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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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With this joy goeth a spirit of courage and confidence. What can daunt that soul, which in the greatest troubles hath made the great God to be its own? Such a spirit dares bid defiance to all opposite power, setting the soul above the world, having a spirit larger and higher then the world, and seeing ⟨p. 543⟩all (but God) beneath it, as being in heaven already in its head. After Moses and Micah had seen God in his favour to them, how little did they regard the angry countenances of those mighty Princes that were in their times, the terrors of the world? The courage of a Christian is not only against sensible danger, and of flesh and blood, but against principalities, and powers of darkness, against the whole kingdom of Satan, the god of the world, whom he knows shortly shall be trodden under his feet. Satan and his may for a time exercise 1us, but they cannot hurt us. True believers are so many Kings and Queens, so many Conquerors over that which others are slaves to: they can overcome themselves in revenge, they can despise those things that the world admires, and see an excellency in that which the world sets light by, they can set upon spiritual duties, which the world cannot tell how to go about, and endure that which others tremble to think of, and that upon wise reasons, and a sound foundation, they can put off themselves, ⟨p. 544⟩and be content to be nothing, so their God may appear the greater, and dare undertake and undergo any thing for the glory of their God. This courage of Christians among the Heathens 2was counted obstinacy, but they knew not the power of the spirit of Christ in his, which is ever strongest, when they are weakest in themselves, they knew not the privy armour of proof that Christians had about their hearts, and thereupon counted their courage to be obstinacy.
With this joy goeth a spirit of courage and confidence. What can daunt that soule, which in the greatest troubles hath made the great God to be its owne? Such a spirit dares bid defiance to all opposite power, setting the soule above the world, having a spirit larger and higher then the world, and seeing ⟨p. 543⟩