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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.
§. 6.
But here some misconceits must be 1taken heed of.
- 1Misconceits about imagination, to be avoided.
1. As we must take heed that we account not our imaginations to be religion; So we must not account true religion, 1and the power of godliness to be a matter of imagination only; as if holy men troubled themselves more then needs, when they stand upon religion and conscience, seeking to approve themselves to God in all things, and endeavouring (so far as frailty will permit) to avoid all appearances of evil. Many men 2are so serious in vanities, and real in trifles, that they count all, which dote not upon such outward excellencies as they do (because the Spirit of GOD hath revealed to them things of a higher nature) to be fantastics and humorous people, and so impute the work of the spirit to the flesh, Gods work to Satan, which comes near unto blasphemy: ⟨p. 213⟩they imagine good men to be led with vain conceits, but good men know them to be so led. Not only St. Paul, but CHRIST himself, were counted besides