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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 main end of grief and sorrow is, t• make us value the grace and mercy of God 1in Christ, above all the contentments which sin feeds on. Which where it is found, we may know that grief for sin, hath enough possessed the soul before. The sufficiency of things is to be judged by an answerableness to their use and ends: God makes sin bitter, that Christ may be sweet: that measure of grief and sorrow is sufficient, which brings us, and holds us to Christ.
The maine end of griefe and sorow is, t• make us value the grace and mercy of God 1in Christ, above all the contentments which sinne feeds on. Which where it is found, we may know that griefe for sin, hath enough possessed the soule before. The sufficiency of things is to be judged by an answerablenesse to their use and ends: God makes sinne bitter, that Christ may be sweet: that measure of griefe and sorow is sufficient, which brings us, and holds us to Christ.
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Hatred, being the strongest, deepest, and steadiest affection of the soul against 1that which is evil; Grief for sin is then right, when it springs from hatred, and increaseth further hatred against it.
Hatred, being the strongest, deepest, and steadiest affection of the soule against 1that which is evill; Griefe for sinne is then right, when it springs from hatred, and encreaseth further hatred against it.