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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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And when their consciences are throughly awaked with sense of their danger, let them seriously consider whither sin, and Satan by sin is carrying of them, and lay to heart the justice of God, standing before them as an Angel ⟨p. 361⟩with a drawn sword, ready to fall upon them if they post on still.
And when their consciences are throughly awaked with sense of their danger, let them seriously consider whither sin, and Sathan by sin is carying of them, and lay to heart the justice of God, standing before them as an Angell ⟨p. 361⟩with a drawne sword, ready to fall upon them if they post on still.
Yet to keep them from utter sinking, let them consider withal, the unlimited mercy of God, as not limited to any person, or any sin, so not to any time; there is no prescription of time can bind God, his mercy hath no certain date that will expire, so as those that fly unto it, shall have no benefit. Invincible mercy will never be conquered, 1and endless goodness never admits of bounds or end.
Yet to keep them from utter sinking, let them consider withall, the unlimited mercy of God, as not limited to any person, or any sin, so not to any time; there is no prescription of time can binde God, his mercy hath no certaine date that will expire, so as those that fly unto it, shall have no benefit. Invincible mercy will never be conquered, 1and endlesse goodnesse never admits of bounds or end.
- 1Bonitas invicti non vincitur, & infinita miserecordia non finitur. Fulgent.