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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
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.
§. 1.
But here mark a plot of spiritual treason; Satan joining with our corruption, setteth the wit on work to persuade the soul, that this inward rebellion is not so bad, because it is natural ⟨p. 154⟩to us, as a condition of nature, rising out of the first principles in our 1creation, and was curbed in by the bridle of original righteousness, which they would have accessary and supernatural, and therefore allege that concupiscence is less odious and more excusable in us, and so, no great danger in yielding and betraying our Soule• unto it, and by that means persuading us, that that which is our deadliest enemy, hath no harm in it, nor meaneth any to us.
BVt here marke a plot of spirituall treason; Sathan joyning with our corruption, setteth the wit on worke to perswade the soule, that this inward rebellion is not so bad, because it is naturall ⟨p. 154⟩to us, as a condition of nature, rising out of the first principles in our 1creation, and was curbed in by the bridle of original righteousnesse, which they would have accessary and supernaturall, and therefore alledge that concupiscence is lesse odious and more excusable in us, and so, no great danger in yeelding and betraying our Soule• unto it, and by that meanes perswading us, that that which is our deadliest enemie, hath no harme in it, nor meaneth any to us.