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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
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The chief of his reasons are fetched from God, what he is in himself, and what he is and will be to his children, and what to him in particular; though godly men have reasons for their trust, yet those reasons be divine and spiritual as faith it self is: for as naturally as ⟨p. 417⟩beams come from the Sun, and branches from the root, even so by divine 1discourse one truth issueth from another. And as the beams and the Sun, as the root and branches are all of one nature, so the grounds of comfortable truths, and reasons taken from those grounds, are both of same divinity and authority, though in time of temptation discourse is oft so troubled, that it cannot see how one truth riseth from another; this is one privilege of heaven, that our knowledge there shall not be so much discursive, proving one thing by another, as definitive, seeing things in their grounds with a more present view: the soul being then raised and enlarged to a present conceiving of things, and there being no flesh and blood in us, to raise objections that must be satisfied with reasoning.
The chiefe of his reasons are fetched from God, what he is in himselfe, and what hee is and will be to his children, and what to him in particular; though godly men have reasons for their trst, yet those reasons be divine and spirituall as faith it selfe is: for as naturally as ⟨p. 417⟩beames come from the Sunne, and branches from the roote, even so by divine 1discourse one truth issueth from another. And as the beames and the Sunne, as the roote and branches are all of one nature, so the grounds of comfortable truths, and reasons taken from those grounds, are both of same divinity and authority, though in time of temptation discourse is oft so troubled, that it cannot see how one truth riseth from another; this is one priviledge of heaven, that our knowledge there shall not be so much discoursive, proving one thing by another, as definitive, seeing things in their grounds with a more present view: the soule being then raised and enlarged to a present conceiving of things, and there being no flesh and blood in us, to raise objections that must be satisfied with reasoning.