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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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God is not only the cause of things and actions, but the cause likewise of the cessation of them, why they fall not out at all. God is the cause why 1things are not as well as why they are; The cause why men favour us not, or (when they do favour us) want present wisdom and ability to help us, is ⟨p. 276⟩from Gods withdrawing the concurrence of his light and strength from them. If a skilful Physician doth us no good, it is because it pleaseth God to hide the right way of curing at that time from him. Which should move us to see God in all that befalls us, who hath sufficient reason, as to do what he doth, so not to do what he doth not, to hinder, as well as to give way.
God is not onely the cause of things and actions, but the cause likewise of the cessation of them, why they fall not out at all. God is the cause why 1things are not as well as why they are; The cause why men favour us not, or (when they doe favour us) want present wisdome and ability to help us, is ⟨p. 276⟩from Gods withdrawing the concurrence of his light and strength from them. If a skilfull Physitian doth us no good, it is because it pleaseth God to hide the right way of curing at that time from him. Which should move us to see God in all that befalls us, who hath sufficient reason, as to doe what he doth, so not to doe what hee doth not, to hinder, as well as to give way.
- 1Deus est prima causa cujuscunque non esse.
The God of spirits hath an influence into the spirits of men, into the principles and springs of all actions; Otherwise he could not so certainly foretell things to come. God had a work in Absaloms heart in that he refused the best counsel; there is nothing independent of him, who is the mover of all things, and himself unmoveable.