A12198:539
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
THE SOULS CONFLICT with it self. › Chapter 19THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 19
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.
Yes, so far as they are subordinate to God our chief stay, with reservation 1and submission to the Lord, only ⟨p. 319⟩so far, and so long as it shall please him to use them for our good. Because God ordinarily conveys his help and goodness to us by some creature; we must trust in God to bless every mercy we in joy, and to make all helps serviceable to his love towards us. In a word, we must trust & use them in & under God, and so as if all were taken away, yet to think God (being all-sufficient) can do without them, whatsoever he doth by them for our good. Faith preserves the chastity of the soul, & cleaving to God is a spiritual debt which it oweth to him, whereas cleaving to the creature, is spiritual adultery.
Yes, so farre as they are subordinace to God our chiefe stay, with reservation 1and submission to the Lord, onely ⟨p. 319⟩so far, and so long as it shall please him to use them for our good. Because God ordinarily conveyes his help and goodnesse to us by some creature; we must trust in God to blesse every mercy wee in joy, and to make all helps serviceable to his love towards us. In a word, we must trust & use them in & under God, and so as if all were taken away, yet to thinke God (being al-sufficient) can doe without them, whatsoever hee doth by them for our good. Faith preserves the chastitie of the soule, & cleaving to God is a spirituall debt which it oweth to him, whereas cleaving to the creature, is spirituall adultery.
- 1Answ.
It is an error in the foundation to substitute false objects either in Religion, or in Christian Conversation; for 1. in religion