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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 23THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 23
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Another thing that disquiets and 1casts down the soul very much, is, that inward conflict betwixt gr• and corruption: this makes us most work, and puts us to most disquietment. It is the trouble of troubles, […] have two inhabitants so near in one soul, and these to strive one against another, in every action, and at […] times in every part and power in •e the one carrying us upward, higher •d ⟨p. 387⟩higher still, till we come to God: the •er, pulling us lower and lower, fur•r from him. This cannot but breed a •t disquiet, when a Christian shall be 2[…] on to that which he would not, and hind from that which he would do, or •led in the performance of it. The •re light there is to discern, and life •f Orace to be sensible hereof; and the •re love of Christ, and desire from •ove to be like to him, the more irksome will this be: no wonder then that […] Apostle cried out, O wretched man 3[…] lam, &c.
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