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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 26THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 26
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.
CHAP. XXVI.
Of divine reasons in a believer. Of his minding to praise God, more then to be delivered.
Of divine reasons in a beleever. Of his minding to praise God, more then to bee delivered.
TO go on. [I shall yet praise him.]
TO goe on. [I shall yet praise him.]
In these words David expresseth the reasons and grounds of his trust, namely from the interest he had in God by experience and special covenant, wherein in general we may observe, that those who truly trust in God, 1labour to back their faith with sound arguments; faith is an understanding grace, it knows whom it trusts, and for what, and upon what grounds it trusts: Reason of it self cannot find what we should believe, yet when God hath discovered the same, faith tells us there is great reason to believe it; faith useth reason (though not as a ground yet) as a sanctified instrument to find out Gods grounds, that it may rely upon them. He believes best, that knows best why he should believe; Confidence, and love, and other affections of