A12198:361
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.
6. Especially take heed of those cursed imaginations out of which as of mother 1roots others spring forth; as questioning Gods Providence, and care of his children, his justice, his disregarding of what is done here below, &c. thoughts of putting off our amendment for time to come, and so blessing •r selves in an evil way; thoughts against ⟨p. 193⟩the necessity of exact and circumspect walking with God, &c. When these 2and such like principles of Satan's and the fleshes divinity take place in our hearts, they block up the soul against the entrance of soul-saving truths, and taint our whole conversation, which is either good or evil, as the principles are by which we are guided, and as our imagination is, which lets in all to the soul.
6. Especially take heed of those cursed imaginations out of which as of mother 1roots others spring forth; as questioning Gods Providence, and care of his children, his justice, his disregarding of what is done here below, &c. thoughts of putting off our amendment for time to come, and so blessing •r selves in an evill way; thoughts against ⟨p. 193⟩the necessity of exact and circumspect walking with God, &c. When these 2and such like principles of Satans and the fleshes divinitie take place in our hearts, they block up the soule against the entrance of soule-saving truths, and taint our whole conversation, which is either good or evill, as the principles are by which wee are guided, and as our imagination is, which lets in all to the soule.
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