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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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Some holy men have desired to see 1their sin in the most ugly colours, and God hath heard them in their requests. But yet his hand was so heavy upon them, that they went always mourning to their very graves; and thought it fitter to leave it to Gods 2wisdom to mingle the potion of sorrow, then to be their own choosers. For a conclusion then of this point, If we grieve that we cannot grieve, and so far as it is sin, make it our grief: then put it amongst the rest of our sins, which we beg pardon of, and help against, and let it not hinder us from going to Christ, but drive us to him. For, herein lies the danger of this temptation, that those who complain in this kind, think it should be presumption to go to Christ: when as he especially calleth the weary and heavy laden sinner ⟨p. 376⟩to come unto him, and therefore such […] are sensible that they are not sen• enough of their sin; must know, though want of feeling be quite opposite to the life of Grace: yet sensibleness of the want of feeling▪ shows some degree of the life of Grace. The safest way in this case is, from that life and light that God hath wrought in o• souls, to see and feel this want of feeling, to cast our selves and this our indisposition, upon the pardoning and healing mercy of God in Christ.
Some holy men have desired to see 1their sinne in the most ugly colours, and God hath heard them in their requests. But yet his hand was so heavy upon them, that they went alwayes mourning to their very graves; and thought it fitter to leave it to Gods 2wisdome to mingle the potion of sorrow, then to be their own choosers. For a conclusion then of this point, If wee grieve that we cannot grieve, and so far as it is sinne, make it our griefe: then put it amongst the rest of our sinnes, which we beg pardon of, and helpe against, and let it not hinder us from going to Christ, but drive us to him. For, herein lyes the danger of this temptation, that those who complaine in this kinde, thinke it should be presumption to goe to Christ: when as he especially calleth the weary and heavy laden sinner