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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 addeth (He is the salvations of 1my countenance) that is, he will first speak salvation to my soul, and say, I am thy salvation; and when the heart is cheered (which is as it were the S• of this little world) the beams of that joy will shine in the countenance. True joy begins […] the centre, and so passeth to the circumference the outward man. The countenance is as the glass of the soul, wherein you may see the naked face of the soul, according as the several affections thereof stand. In the countenance of an understanding creature, you may see more then a bare countenance. The spirit of one man may see the countenance of another's inner man in his outward countenance: which hath a speech of its own, and declares what the heart saith, and how it is affected.
David addeth (He is the salvations of 1my countenance) that is, hee will first speake salvation to my soule, and say, I am thy salvation; and when the heart is cheered (which is as it were the S• of this little world) the beames of that joy will shine in the countenance. True joy begins 〈…〉 the center, and so passeth to the circumference the outward man. The countenance is as the glasse of the soul, wherein you may see the naked face of the soule, according as the severall affections thereof stand. In the coutenance of an understanding creature, you may see more then a bare countenance. The spirit of one man may see the countenance of anothers inner man in his outward countenance: which hath a speech of its owne, and declares what the heart saith, and how it is affected.
- 1God first cheers the heart, and then the outward man.God first cheeres the heart, and then the outward man.