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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 28THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 28
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4. Likewise earnestness in prayer is a sign God hears our prayers, as fire 1kindled from heaven showeth God accepts the sacrifice; the ground of prevailing by our prayer, is, that they are put up in a gracious name, and for persons in favour, and dictated by Gods own spirit; they work in the strength of the blessed Trinity not their own, giving God the glory of all his excellencies.
4. Likewise earnestnesse in prayer is a signe God heares our prayers, as fire 1kindled from heaven sheweth God accepts the sacrifice; the ground of prevailing by our prayer, is, that they are put up in a gracious name, and for persons in favour, and dictated by Gods owne spirit; they work in the strength of the blessed Trinity not their owne, giving God the glory of all his excellencies.
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It is Gods direction to call upon him in trouble, & it is his promise to deliver; 1and then both his direction and promise that we shall glorify him; When troubles ⟨p. 455⟩stir up prayer, Gods answer to them will stir up praises. David when […] saith, I shall praise God, presupposes •d would deliver him, that he might •ve ground of praising his name. And […] knew God would deliver him, be•use as from faith he had prayed for deliverance, so he knew it was the order of Gods dealing, to revive after drooping, and refresh after fainting. God knows otherwise that our spirits would fail before him.