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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.
The soul guides the will and affections, otherwise then it doth the outward members of the body. It sways the affections of confidence, love, joy, &c. as a Prince doth his wiser subjects, and as Counsellors do a well ordered State […] ministering reasons to them, but the •le governs the outward members by command, as a master doth a slave, •his will is enough. The hand and foot 1•ve upon command, without regarding any reason, but we will not trust […] rejoice in God without reason, or a […] of reason at the least.
The soule guides the will and affections, otherwise then it doth the outward members of the body. It swayes the affections of confidence, love, joy, &c. as a Prince doth his wiser subjects, and as Counsellors doe a well ordered State 〈…〉 ministring reasons to them, but the •le governes the outward members by command, as a master doth a slave, •his will is enough. The hand and foot 1•ve upon command, without regarding any reason, but wee will not trust 〈…〉 rejoyce in God without reason, or a 〈…〉 of reason at the least.
- 1* Stat pro ratione volunt•.
Sin it self never wanted a reason, 1[…] as it is, but we call it unreasonable, use it hath no good reason for it;