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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 30THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 30
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.
CHAP. XXX.
Of God, our God, and of particular application.
[MY God.]
These words imply a special 1interest that the holy man had in God, (as his God) being the ground of all which was said before; both of the duty of trusting, and of praising, and of the salvation that he expected from God. He is my God, therefore be not disqui•d but trust him. He is my God, therefore he will give me matter to praise him, and will be the salvation of my countenance; God hath some special ones in the world, to whom he doth as it were •e over himself, and whose God he […] by virtue of a more special covenant; whence we have these excellent expressions. I will be your God, and you 2shall be my people: I will be your Father, and you shall be my sons and daughters. Since the fall we having lost our communion with God the chief good, our happiness stands in recovering again