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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.
Now the reason why imagi• 1works so upon the soul, is, he arise• stirs up the affections answerable […] ⟨p. 181⟩the good or ill which it apprehends, and our affections stir the humours of the body, so that oftentimes both our souls and bodies are troubled hereby.
Now the reason why imagi• 1works so upon the soule, is, hee arise• stirres up the affections answerable 〈…〉 ⟨p. 181⟩the good or ill which it apprehends, and our affections stirre the humors of the body, so that oftentimes both our soules and bodies are troubled hereby.
- 1How sinful imaginations work upon the soul.How sinfull imaginatiōs work upon the soule.
Things work upon the soul in this order. 1. Some object is presented. 2. Then it is apprehended by imagination as good and pleasing, or as evil and hurtful. 3. If good, the desire is •ried to it with delight: if evil, it is rejected with distaste, and so our affections are stirred up suitably to our apprehension of the object. 4. Affections sti• up the spirits. 5. The spirits raise the humours, and so the whole man becomes moved and oftentimes appeared; this falleth out by reason of e Sympathy between the soul and body whereby what offendeth one redeth to the hurt of the other.