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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 27THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 27
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Though we want Urim and Thum•; and the Prophets to foretell us 1what the times to come shall be, yet we have the Canon of Scripture enlarged, •e live under a more glorious manifestation 2of Christ, and under a more plentiful shedding of the Spirit, whereby ⟨p. 432⟩that want is abundantly supplied; we have general promises for the time to come, that God will never fail nor forsake us, that he will be with us in fire 3and in water, that he will give an issue to the temptation, and that the issue of all 4things shall be for our good, that we shall reap the quiet fruit of righteousness, and no good thing will he withhold from them that tend a godly life, &c. If we had a 5spirit of faith to apply these generals. we should see much of Gods goodness in particular.
Though we want Vrim and Thum•; and the Prophets to foretell us 1what the times to come shall be, yet we have the Canon of Scripture enlarged, •e live under a more glorious manifestation 2of Christ, and under a more plentifull shedding of the Spirit, wherby ⟨p. 432⟩that want is abundantly supplyed; we have generall promises for the time to come, that God will never faile nor forsake us, that he will be with us in fire 3