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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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The like may be said in the departure 1of our friends. Our life is oft too much in the life of others, which God takes unkindly: How many friends have we in him alone? who rather then we shall want friends, can make our enemies our friends. A true believer •to Christ as his Mother, Brother, and 2Sister, because he caries that affection •o them, as if they were Mother, Brother, and Sister to him indeed. As Christ makes us all to him, so should we make him all in all to our selves. If all comforts in the world were dead, we have them still in the living Lord.
The like may be said in the departure 1of our friends. Our life is oft too much in the life of others, which God takes unkindly: How many friends have we in him alone? who rather then we shall want friends, can make our enemies our friends. A true beleever •to Christ as his Mother, Brother, and 2Sister, because he caries that affection •o them, as if they were Mother, Brother, and Sister to him indeed. As Christ makes us all to him, so should we make him all in all to our selves. If all comforts in the world were dead, we have them still in the living Lord.
- 1Comfort in departure of friends.
- 2Mat. 12. 50
Sicknesses are harbingers of death,