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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
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Hence it is, that CHRIST hath his name Immanuel, God with us. Not only 1because he is God, and man too, (both natures meeting in one person) but because being God in our nature, he hath undertook this office to bring God and us together. The main end of Christs coming and suffering, was to reconcile, and to gather together in one; and (as Peter expresseth it) to bring man again to God. Immanuel is the bond 2of this happy agreement, and appears for ever in heaven to make it good. As the comfort hereof is great, so the foundation of it is sure and everlasting, God ⟨p. 479⟩will be our God, so long as he is Christs God; and because he is Christs God. 3Thus the Father of the faithful, and all other holy men before Christ, apprehended God to be their God in the Messiah to come. Christ was the ground of their interest. He was yesterday to them as well as to day to us. Hence it is that God is called the portion of his people, 4and they his jewels: he their only rock and strong Tower, and they his peculiar ones.
Hence it is, that CHRIST hath his name Immanuel, God with us. Not onely 1because hee is God, and man too, (both natures meeting in one person) but because being God in our nature, he hath undertooke this office to bring God and us together. The maine end of Christs comming and suffering, was to reconcile, and to gather together in one; and (as Peter expresseth it) to bring man againe to God. Immanuel is the bond 2of this happy agreement, and appeares for ever in heaven to make it good. As the comfort hereof is great, so the foundation of it is sure and everlasting, God ⟨p. 479⟩will be our God, so long as he is Christs God; and because hee is Christs God.