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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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It was the cursed policy of Balaam to advise Balak to draw the people from God (by fornication) that so GOD might be drawn from them: the sin of their base affections crept into the very spirits of their mind, and drew them from God to Idolatry: Bodily adultery makes way for spiritual; An unbelieving heart is an ill heart, and a treacherous heart, because it makes us to depart from God, the living God, &c. 1Therefore we should especially take heed of it as we love our lives, yea our best life which ariseth from the ⟨p. 336⟩union of our souls with God.
It was the cursed policy of Balaam to advise Balak to draw the people from God (by fornication) that so GOD might be drawne from them: the sinne of their base affections crept into the very spirits of their minde, and drew them from God to Idolatry: Bodily adultery makes way for spirituall; An unbeleeving heart is an ill heart, and a treacherous heart, because it makes us to depart from God, the living God, &c. 1Therefore wee should especially take heed of it as wee love our lives, yea our best life which ariseth from the ⟨p. 336⟩union of our soules with God.
None so opposed as a Christian, and in a Christian nothing so opposed as his faith, because it opposeth whatsoever opposes God, both within and without us: it captivates and brings under whatsoever rises up against GOD in the heart, and sets it self against whatsoever makes head against the soul.