A12198:723

The Soul's Conflict with Itself

Name: The Soul's Conflict with Itself
Author: Richard Sibbes

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 ...

Richard Sibbes 1577–1635London: printed by M.F. for R. Dawlman, 1635

[28], 572 [i.e. 574], [14] p. · 113k words · STC 22508.5 · ESTC S95203

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THE SOULS CONFLICT with it self. › Chapter 27THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 27

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.

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CHAP. XXVII.

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•our worst condition we have cause to praise God. Still ample cause in these days.

•our worst condition wee have cause to praise God. Still ample cause in these dayes.

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[Shall yet praise him.] Or, yet I will praise God; that is, however it goeth •ith me, yet as I have a cause, so I •ve a spirit to praise God; when we •e at the lowest, yet it is a mercy that •e are not consumed, we are never so ill, •t it might be worse with us; whatsoever is less then hell is undeserved. […] is a matter of praise, that yet we have •e and opportunity to get into a •essed condition. The Lord hath afflicted ¹me sore, but he hath not delivered me […] death, saith David.

[Shall yet praise him.] Or, yet I will praise God; that is, however it goeth •ith me, yet as I have a cause, so I •ve a spirit to praise God; when we •e at the lowest, yet it is a mercy that •e are not consumed, we are never so ill, t it might be worse with us; whatsoever is lesse then hell is undeserved. is a matter of praise, that yet we have e and opportunity to get into a essed condition. The Lord hath afflicted

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Sibbes 1577–1635

Place

London

Printer

M.F.

Bookseller

R. Dawlman

Year

1635

Size

[28], 572 [i.e. 574], [14] p.

Words

112,944

Catalogue

STC 22508.5 · ESTC S95203

Text

EEBO-TCP A12198

Passages

971

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. XXVII.