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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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Nothing should displease us, that pleaseth God; neither should any thing be pleasing to us, that displeaseth him. This conformity is the ground of come fort. Our own will takes away God, 1as much as in it lies. If we acknowledge God in all our ways, he will direct our paths, and lead us the way that we should 2go. The quarrel betwixt God and us is taken up, when his will, and our will are one; when we have sacrificed our selves, and our wills unto God; when, as he is highest in himself, so his will hath the highest place in our hearts. We find by experience, that when our wills are so subdued, that we delight to do, what God would have us do, and to be what God would have us be, that then sweet peace presently riseth to the soul.
Nothing should displease us, that pleaseth God; neither should any thing be pleasing to us, that displeaseth him. This conformity is the ground of com fort. Our owne will takes away God, 1as much as in it lyes. If we acknowledge God in all our wayes, he will direct our pathes, and leade us the way that we should 2goe. The quarrell betwixt God and us is taken up, when his will, and our will are one; when wee have sacrificed our selves, and our wills unto God; when, as he is highest in himselfe, so his will hath the highest place in our hearts. Wee finde by experience, that when our wills are so subdued, that wee delight to doe, what God would have us doe, and to be what God would have us be, that then sweet peace presently riseth to the soule.
- 1Propria voluntas Deū quantum in ipsa eximit.Propria voluntas Deū quantum in ipsa eximit.
- 2Prov. 3. 6. Esa. 48. 10.