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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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The most constant state the soul can be in, in regard of sin, is, upon ⟨p. 377⟩judgement to condemn it upon right ends, and to resolve against it. Thereupon Repentance is called an af•isdome and change of the mind. And •s disposition is in Gods children at […] times. And for affections, love of that •ich is good, and hatred of that which […] evil; these likewise, have a settled •tinuance in the soul. But, grief […] sorrow rise and fall as fresh occasions •re offered, and are more lively stirred […] upon some lively representation, to […] soul of some hurt we receive by •e, and wrong we do to God in it. •e reason hereof is, because till the •e be separated from the body, these actions have more communion with […] body, and therefore they carry more •ward expressions, then dislike, or •omination in the mind doth. We […] to judge of our selves more by that •ich is constant, then by that which is •ing and flowing.
The most constant state the soule can bee in, in regard of sin, is, upon ⟨p. 377⟩judgement to condemne it upon right •nds, and to resolve against it. Thereupon Repentance is called an af•isdome and change of the minde. And •s disposition is in Gods children at 〈…〉 times. And for affections, love of that •ich is good, and hatred of that which 〈…〉 evill; these likewise, have a setled tinuance in the soule. But, griefe sorow rise and fall as fresh occasions re offered, and are more lively stirred upon some lively representation, to soule of some hurt wee receive by e, and wrong wee doe to God in it. e reason hereof is, because till the e be separated from the body, these ctions have more communion with body, and therefore they cary more ward expressions, then dislike, or omination in the minde doth. We to judge of our selves more by that ich is constant, then by that which is ing and flowing.