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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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But if God be our God, that love which engaged him to bind himself to us in precious promises; will furnish […] likewise with grace needful, till we ⟨p. 538⟩be possessed of them. He will give us leave to depend upon him both for happiness, and all sanctifying and quieting graces, which may support the soul, till it come to its perfect rest in God. For God so quiets the hearts of his children, as withal, he makes them better, and fitter for that which he provides for them, grace and peace go together; Our God is the God of grace and peace, of such graces as breed peace.
But if God be our God, that love which engaged him to binde himselfe to us in precious promises; will furnish 〈…〉 likewise with grace needfull, till we ⟨p. 538⟩be possessed of them. Hee will give us leave to depend upon him both for happinesse, and all sanctifying and quieting graces, which may support the soule, till it come to its perfect rest in God. For God so quiets the hearts of his children, as withall, he makes them better, and fitter for that which he provides for them, grace and peace goe together; Our God is the God of grace and peace, of such graces as breed peace.
1. As he is a God of love, nay love it self to us, so a taste of his love, raising 1up our love is better then wine, full of nothing but encouragement; it will fetch up a soul from the deepest discouragement: this grace quickeneth all other graces, it hath so much spirits in it as will sweeten all conditions. Love enables to wait, as Jacob for Lea seven 2years. Nothing is hard to love; it caries all the powers of the soul with it.