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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 33THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 33
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Yea, when there is no present ⟨p. 532⟩evidence, but God shows himself […] contrary to us, yet a former taste […] Gods goodness will enable to lay claim unto him still. Gods concealing of himself is but a wise discipline for a time, until we be enabled to bear the full revealing of himself unto us for ever. In the mean time, though we have some sight and feeling of God, yet our constant living is not by it: the evidence of that we see not, is that which more constantly upholds the soul, then the evidence of any thing we see or feel.
Yea, when there is no present ⟨p. 532⟩evidence, but God shewes himselfe 〈…〉 contrary to us, yet a former taste 〈…〉 Gods goodnesse will enable to lay claime unto him still. Gods concealing of himselfe is but a wise discipline for a time, untill we be enabled to beare the full revealing of himselfe unto us for ever. In the meane time, though we have some sight and feeling of God, yet our constant living is not by it: the evidence of that we see not, is that which more constantly upholds the soule, then the evidence of any thing we see or feele.
Yea, though our experience by reason of our not minding of it in trouble, seems many times to stand us in no stead, but we fare as if God had never looked in mercy upon us: Yet (even here) some virtue remains of former sense, which with the present spirit of faith, helps us to look upon God as ours. As we have a present strength from food received, and digested before; vessels are something the better for that liquor they keep not, but runs through them.
Yea, though our experience by reason of our not minding of it in trouble, seemes many times to stand us in no stead, but we fare as if God had never looked in mercy upon us: Yet (even here) some vertue remaines of former sense, which with the present spirit of faith, helps us to looke upon God as ours. As wee have a present strength from food received, and digested before; vessels are something the better for that liquor they keep not, but runs through them.