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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.
§. 4.
Oh but (say some) thoughts & imaginations are free, and we shall not be 1accountable for them.
- 1Object.
This is a false plea, for God hath a 1sovereignty over the whole soul, and ⟨p. 204⟩his law binds the whole inward and outward man; as we desire our whole man should be saved by Christ, so we must yield up the whole man to be governed by him; and it is the effect of the dispensation of the Gospel, accompanied with the Spirit, to captivate whatsoever is in man unto Christ, and to bring down all high towering imaginations 2that exalt themselves against Gods Spirit. There is a divinity in the word of God powerfully unfolded, which will convince our souls of the sinfulne sof natural imaginations, as we see in the Idiot, Corinth. 14. who seeing himself laid open before himself, cried out, that God was in the speaker.3
This is a false plea, for God hath a 1soveraignty over the whole soule, and ⟨p. 204⟩