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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 13THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 13
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CAP. XIII.
Of imagination, sin of it, and remedies for it.
Of imagination, sinne of it, and remedies for it.
§. 1.
And amongst all the faculties of the soul Most of the disquiet and […] necessary 1trouble of our lives arises from the vanity and ill government of that power of the soul which we […] imagination and opinion, bordering between the senses and our understanding; which is nothing else but a shallow apprehension of good or evil •en from the senses: Now because […] good or evil things agree or disagree to the senses, and the life of sense is […] us before the use of reason, and the delights of sense are present, and pleasing, and suitable to our natures: thereup• the imagination setteth a great price upon sensible good things; and the judgement it self since the fall, until it hath an higher light and strength, yieldeth to our imagination; hence it co• ⟨p. 177⟩