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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 22THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 22
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Secondly, if we could grieve and cast 1down our selves beneath the earth, as low as the nethermost pit, yet this would be no satisfaction to God for sin; of it self, it is rather an entrance, and beginning of hell.
Secondly, if we could grieve and cast 1downe our selves beneath the earth, as low as the nethermost pit, yet this would be no satisfaction to God for sin; of it selfe, it is rather an enterance, and beginning of hell.
- 1Ans. 2. The greatest sorrow can make no satisfaction for sin.Ans. 2. The greatest sorow can make no satisfaction for sinne.
Thirdly, we must search what is the 1cause of this want of grief which we complain of; whether it be not a secret cleaving to the creature, and too much contentment in it, which oft stealeth ⟨p. 372⟩away the heart from God, and brings in such contentment, as is subject to fail and deceive us, whereupon from discontentment, we grieve, which grief (being carnal) hinders grief of a better kind.
Thirdly, we must search what is the 1cause of this want of griefe which wee complaine of; whether it be not a secret cleaving to the creature, and too much contentment in it, which oft stealeth ⟨p. 372⟩away the heart from God, and brings in such contentment, as is subject to faile and deceive us, whereupon from discontentment, wee grieve, which griefe (being carnall) hinders griefe of a better kinde.