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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 1THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 1
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Whence observe, first, from the state 1he was now in, that since guilt and corruption hath been derived by the fall into the nature of man, it hath been subjected to misery and sorrow, and that in all conditions, from the King that sitteth on the Throne to him that grindeth on the Mill. None ever hath been so good or so great as could raise themselves so high as to be above the reach of troubles.
Whence observe, first, from the state 1he was now in, that since guilt and corruption hath been derived by the fall into the nature of man, it hath been subjected to miserie and sorrow, and that in all conditions, from the King that sitteth on the Throne to him that grindeth on the Mill. None ever hath beene so good or so great as could raise themselves so high as to be above the reach of troubles.
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And that choice part of mankind, the 1first fruits and excellency of the rest (which we call the Church) more then others, which appears by consideration, both of the Head, the Body and members of the Church. For the Head Christ, he took our flesh as it was subject to misery after the fall, and was (in regard of that which he endured) both in life and death, a man of sorrows.
And that choice part of mankind, the 1first fruits and excellency of the rest (which we call the Church) more then others, which appeares by consideration, both of the Head, the Body and members of the Church. For the Head Christ, he tooke our flesh as it was subject to miserie after the fall, and was (in regard of that which he endured) both in life and death, a man of sorrowes.