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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
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.
But how shall we be enabled to this great 1•y?
- 1Quest.
Enter into a deep consideration of Gods 1•rs, past, present, and to come; think 2of the greatness and suitableness of them […] our condition, the seasonableness •d necessity of them every way unto […] Consider how miserable our life •re without them, even without 3•mon favours; but as for spiritual •ours, that make both our natural •d civill condition comfortable, our •y life were death, our light were •nesse without these. In all favours •ke not of them so much, as Gods •cy and love in Christ which swee• them. Think of the freeness of […] love, and the smallness of thy own arts. How many blessings doth God •tow upon us, above our deserts, yea, •e our desires, nay, above our very •ghts? He had thoughts of love to […] when we had no thoughts of our es. What had we been if God had