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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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That is counsel to thee, it is not past 1if thou canst raise up thy heart to God, and embrace his goodness. Show by thy yielding unto mercy, that thy time of mercy is not yet out, rather then by concluding uncomfortably, willingly betray thy self to thy greatest enemy, enforcing that upon thy self, which God labours to draw thee from. As in the sin against the Holy Ghost, fear shows that we have not committed it: So in this, a tender heart fearing least our time be past, ⟨p. 369⟩shows plainly that it is not past.
That is counsell to thee, it is not past 1if thou canst raise up thy heart to God, and embrace his goodnesse. Shew by thy yeelding unto mercy, that thy time of mercy is not yet out, rather then by concluding uncomfortably, willingly betray thy selfe to thy greatest enemy, enforcing that upon thy selfe, which God labours to draw thee from. As in the sinne against the Holy Ghost, feare shewes that wee have not committed it: So in this, a tender heart fearing least our time bee past, ⟨p. 369⟩shewes plainely that it is not past.