A12198:749
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 28THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 28
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CHAP. XXVIII.
Divers qualities of the praise due to God. With helps therein. And notes of Gods hearing our prayers.
Though this be Gods due and our duty, 1and in it self a delightful thing, yet it is not so easy a matter to praise God, as many imagine: Music is sweet, but the setting of the strings in tune is pleasing; our souls will not be long […] •e, and it is harsh to us to go about ⟨p. 440⟩the setting them in order; like curious Clocks, a little thing will hinder the motion; especially passion, which disturbs not only the frame of grace in us, but the very frame of nature, putting man out of the power and possession of himself; and therefore David here, when he had thoughts of praising God, was fain to take up the quarrel betwixt him and his soul first; Praising sets all the parts and graces of the soul awork; and therefore the soul had need gather it self and its strength together to this duty.
THough this be Gods due and our duty, 1and in it selfe a delightfull thing, yet it is not so easie a matter to praise God, as many imagine: Musick is sweet, but the setting of the strings in tune is •pleasing; our soules will not be long 〈…〉 •e, and it is harsh to us to go about ⟨p. 440⟩