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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 21THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 21
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CHAP. XXI.
Of quieting the spirit in troubles for sin. And objections answered.
Of quieting the spirit in troubles for sinne. And objections answered.
TO begin with troubles of the spirit, which indeed are the spirit of troubles, as disabling that which should uphold a man in all his troubles. A spirit set in tune, and assisted by a higher spirit, will stand out against ordinary assaults, but when God, (the God of the spirits of all flesh) shall seem contrary to our spirits, whence then shall we find relief?
TO begin with troubles of the spirit, which indeed are the spirit of troubles, as disabling that which should uphold a man in all his troubles. A spirit set in tune, and assisted by a higher spirit, will stand out against ordinary assaults, but when God, (the God of the spirits of all flesh) shall seeme contrary to our spirits, whence then shall wee finde reliefe?
Here all is spiritual, God a spirit, the soul a spirit, the terrors spiritual, the devil who joins with these a spirit; yea, that which the soul fears for the time to come, is spiritual, and not only spiritual, but eternal, unless it pleaseth God at length to break out of the thick cloud, wherewith he covers himself, and shine upon the soul, as in his own time he will.