A12198:865
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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When we can say, God is our God, it is more then if we could say, heaven is mine; or whatever good the creature affords, is mine. Alas, what is all this, to be able to say, God is mine, who hath in him the sweetness of all these things, and infinite more? If God be ours, goodness it self is ours. If he be not ours, though we had all things else, yet ere long nothing would be ours. What a wondrous comfort is this, that God hath put himself over to be ours? That a believing soul may say with as great confidence (and greater too) that God ⟨p. 513⟩is his, then he can say his house is his, •is treasure is his, his friends are his? Nothing is so much ours as God is ours, because by his being ours in covenant, all other things become ours: And if God be once ours, well may we trust in him. God and ours joined together, make up the full comfort of a Christian. [God] there is all to be had; but what is that to me, unless he be my God? Al-sufficiency with propriety, fully stay•h the soul.
When we can say, God is our God, it is more then if we could say, heaven is mine; or whatever good the creature affords, is mine. Alas, what is all this, to be able to say, God is mine, who hath in him the sweetnes of all these things, and infinite more? If God bee ours, goodnesse it selfe is ours. If hee be not ours, though we had all things else, yet ere long nothing would be ours. What a wondrous comfort is this, that God hath put himselfe over to be ours? That a beleeving soul may say with as great confidence (and greater too) that God ⟨p. 513⟩is his, then he can say his house is his, •is treasure is his, his friends are his? Nothing is so much ours as God is ours, because by his being ours in covenant, all other things become ours: And if God be once ours, well may we trust in him. God and ours joyned together, make up the full comfort of a Christian. [God] there is all to be had; but what is that to me, unlesse he be my God? Al-sufficiency with propriety, fully stay•h the soule.