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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.
But, how came David to have the command of his own soul, so, as to 1take it off from grief, and to place it upon God, could he dispose of his own heart himself?
But, how came David to have the command of his owne soule, so, as to 1take it off from griefe, and to place it upon God, could hee dispose of his owne heart himselfe?
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The child of God hath something 1in him above a man, he hath the Spirit of God to guide his spirit: this command of David to his soul was under the command of the Great Commander: God commands David to trust in him, and at the same time infuseth strength into his soul by thinking of Gods command, and trusting to Gods power, to command it self to trust in God: so that this command is not only by ⟨p. 244⟩authority, but by virtue likewise of Gods command: As the inferior orbs move as they are moved by a higher; So Davids spirit here, moves as it is moved by Gods Spirit, which inwardly spake to him to speak to himself.
The child of God hath something 1in him above a man, hee hath the Spirit of God to guide his spirit: this command of David to his soule was under the command of the Great Commander: God commands David to trust in him, and at the same time infuseth strength into his soule by thinking of Gods command, and trusting to Gods power, to command it selfe to trust in God: so that this command is not onely by ⟨p. 244⟩