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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 29THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 29
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David doth not say, God will save ⟨p. 465⟩me; but God is salvation it self, and nothing but salvation. Our sins only stop the current of his mercy, but it being above all our sins, will soon scatter that cloud, remove that stop, and then we shall see and feel nothing but salvation from the Lord. All his 1vayes are mercy and peace to a repentant soul that casts it self upon him.
David doth not say, God will save ⟨p. 465⟩me; but God is salvation it self, and nothing but salvation. Our sinnes onely stop the current of his mercy, but it being above all our sinnes, will soone scatter that cloud, remove that stop, and then we shall see and feele nothing but salvation from the Lord. All his 1vayes are mercy and peace to a repentant soule that casts it selfe upon him.
Christ himself is nothing else but salvation clothed in our flesh. So old 1Simeon conceived of him, when he had him in his arms, and was willing thereupon to yield up his spirit to God, having seen Christ the salvation of God: when we embrace Christ in the arms of our Faith, we embrace nothing but salvation. He makes up that sweet name given him by his Father, and brought from heaven by an Angel to 2the full: a name in the Faith of which, it is impossible for any believing soul to sink.