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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
THE SOULS CONFLICT with it self. › Chapter 20THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 20
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Of the method of trusting in God: and the trial of that trust.
Of the method of trusting in God: and the tryall of that trust.
Lastly, (to add no more) our trusting in God, should follow Gods order 1in promising. The first promise is of forgiveness of sin to repentant believers: next 2. of healing and sanctifying grace: then 3. the inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven to them that are sanctified: 4. and then the promises of all things needful in our way to the Kingdom, &c. Now answerably, the soul being enlightened to see its danger, should look first to Gods mercy in Christ pardoning sin, because sin only divides betwixt God and the soul; next, to the ⟨p. 331⟩promises of grace for the leading of a Christian life, for true faith desires healing mercy, as well as pardoning mercy, and then to Heaven and all things that may bring us thither.
LAstly, (to add no more) our trusting in God, should follow Gods order 1in promising. The first promise is of forgivenesse of sinne to repentant beleevers: next 2. of healing and sanctifying grace: then 3. the inheritance of the Kingdome of Heaven to them that are sanctifyed: 4. and then the promises of all things needfull in our way to the Kingdome, &c. Now answerably, the soule being inlightned to see its danger, should looke first to Gods mercy in Christ pardoning sinne, because sinne onely divides betwixt God and the soule; next, to the ⟨p. 331⟩promises of grace for the leading of a Christian life, for true faith desires hea ling mercy, as well as pardoning mercy, and then to Heaven and all things that may bring us thither.