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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.
In those that are truly converted, all saving truths are transcribed out of the Scripture into their hearts, they are 1taught of God; So as they find all truths both concerning the sinful estate, and the gracious and happy estate of man in themselves; they carry a divinity in them and about them, so as from a saving feeling they can speak of conversion, of sin, of grace, and the comforts of the spirit, &c. and from this acquaintance are ready to yield and give up themselves to truth revealed and to God speaking by it. Trust is never sound but upon a spiritual conviction of the truth and goodness we rely upon, for the effecting of which the Spirit of God must likewise subdue the rebellion and ma•e ⟨p. 305⟩of our will, that so it may be suitable and level to divine things, and relish them 2as they are; we must apprehend the love of God and the fruits of it as better then life it self, and then choosing and cleaving to the same will soon follow; for as there is a fitness in divine truths to all the necessities of the soul, so the Soul must be fitted by them to savour and apply them to it self; and then from an harmony between the soul and that which it applies it self unto, there will follow not only peace in the soul, but joy and delight surpassing any contentment in the world besides.
In those that are truely converted, all saving truths are transcribed out of the Scripture into their hearts, they are 1taught of God; So as they finde all truths both concerning the sinfull estate, and the gracious and happy estate of man in themselves; they cary a divinity in them and about them, so as from a saving feeling they can speake of conversion, of sin, of grace, and the comforts of the spirit, &c. and from this acquaintance are ready to yeeld and give up themselves to truth revealed and to God speaking by it. Trust is never sound but upon a spirituall conviction of the truth and goodnesse we rely upon, for the effecting of which the Spirit of God must likewise subdue the rebellion and ma•e ⟨p. 305⟩