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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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Is God our God, and will he suffer any thing to befall us for our hurt? Will he lay any more upon us, then he gives us strength to bear? Will he suffer any wind to blow upon us, but for good? Doth he not set us before his face? Will a Father or Mother suffer a child to be wronged in their presence, if they can ⟨p. 520⟩help it? Will a friend suffer his friend to be injured, if he may redress him? And will God that hath put these affections into Parents and friends, neglect the care of those he hath taken so near unto himself? No surely, his eyes are open to look upon their condition; his ears are open to their prayers; a book of remembrance is written of all their good desires, speeches, and actions; 1he hath bottles for all their tears, their very sighs are not hid from him, he hath written them upon the palms of his hands, and cannot but continually 2look upon them. Oh let us prize the favour of so good a God, who though he dwells on high, yet will regard things so low, and not neglect the mean estate of any; Nay, especially, delights to be called the comforter of his Elect, and the God of those that are in misery, and have none to fly unto but himself.
Is God our God, and will he suffer any thing to befall us for our hurt? Will he lay any more upon us, then he gives us strength to beare? Will hee suffer any wind to blow upon us, but for good? Doth he not set us before his face? Will a Father or Mother suffer a child to be wronged in their presence, if they can ⟨p. 520⟩help it? Will a friend suffer his friend to be injured, if he may redresse him? And will God that hath put these affections into Parents and friends, neglect the care of those hee hath taken so neere unto himselfe? No surely, his eyes are open to looke upon their condition; his eares are open to their prayers; a booke of remembrance is written of all their good desires, speeches, and actions; 1hee hath bottles for all their teares, their very sighs are not hid from him, he hath written them upon the palmes of his hands, and cannot but continually