […] body of death? Which is as noisome ⟨p. 149⟩to my soul, as a dead carrion is to my senses; which together with the members, is marvellously nimble and active; and hath no days, or hours, or minutes of rest; always laying about it to enlarge it self, and like spring-water, which the more it issueth out, the more it may.
That which least troubles a natural man, doth most of all trouble a tr• Christian; A naturall man is sometimes troubled with the fruit of his corruption, and the consequents of guilt and punishment that attend it; but a true hearted Christian, with corruption it selfe; this drives him 〈…〉 complaine with St. Paul, O wr• man that I am, who shall deliver me, 〈…〉 1from the members onely, but from 〈…〉 body of death? Which is as noysom• ⟨p. 149⟩to my soule, as a dead carrion is to my senses; which together with the members, is marvellously nimble and active; and hath no dayes, or houres, or minuits of rest; alwayes laying about it to enlarge it selfe, and like spring-water, which the more it issueth out, the more it may.