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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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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 ⟨p. 264⟩lookes to the word promising, hope to the thing promised in the word, faith lookes to the authority of the promiser, hope (especially) to the goodnesse of the promise; faith looks upon things as present, hope as to come hereafter. God as the first truth is that which faith relyes on, but God as the chiefe 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 ensorces waiting, and waiting is nothing else but hope and trust lengthened.
Howsoever, there may be use of these and such like distinctions, yet usually they are taken promiscuously, especially in the old Testament. The nature and use of faith is set out by terms of staying, resting, leaning, rolling our selves upon God, &c. which come all to one, and therefore we forbear any further curious distinction.
Howsoever, there may be use of these and such like distinctions, yet usually they are taken promiscuously, especially in the old Testament. The nature and use of faith is set out by tearmes of staying, resting, leaning, rolling our selves upon God, &c. which come all to one, and therefore wee forbeare any further curious distinction.