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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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Again, God that searcheth and knows our hearts (better then our selves) knows 1when and in what measure it is fit for to grieve: He sees it fitter for some dispositions, to go on in a constant grief. We must give that honour to the wisdom of the great Physician of souls, to know best how to mingle and minister his potions. And we must not be ⟨p. 375⟩so unkind to take it ill at Gods hands, when he, (out of gentleness and forbearance) ministers not to us that chur•sh Physic he doth to others; but cheerfully embrace any potion that he thinks fit to give us.
Againe, God that searcheth and knows our hearts (better then our selves) knows 1when and in what measure it is fit for to grieve: He sees it fitter for some dispositions, to goe on in a constant griefe. We must give that honour to the wisdome of the great Physitian of soules, to know best how to mingle and minister his potions. And we must not bee ⟨p. 375⟩so unkinde to take it ill at Gods hands, when he, (out of gentlenesse and forhearance) ministers not to us that chur•sh Physick hee doth to others; but cheerefully embrace any potion that he thinkes fit to give us.
- 15. Because God sees not grief so fit for one disposition as another.5. Because God sees not griefe so fit for one disposition as another.
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