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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
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3. Oppose serious consideration, against 1vain imagination, and because ⟨p. 186⟩our imagination is prone to raise false objects, and thereby false conceits, and discourses in us; Our best way herein is to propound true objects for the mind to work upon; as, 1. to consider the greatness and goodness of Almighty God, and his love to us in Christ. 2, the joys of heaven, and the torments of hell. 3. the last and strict day of accou•. 4. The vanity of all earthly things. 5. The uncertainty of our lives, &c. From the meditation of these truths, the soul will be prepared to have rig• conceits of things, and to discourse upon true grounds of them, and think with it self, that if these things be so i• deed, then I must frame my life suitable to these principles; hence arise true affections in the soul, true fear of God, true love and desire after the best things, &c. The way to expel •ind o• of our bodies, is to take some wholesome nourishment, and the way to expel windy fancies from the soul, is […] feed upon serious truths.
3. Oppose serious consideration, against 1vaine imagination, and because ⟨p. 186⟩our imagination is prone to raise false objects, and thereby false conceits, and discourses in us; Our best way herein is to propound true objects for the minde to worke upon; as, 1. to consider the greatnesse and goodnesse of Almighty God, and his love to us in Christ. 2, the joyes of heaven, and the torments of hell. 3. the last and strict day of accou•. 4. The vanity of all earthly things. 5. The uncertainty of our lives, &c. From the meditation of these truthes, the soule wil be prepared to have rig• conceits of things, and to discourse upon true grounds of them, and thinke with it selfe, that if these things be so i deed, then I must frame my life sutable to these principles; hence arise true affections in the soule, true feare of God, true love and desire after the best things, &c. The way to expell ind o of our bodies, is to take some wholesome nourishment, and the way to expell windy fancies from the soule, is feed upon serious truthes.