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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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Among crosses, this is that which quieteth not the mind least, to be •ceived in matter of trust, when as if •e had not trusted, we had not been deceived. The very fear of being disappointed, made David in his hast •ke all men were liars. But as it is a 1•pe cross, so nothing will drive us •er unto God, who never faileth his.
Among crosses, this is that which •quieteth not the minde least, to bee •ceived in matter of trust, when as if •e had not trusted, wee had not beene deceived. The very feare of being dis•pointed, made David in his hast •ke all men were lyars. But as it is a 1•pe crosse, so nothing will drive us •er unto God, who never faileth his.
Friends often prove as the reed of E•t, 1as a broken staff, and as a deceitful •ke, that fails the weary passenger […] Summer time, when there is most ed of refreshing; and it is the unhapesse of men otherwise happy in the rld, that during their prosperous dition, they know not who be their ends, for when their condition dees, it plainly appears, that many e friends of their estates, and not of