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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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2. There is in them a suitableness and connaturalness of heart to all that 1is spiritual, to whatsoever hath Gods stamp upon it, as his truth and his children, and that because they are his. By this likeness of disposition, we are fashioned to a communion with him: Can two walk together and not be agreed? It is a certain evidence that we are Gods in Christ, if the spirit of God hath wrought in us any impression like unto Christ, who is the image of his Father; both Christs looking upon us, and our looking upon Christ by faith (as ours) hath a transforming and conforming power.
2. There is in them a sutablenesse and connaturalnesse of heart to all that 1is spirituall, to whatsoever hath Gods stampe upon it, as his truth and his children, and that because they are his. By this likenesse of disposition, wee are fashioned to a communion with him: Can two walke together and not be agreed? It is a certaine evidence that we are Gods in Christ, if the spirit of God hath wrought in us any impression like unto Christ, who is the image of his Father; both Christs looking upon us, and our looking upon Christ by faith (as ours) hath a transforming and conforming power.
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3. Spiritual comforts in distress, such as the world can neither give, nor 1take away, show that God looks upon the souls of his with another eye, then he beholdeth others. He sends a secret messenger that reports his peculiar love ⟨p. 503⟩to their hearts. He knows their souls, and feeds them with his hidden Manna; the inward peace they feel, is not in freedom from trouble, but in freeness with God in the midst of trouble.