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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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But these holy persons were not troubled 1with the guilt of any particular sin, but I feel the just displeasure of God kindled against me for many and great offences.
But these holy persons were not troubled 1with the guilt of any particular sin, but I feele the just displeasure of God kindled against me for many and great offences.
- 1Object.
True it is, that sin is not so sweet 1in the committing, as it is heavy and •itter in the reckoning. When Adam ⟨p. 354⟩had once offended God, Paradise it self was not Paradise to him. The presence of God which was most comfortable before, was now his greatest terror, had not God out of his free infinite and preventing mercy come betwixt him and hell, by the promise of the blessed seed. This seed was made sin to satisfy for sin; sin passive in himself 2to satisfy for sin active in us.
True it is, that sinne is not so sweet 1in the committing, as it is heavy and •itter in the reckoning. When Adam ⟨p. 354⟩had once offended God, Paradise it selfe was not Paradise to him. The presence of God which was most comfortable before, was now his greatest terrour, had not God out of his free infinite and preventing mercy come betwixt him and hell, by the promise of the blessed seed. This seed was made sin to satisfie for sinne; sinne passive in himselfe