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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.
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.
This possessive particle [My] hath place in all the golden chaine of our salvation. The first spring of all Gods claime 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 eternall love, 〈…〉 gives to Christ; this is hid in the breast 〈…〉 God, till he calls us out of the rest of 〈…〉 world into Cōmunion with Christ, 〈…〉 answering of which call (by faith) 〈…〉 become one with Christ, and so 〈…〉 with him. Afterwards in justifica• wee feele God experimentally to 〈…〉 reconciled unto us, whence arises 〈…〉 and inward peace. And then upon her sanctification God delights in us his, bearing his owne image, and we om a likenesse to God, delight in him rs in his Christ, and so this mutu interest betwixt God and us, conti untill at last God becomes all in all o us.