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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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And because Gods times and seasons 1are the best, it is an evidence of true 2trust when we can wait Gods leisure, and not make hast and so run before God; for else the more hast the worse speed; God seldom makes any promise to his Children, but he exerciseth their trust in waiting long before, as David for a Kingdom, Abraham for a son, the whole world for Christs coming, &c.
And because Gods times and seasons 1are the best, it is an evidence of true 2trust when we can waite Gods leisure, and not make hast and so runne before God; for else the more hast the worse speed; God seldome makes any promise to his Children, but he exerciseth their trust in waiting long before, as David for a Kingdome, Abraham for a sonne, the whole world for Christs comming, &c.
- 1Pro. 30. 25
- 28. It runs not before God.8. It runnes not before God.
One main evidence of true trust in God is here in the text, we see here it 1hath a quieting and stilling virtue, for it stays the soul upon the fullness of Gods love joined with his ability to supply our wants and relieve our necessities, though faith doth not (at the first especially) so stay the soul, as to ⟨p. 345⟩