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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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5. Without particular application, we can neither entertain the love of 1God, nor return love again, by which means we lose all the comfort God intends us in his word, which of purpose was written for our solace and refreshment; Take away particular faith, and we let out all the spirits of cheerful and thankful obedience.
5. Without particular application, we can neither entertaine the love of 1God, nor returne love againe, by which meanes we lose all the comfort God intends us in his word, which of purpose was written for our solace and refreshment; Take away particular faith, and we let out all the spirits of cheerefull and thankfull obedience.
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This possessive particle [My] hath place in all the golden chain of our salvation. The first spring of all Gods claim to us as his is in his election of […] we were by grace his before we were, ⟨p. 485⟩those that are his from that eternal love, […] gives to Christ; this is hid in the breast […] God, till he calls us out of the rest of […] world into Communion with Christ, […] answering of which call (by faith) […] become one with Christ, and so […] with him. Afterwards in justifica• we feel God experimentally to […] reconciled unto us, whence arises […] and inward peace. And then upon •her sanctification God delights in us […] his, bearing his own image, and we •om a likeness to God, delight in him […] •rs in his Christ, and so this mutu• interest betwixt God and us, conti until at last God becomes all in all o us.