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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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The price of the Pearl is not known till all else be sold, and we see the necessary use of it. So the worth of God in Christ is never discerned, till we see our lost and undone condition without him, till conscience flies in our faces, ⟨p. 525⟩and drag us to the brink of hell; then •ver we taste how good the Lord is, we […] say, Blessed is the people whose God is […] Lord. Heretofore I have heard of […] loving kindness, but that is not a sand part of what I see and feel. •e joy I now apprehend is unuttera•, unconceivable.
The price of the Pearl is not known till all else be sold, and we see the necessary use of it. So the worth of God in Christ is never discerned, till we see our lost and undone condition without him, till conscience flyes in our faces, ⟨p. 525⟩and dragge us to the brink of hell; then •ver we taste how good the Lord is, wee 〈…〉 say, Blessed is the people whose God is 〈…〉 Lord. Heretofore I have heard of 〈…〉 loving kindnesse, but that is not a •sand part of what I see and feele. •e joy I now appreheud is unuttera•, unconceiveable.
Oh then when we have gotten our •les possest of God, let our study be, […] preserve our selves in his love, to •ke close with him, that he may de•t to abide with us, and never fore us. How basely doth the Scripture ak of whatsoever stands in our way? […] makes nothing of them. What is […], but vanity, and less then vanity? […] nations, but as a drop of the bucket, as