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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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Whatsoever is good in the creature, is first in God as in a fountain and it is in God in a more emi• ⟨p. 269⟩manner and fuller measure. All grace and holiness, all sweetness of affection, all power and wisdom, &c. as it is in him, so it is from him, and we come to conceive these properties to be in God, 1. by feeling the comfort and power of 1them in our selves; 2. by observing 2these things in their measure to be in the best of the creatures, whence we arise to take notice of what grace and what love, what strength and wisdom &c. is in God, by the beams of these which we see in his creature, with adding in our thoughts fullness peculiar to God, and abstracting imperfections, incident to the creature; for that is in God in the highest degree, the sparkles whereof is but in us.
Whatsoever is good in the creature, is first in God as in a fountaine and it is in God in a more emi• ⟨p. 269⟩manner and fuller measure. All grace and holinesse, all sweetnesse of affection, all power and wisdome, &c. as it is in him, so it is from him, and we come to conceive these properties to bee in God, 1. by feeling the comfort and power of 1them in our selves; 2. by observing 2these things in their measure to be in the best of the creatures, whence wee arise to take notice of what grace and what love, what strength and wisdome &c. is in God, by the beames of these which we see in his creature, with adding in our thoughts fulnesse peculiar to God, and abstracting imperfections, incident to the creature; for that is in God in the highest degree, the sparkles whereof is but in us.
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