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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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Sometimes in a clearer state of the soul, faith hath not so much use of reasons, but upon near and sweet communion with God, and by reason of some likeness between the soul that hath a divine nature stamped upon it, ⟨p. 418⟩and God, it presently without any long discourse, runneth to God as it were by a supernatural instinct, as by a natural instinct a child runneth to his Father in any distress. Yea, and from that common light of nature, which discovereth there is a God, even natural men in extremities will run to God, and God as the Author of nature will sometimes hear them, as he doth the young Ravens that cry unto him; but comfortably, and with assurance only those have a familiar recourse unto him, that have a sanctified suitable disposition unto God, as being well acquainted with him.
Sometimes in a clearer state of the soule, faith hath not so much use of reasons, but upon neere and sweet communion with God, and by reason of some likenesse betweene the soule that hath a divine nature stamped upon it, ⟨p. 418⟩and God, it presently without any long discourse, runneth to God as it were by a supernaturall instinct, as by a naturall instinct a childe runneth to his Father in any distresse. Yea, and from that common light of nature, which discovereth there is a God, even naturall men in extremities will runne to God, and God as the Author of nature will sometimes heare them, as he doth the yong Ravens that cry unto him; but comfortably, and with assurance onely those have a familiar recourse unto him, that have a sanctified sutable disposition unto God, as being well acquainted with him.
Sometimes again faith is put to it to use reasons to strengthen it self, and therefore the soul studieth arguments to help it self by, either from inward store laid up in the soul, or else it hearkeneth, and yields to reasons suggested by others; and there is no gracious heart, but hath a frame suitable and agreeable to any holy and comfortable truth that shall be brought and enforced upon it; there is something in his