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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 32THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 32
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Flesh and blood think nothing is cared for, but what it seeth cared for by itself. It hath no eyes to see a guard of Providence, a guard of Angels. It takes no knowledge that that is best cared for, that God cares for. Those that have God for their God, have enlarged hearts as they have enlarged comforts. They have an everlasting spring that supplies them in all wants, refreshes them in all troubles, and then runs most clearly and freshly, when all other streams in the world, are dried and stopped up. Were we skilful in the •t of faith, to improve so great an interest, what in the world could much dismay us? faith will set God against all.
Flesh and blood think nothing is cared for, but what it seeth cared for by itselfe. It hath no eyes to see a guard of Providence, a guard of Angells. It takes no knowledge that that is best cared for, that God cares for. Those that have God for their God, have enlarged hearts as they have enlarged comforts. They have an everlasting spring that supplies them in all wants, refreshes them in all troubles, and then runnes most clearely and freshly, when all other streames in the world, are dryed and stopt up. Were we skilfull in the •t of faith, to improve so great an interest, what in the world could much dismay us? faith will set God against all.
It should fill our hearts with an holy indignation against our selves, if either we rest in a condition, wherein we cannot truly say God is [Our God] or (if when we can in some sincerity of heart say this) that we make no better advantage thereby, and maintain not our selves answerable to such a condition. What a shame is it for a Noble mans ⟨p. 512⟩son to live like a beggar? for a great rich man, to live like a poor peasant? to famish at a banquet? to fall when we have so many stays to lay hold on? Whereas if we could make this clear to our souls, that God is ours, and then take up our thoughts, with the great riches we have in him, laid open in Christ, and in the promises, we need trouble our selves about nothing, but only get a large vessel of faith, to receive what is offered, nay enforced upon us.