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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Why art thou thus troubled? Trust 1in God, Grace will be above Nature, God above the devil, the Spirit […] the flesh. Be strong in the Lord, the battle is his, and the victory ou• before hand. If we fought in our […] cause and strength; and with our weapons, it were something: but as […] fight in the power of God, so are […] ⟨p. 389⟩[…] by that mighty power through faith […] salvation. It lies upon the faithful•e 2of Christ, to put us into that pos•on of glory which he hath purcha• for us: therefore charge the soul •ake use of the promises, and rely •n God for perfecting the good •ke that he hath begun in thee.
Why art thou thus troubled? Trust 1in God, Grace will be above Nature, God above the devill, the Spirit 〈…〉 the flesh. Be strong in the Lord, the battell is his, and the victory ou• before hand. If wee fought in our 〈…〉 cause and strength; and with our weapons, it were something: but as 〈…〉 fight in the power of God, so are 〈…〉 ⟨p. 389⟩〈…〉 by that mighty power through faith 〈…〉 salvation. It lyes upon the faithful•e 2