A12198:524
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.
And it is good for the exercise of trust to put cases to our selves of things 1that probably may fall out, and then return to our souls to search what strength we have if such things should come to pass; thus David puts cases; 2perfect faith dares put the hardest cases to its soul, and then set God against all that may befall it.
And it is good for the exercise of trust to put cases to our selves of things 1that probably may fall out, and then returne to our soules to search what strength we have if such things should come to passe; thus David puts cases; 2perfect faith dares put the hardest cases to its soule, and then set God against all that may befall it.
- 14. By putting cases to our selves.
- 2Psal. 3. 6. Psal. 46. 3. Psal. 27. 3.
Again, labour to fit the promise to 1every condition thou art in; there is no condition but hath a promise suitable, therefore no condition but wherein God may be trusted, because his truth and goodness is always the same; And in the promise, look both to the good promised, and to the faithfulness and love of the promiser; It is not good to look upon the difficulty of the thing we have a promise against, but who promiseth it, and for whose sake, and