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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 17THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 17
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CAP. XVII.
Of Graces to be exercised in respect of divine Providence.
WE are under a providence that is above our own; which should be a ground unto us, of exercising those graces that tend to settle the soul in all events. As,
VVEE are under a providence that is above our own; which should bee a ground unto us, of exercising those graces that tend to settle the soule in all events. As,
1. Hence to lay our hand upon our mouths, and command the soul an holy silence, not daring to yield to the least rising of our hearts against God. I was dumb, and opened not my mouth, ⟨p. 279⟩1because thou didst it, saith David. Thus Aaron when he had lost his two sons, both at once, and that by fire, and by fire from heaven, which carried an evidence of Gods great displeasure with it, yet 2