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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.
By the bare word of God it is that the heavens continue, and the earth (without any other foundation) hangs in the mids of the world; therefore well may the soul stay it self on that, even when it hath nothing else in sight to rely upon; By his word it is that the covenant of day and night, and the preservation of the world from any further overflowing of waters continueth; which if it should fail, yet his covenant with his people shall abide firm for ever, though the whole frame of nature were dissolved.
By the bare word of God it is that the heavens continue, and the earth (without any other foundation) hangs in the mids of the world; therefore well may the soule stay it selfe on that, even when it hath nothing else in sight to relye upon; By his word it is that the covenant of day and night, and the preservation of the world from any further overflowing of waters continueth; which if it should fayle, yet his covenant with his people shall abide firme for ever, though the whole frame of nature were dissolved.
When we have thus gotten a fit foundation for the soul to lay it self upon, 1Our next care must be (by Trusting) to build on the same; All our misery's either in having a false foundation, or else in loose building upon a true; therefore ⟨p. 301⟩having so strong a ground as Gods Nature, his providence, his promise, &c. to build upon, the only way for establishing our souls is (by trust) to rely firmly on him.
When we have thus gotten a fit foundation for the soule to lay it selfe upon, 1Our next care must be (by Trusting) to build on the same; All our misery's either in having a false foundation, or else in loose building upon a true; therefore ⟨p. 301⟩