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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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Where trust is rightly planted, it gives boldness to the soul in going to 1God, for it is grounded upon the discovery of Gods love first to us, and seeth a warrant from him for whatsoever it 2trusts him for; though the things themselves be never so great, yet they are no greater then God is willing to bestow; again, trust is bold because it is grounded upon the worthiness of a Mediator who hath made way to Gods favour for us, and appears now in heaven to maintain it towards us.
Where trust is rightly planted, it gives boldnesse to the soule in going to 1God, for it is grounded upon the discovery of Gods love first to us, and seeth a warrant from him for whatsoever it 2trusts him for; though the things themselves be never so great, yet they are no greater then God is willing to bestow; againe, trust is bold because it is grounded upon the worthinesse of a Mediator who hath made way to Gods favour for us, and appeares now in heaven to maintain it towards us.
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Yet this boldness is with humility, which carries the soul out of it self; 1and that boldness which the soul by trust hath with God, is from God himself; it hath nothing to allege from it self but its own emptiness and Gods fullness, its own sinfulness and Gods mercy, its own humble obedience, and Gods command; hence it is that the