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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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Praise is a just and due tribute for all 1•s blessings; for what else especially •e the best favours of God call for at •r hands? How do all creatures raise God, but by our mouths? It is ⟨p. 458⟩a debt always owing, and always paying; and the more we pay, the more we shall owe; upon the due discharge of this debt, the soul will find much peace. A thankful heart to God for his blessings, is the greatest blessing of all. Were it not for a few gracious souls, what honour should God have of the rest of the unthankful world? which should stir us up the more to be trumpets of Gods praises in the midst of his enemies, because this (in some sort) hath a prerogative above our praising God in heaven, for there God hath no enemies to dishonour him.
Praise is a just and due tribute for all 1•s blessings; for what else especially •e the best favours of God call for at •r hands? How doe all creatures •aise God, but by our mouthes? It is ⟨p. 458⟩a debt alwayes owing, and alwayes paying; and the more we pay, the more we shall owe; upon the due discharge of this debt, the soule will finde much peace. A thankfull heart to God for his blessings, is the greatest blessing of all. Were it not for a few gracious soules, what honour should God have of the rest of the unthankfull world? which should stirre us up the more to be trumpets of Gods praises in the midst of his enemies, because this (in some sort) hath a prerogative above our praising God in heaven, for there God hath no enemies to dishonour him.
- 1Praise is a just and due debt.