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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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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.
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 selfe against whatsoever makes head against the soule.
And because mistake is very dangerous, and we are prone to conceive that to trust in God is an easy matter, therefore it is needful that we should have a right conceit of this trust what it is, and how it may be discerned, lest we trust to an untrusty trust, and to an unsteady stay.
And because mistake is very dangerous, and wee are prone to conceive that to trust in God is an easie matter, therefore it is needfull that we should have a right conceit of this trust what it is, and how it may be discerned, lest we trust to an untrusty trust, and to an unsteady stay.
We may by what hath been said before, 1partly discern the nature of it, to be nothing else▪ but an exercise of faith, whereby looking to God in Christ through the promises, we take off our souls from all other supports, and lay them upon God for deliverance and upholding in all ill, present or future, felt or feared, and the obtaining of all ⟨p. 337⟩