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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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It pleaseth him, that in Christ all ful•sse 1shall dwell, from whose fullness •ce sufficient is dispensed to us, an•erable to the measure of our faith, •hereby we fetch it from the fountain. The more we trust, the more we have. When we look therefore to our own •nt, we should look withal to Christs •nesse, and his nearness to us, and ⟨p. 392⟩take advantage from our misery, to re• upon his all sufficiency, whose fullness ours, as himself is. Our fullness wi• our life is hid in Christ, and distille• into us, in such measure as his wisdom thinketh fit, and as showeth him to b• a free agent, and yet so as the blame f• want of grace lieth upon us, seeing h• is before hand with us in his offers o grace, and our own consciences will tell us, that our failings are more from cherishing of some lust, then from unwillingness in him to supply us with grace.