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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.
§. 2.
For the better strengthening of our 1trust, it is not sufficient that we trust in God and his truth revealed, but we must do it by light and strength from him: Many believe in the truth by humane 2arguments, but no arguments will convince the soul but such as are fetched from the inward nature, and powerful work of truth it self; No man can know God, but by God; None can know the Sun, but by its own light; None can know the truth of God (so as to build upon it) but by the truth it self and the Spirit revealing it by its own light to the soul; that soul which hath felt the power of truth in casting it down, and raising it up again, will easily be brought to rest upon it; It is neither education, nor the authority of others that profess the same truth, or that we have been so taught by men of great parts, &c. will settle the heart, until we find an inward power and authority ⟨p. 304⟩in the truth it self shining in our hearts by its own beams; hence comes unsettledness in time of troubles, because we have not a spiritual discerning of spiritual things. Supernatural truths must have a supernatural power to apprehend them, therefore God createth a spiritual eye and hand of the soul which is faith.
For the better strengthning of our 1trust, it is not sufficient that we trust in God and his truth revealed, but we must doe it by light and strength from him: Many beleeve in the truth by humane 2arguments, but no arguments will convince the soule but such as are fetched from the inward nature, and powerfull worke of truth it selfe; No man can know God, but by God; None can know the Sunne, but by its owne light; None can know the truth of God (so as to build upon it) but by the truth it self and the Spirit revealing it by its owne light to the soule; that soule which hath felt the power of truth in casting it downe, and raising it up againe, will easily be brought to rest upon it; It is neither education, nor the authority of others that professe the same truth, or that we have been so taught by men of great parts, &c. will settle the heart, untill we finde an inward power and authority