A12198:356
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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4. Moreover, to the well ordering of this unruly faculty, it is necessary ⟨p. 187⟩that our nature it self should be changed, for as men are so they imagine, as the treasure of the heart is, such is that 1which comes from it; An evil heart cannot think well: before the heart be changed our judgment is depraved in regard of our last end, we seek our happiness where it is not to be found. Wickedness 2comes from the wicked as the Proverb is. If we had as large and as quick apprehensions as Satan himself, yet if the relish of our will & affections be not changed, they will set the imagination a work, to devise satisfaction to themselves. For there is a mutual working and reflux betwixt the will and the imagination; the imagination stirs up the will, and as the will is affected so imagination worketh.
4. Moreover, to the well ordering of this unruly faculty, it is necessary ⟨p. 187⟩that our nature it selfe should be changed, for as men are so they imagine, as the treasure of the heart is, such is that 1which comes from it; An evill heart cannot thinke well: before the heart be changed our judgment is depraved in regard of our last end, we seeke our happinesse where it is not to be found. Wickednesse 2comes from the wicked as the Proverb is. If wee had as large and as quick apprehensions as Sathan himselfe, yet if the rellish of our wil & affections be not changed, they will set the imagination a worke, to deuise satisfaction to themselves. For there is a mutuall working and refluxe betwixt the will and the imagination; the imagination stirres up the will, and as the will is affected so imagination worketh.