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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 God in wisdom will have the conversions of such as have gone on in a course of sinning (especially after light revealed) to be rare and difficult. Births in those that are ancienter, are with greater danger then in the younger sort. God will take a course, that his 1grace shall not be turned into wantonness. He oft holds such upon the rack of a troubled conscience, that they and others may fear to buy the pleasure of sin at such a rate. Indeed where sin abounds, there grace superabounds, but then it is where sin that abounded in the life, abounds in the conscience in grief and detestation of it, as the greatest evil. Christ groaned at the raising of Lazarus, which he did not at others, because that though to an Almighty ⟨p. 365⟩power all things are alike easy, yet he will show that there be degrees of difficulties in the things themselves, and make it appear to us that it is so. Therefore those that have enjoyed long the sweet of sin, may expect the bitterest sorrow and repentance for sin.
But God in wisdome will have the conversions of such as have gone on in a course of sinning (especially after light revealed) to be rare and difficult. Birthes in those that are ancienter, are with greater danger then in the younger sort. God will take a course, that his 1grace shall not be turned into wantonnesse. He oft holds such upon the rack of a troubled conscience, that they and others may feare to buy the pleasure of sinne at such a rate. Indeed where sinne abounds, there grace superabounds, but then it is where sinne that abounded in the life, abounds in the conscience in griefe and detestation of it, as the greatest evill. Christ groaned at the raising of Lazarus, which he did not at others, because that though to an Almighty ⟨p. 365⟩power all things are alike easie, yet hee will shew that there be degrees of difficulties in the things themselves, and make it appeare to us that it is so. Therefore those that have enjoyed long the sweet of sinne, may expect the bitterest sorrow and repentance for sinne.
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