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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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But to come more particularly to ⟨p. 481⟩the words [My God] The words are pregnant; in the womb of them, all that is graciously & comfortably good is contained; they are the spring head of all particular blessings. All particular Relations and Titles that it pleaseth God to take upon him, have their strength from hence, that God is our God. More cannot be said, and less will not serve the turn. Whatsoever else we have, if we have not God; it will prove but an empty Cistern at last. He is our proper element, every thing desires to live in its own element, fishes in the Sea, Birds in the air; in this they are best preserved.
But to come more particularly to ⟨p. 481⟩the words [My God] The words are pregnant; in the wombe of them, all that is graciously & comfortably good is contained; they are the spring head of all particular blessings. All particular Relations and Titles that it pleaseth God to take upon him, have their strength from hence, that God is our God. More cannot be said, and lesse will not serve the turne. Whatsoever else we have, if we have not God; it will prove but an empty Cisterne at last. He is our proper element, every thing desires to live in its owne element, fishes in the Sea, Birds in the ayre; in this they are best preserved.
There is a greater strength in this [My God] then in any other Title, it is more then if he had said My King, or My Lord; these are words of sovereignty and wisdom; but this implies not only infinite power, sovereignty, and wisdom, but likewise infinite bounty and provident care; so that when we are said to be Gods people, the meaning is, that we are not only such over whom God hath a power and command, ⟨p. 482⟩but such as towards whom he shows a loving and peculiar respect.
There is a greater strength in this [My God] then in any other Title, it is more then if he had said My King, or My Lord; these are words of soveraignty and wisdome; but this implies not onely infinite power, soveraignty, and wisdome, but likewise infinite bounty and provident care; so that when wee are said to be Gods people, the meaning is, that wee are not onely such over whom God hath a power and command,