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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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3. When after grief we find in 1•rd peace; for true grief being Gods •orke in us, he knows best how to •easure it. Therefore, whatsoever •e God brings my soul into, I am […] rest in his goodness, and not except against his dealing. That peace and joy, •ich riseth from grief in the use of •eanes, and makes the soul more able and thankful to God, and less ⟨p. 380⟩censorious and more pitiful to others: is no illusion, nor false light.
3. When after griefe wee finde in 1•rd peace; for true griefe being Gods •orke in us, hee knowes best how to •easure it. Therefore, whatsoever •e God brings my soule into, I am 〈…〉 rest in his goodnesse, and not except •gainst his dealing. That peace and joy, •ich riseth from griefe in the use of •eanes, and makes the soule more •ble and thankfull to God, and lesse ⟨p. 380⟩censorious and more pitifull to others: is no illusion, nor false light.
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