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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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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.
- 11. Christ the Head was a man of many sorrows.1. Christ the Head was a man of many sorrowes.
For the Body the Church, It may say from the first to the last as it is Psal. 129. 1From my youth up they have afflicted me. The Church began in blood, hath grown up by blood, and shall end in blood, as it was redeemed by blood.
For the Body the Church, It may say from the first to the last as it is Psal. 129. 1From my youth up they have afflicted me. The Church beganne in blood, hath growen up by blood, and shall end in blood, as it was redeemed by blood.