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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.
THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK in the several Chapters.
THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOKE in the severall Chapters.
1 General Observations upon the Text. pag. 5 2 Of discouragements from without. 12 3 Of discouragements from within. 21 4 Of casting down our selves. And specially by sorrow. Evils thereof. 41 5 Remedies of casting down: To cite the• soul, and press it to give an account. 51 6 Other observations of the same nature. 63 7 Difference between good men and others in conflicts with sin. 83 8 Of unfitting dejection: and when it is excessive. And what is the right temper of the soul herein. 92 9 Of the souls disquiets, Gods dealings, and power to contain our selves in order. 108 ⟨image 12⟩10 Means not to be over-charged with forr•. 1• 11 Signs of victory over our selves, and of a subdued spirit. 142 12 Of original righteousness, natural corruption, Satan's joining with it, and our duty thereupon. 153 13 Of imagination, sin of it, and remedies for it. 176 14 Of help by others, of true comforters, and their graces. Method. Ill success. 222 15 Of flying to God in disquiets of soul. Eight observations out of the text. 242 16 Of trust in God: grounds of it: specially his providence. 263 17 Of Graces to be exercised in respect of divine providence. 278 18 Other gr•nds of trusting in God: namely the promises. And twelve directions about the same. 295 19 Faith to be prized, and other things under valued, at least not to be trusted to as the chief. 317 20 Of the method of trusting in God: and the try all of that trust. 330 21 Of quieting the spirit in troubles for sin. And objections answered. 348 ⟨image 12⟩