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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 24THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 24
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For the first, Trust in God, and take 1•t of his all-sufficiency whatsoever we •t. Sure we are by his promise, that •e shall want nothing that is good. •hat he takes away one way, he can •e another, what he takes away in ⟨p. 394⟩2one hand, he can give in another, wha• he with-holds one way, he can supply in a better. Whatsoever comfort we have in goods, friends, health, or any other blessings, it is all conveyed by him, who still remains though these be taken from us. And we have him bound in many promises for all that is needful for us. We may sue him upon his own bond; can we think that he who will give us a Kingdom, will fa• us in necessary provision to bring us thither, who himself is our portion?
For the first, Trust in God, and take 1•t of his al-sufficiency whatsoever we •t. Sure we are by his promise, that •e shall want nothing that is good. •hat he takes away one way, hee can •e another, what he takes away in ⟨p. 394⟩2one hand, he can give in another, wha• he with-holds one way, he can supply in a better. Whatsoever comfort wee have in goods, friends, health, or any other blessings, it is all conveyed by him, who still remaines though these be taken from us. And wee have him bound in many promises for all that is needfull for us. We may sue him upon his owne bond; can we thinke that he who will give us a Kingdome, will fa us in necessary provision to bring us thither, who himselfe is our portion?