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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 34THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 34
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CHAP. XXXIV.
Of confirming this trust in God. Seek it of God himself. Sins hinder not: nor Satan. Conclusion and Soliloquy.
Of confirming this trust in God. Seeke it of God himselfe. Sins hinder not: nor Satan. Conclusion and Soliloquie.
§ 1.
But to return to the drawing out of our trust by waiting. Our estate in this world is still to wait, and happy it is that we have so great things to wait for; but our comfort is, that we have not only a furniture of graces, one 1strengthening another as stones in an arch, but likewise GOD vouchsafeth some drops of the sweetness of the ⟨p. 549⟩things we wait for, both to increase our desire of those good things, as likewise to enable us more comfortably to wait for them. And though we should die waiting, only cleaving to the promise with little or no taste of the good promised; yet this might comfort us, that there is a life to come, that is a life of sight and sense, and not only of taste but of fullness, and that for evermore.