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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
THE SOULS CONFLICT with it self. › Chapter 16THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 16
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But to come nearer to the unfolding of this trusting in God, which David useth here as a remedy against all distempers. Howsoever confidence and trust be an affection of nature, yet by the spirits sanctifying and carrying it to the right object, it becomes a grace of wonderful use. In the things of this life usually he that hopes most is the most unwise man; he being most deceived that hopes most, because he trusts in that which is uncertain, and therefore deceitful hope is counted but the dream of a waking man. But in Religion it is far otherwise, here, hope is the main supporting grace of the soul, springing from faith in the promises of God.
BUt to come neerer to the unfolding of this trusting in God, which David useth here as a remedy against all distempers. Howsoever confidence and trust bee an affection of nature, yet by the spirits sanctifying and carrying it to the right object, it becomes a grace of wonderfull use. In the things of this life usually hee that hopes most is the most unwise man; he being most deceived that hopes most, because he trusts in that which is uncertaine, and therefore deceitfull hope is counted but the dreame of a waking man. But in Religion it is farre otherwise, here, hope is the maine supporting grace of the soule, springing from faith in the promises of God.
Trust and hope are often taken in the same sense, though a distinction betwixt them hath sometimes its use: faith ⟨p. 264⟩looks to the word promising, hope to the thing promised in the word, faith looks to the authority of the promiser, hope (especially) to the goodness of the promise; faith looks upon things as present, hope as to come hereafter. God as the first truth is that which faith relies on, but God as the chief good, is that which hope rests on, trust or confidence is nothing else, but the strength of hope; if the thing hoped for be deferred, then of necessity it enforces waiting, and waiting is nothing else but hope and trust lengthened.
Trust and hope are often taken in the same sense, though a distinction betwixt them hath somtimes its use: faith