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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 31THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 31
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CHAP. XXXI.
Means of proving and evidencing to our souls, that God is our God.
Meanes of proving and evidencing to our soules, that God is our God.
Now we prove it to our souls, that 1God is ours, when we take him at his offer; when we bring nothing but a sense of our own emptiness with us, and a good conceit of his faithfulness and ability to do us good; when we answer God in the particular passages of salvation, which we cannot do, till •e begins first unto us. Therefore if •e be Gods, it is a certain sign that ⟨p. 496⟩God is ours. If we choose him, we may conclude he hath chosen us first. If we love him, we may know that he hath loved 2us first. If we apprehend him, it is because he hath apprehended us first. Whatsoever affection we show to God, it is but a reflection of his first to us. If cold and dark bodies have light and heat in them, it is because the Sun hath shined upon them first. Mary answers not Rabboni, till Christ said Mary to