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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The boundless and restless desire of mans spirit will never be stayed without some discovery of the chief good, and the way to attain the same: ⟨p. 299⟩men would have been in darkness about their final condition, and the way to please God and to pacify and purge their consciences, had not the word of God set down the spring and cause of all evil, together with the cure of it, and directed us how to have communion with God, and to raise our selves above all the evil which we meet withal betwixt us and happiness, and to make us every way wise to salvation. Hence it is that the Psalmist prefers the manifestation of God by his •d, before the manifestation of him, 1in his most glorious works.
The boundlesse and restlesse desire of mans spirit will never bee stayed without some discovery of the chiefe good, and the way to attaine the same: ⟨p. 299⟩men would have beene in darknesse about their finall condition, and the way to please God and to pacifie and purge their consciences, had not the word of God set downe the spring and cause of all evill, together with the cure of it, and directed us how to have communion with God, and to raise our selves above all the evill which wee meet withall betwixt us and happines, and to make us every way wise to salvation. Hence it is that the Psalmist preferres the manifestation of God by his •d, before the manifestation of him, 1in his most glorious works.