A12198:917
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
God much rejoiceth in sinners converted, as monuments of his mercy, and because the remembrance of their 1former sins, whets them on to be more earnest in his service, especially after they have felt the sense of Gods love, they even burn with a holy desire of honouring him, whom before they dishonoured, and stand not upon doing or suffering any thing for him, but cheerfully embrace all occasions of expressing obedience. God hath more work from them then from others; why then should any be discouraged?
God much rejoyceth in sinners converted, as monuments of his mercy, and because the remembrance of their 1former sinnes, whers them on to bee more earnest in his service, especially after they have felt the sence of Gods love, they even burn with a holy desire of honouring him, whom before they dishonoured, and stand not upon doing or suffering any thing for him, but cheerefully embrace all occasions of expressing obedience. God hath more worke from them then from others; why then should any be discouraged?
- 1Ex ipso dolore suo con puncti, inardescunt in amore dei. Damna praecedentia lucris sequentibus compensant. Greg.Ex ipso dolore suo cō puncti, inardescunt in amore dei. Damna praecedentia lucris sequentibus compensant. Greg.
Neither is it sins after our conversion, that nullify this claim of God to be Ours. For this is the grand difference ⟨p. 556⟩betwixt the two covenants, that now God will be merciful to our sins, if our hearts by faith be sprinkled with the 1blood of Christ. Though one sin was enough to bring condemnation, yet the free gift of grace in Christ, is of many offences unto justification. And we have a sure ground for this; for the righteousness of Christ is Gods righteousness, and God will thus glorify it, that it shall stand good to those that by faith apply it against their daily sins, even till at once we cease both to live, and sin. For this very end was the Son of God willingly made sin, that we might be freed from the same. And if all our sins laid upon Christ could not take away Gods love from him, shall they take away Gods love from us, when by Christs blood our souls are purged from them?