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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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We must not think to have all this •fe at first, & at once, for oftentimes 1•n deeper after a sight and feeling of Gods love then it was before. God is a […] Agent, and knows every mans se•ll mould, and the several services •is to use them in, and oft takes liber• afterwards to humble men more •en he hath enabled them better to •e it) then in their first entrance in• 2Religion: Grief before springs •monly from self-love, and fear eager. Let no man suspect his estate •se God spares him in the beginning. ⟨p. 384⟩For Christians many times meet with greater trials after their conversion then ever they thought on. When men take little fines, they means to take the greater rent. God will have his children first or last to feel what sin is, and how much they are beholding to him for Christ.
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