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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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2. We are not our owns, and therefore 1must not set up our selves. We must not consult with flesh and blood either in our selves or others, for self-love will deprave all our actions, by setting before us corrupt ends. It considers not what is best, but what is safest. By-respects sway the balance the wrong way.
2. Wee are not our owns, and therefore 1must not set up our selves. Wee must not consult with flesh and blood either in our selves or others, for selfelove will deprave all our actions, by setting before us corrupt ends. It considers not what is best, but what is safest. By-respects sway the ballance the wrong way.
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3. When things are clear, and God 1will is manifest, further deliberation is ⟨p. 287⟩dangerous, and for the most part argues a false heart, as we see in Balaam, who though he knew Gods mind, yet would be still consulting, till God in judgement gave him up to what his covetous heart led him unto. A man is not fit to deliberate, till his heart be purged of false aims, for else God will give him up to the darkness of his own spirit, and he will be always warping unfit for any bias. Where the aims are good, there God delighteth to reveal his good pleasure. Such a soul is level and suitable to any good counsel, that shall be given; and prepared to entertain it. In what measure any last is favoured, in that measure the soul is darkened. Even wise Solomon, whilst he gave way to his lust, had like to have lost his wisdom.