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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 2THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe. › Chapter 2
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.
1. GOD himself: who sometimes withdraws the beams of his 1countenance from his children, whereupon the soul even of the strongest Christian is disquieted; when together with the cross, God himself seems to be an enemy unto them. The child of God when he seeth that his troubles are mixed with Gods displeasure, and perhaps his conscience tells him that God hath a just quarrel against ⟨p. 13⟩him, because he hath not renewed his peace with his God, then this anger of 2God puts a sting into all other troubles, and adds to the disquiet. There were some ingredients of this divine temptation (as we call it) in holy David at this time: though most properly a divine temptation be, when God appears unto us as an enemy, without any special guilt of any particular sin, as in Jobs case.
1. GOD himselfe: who sometimes withdrawes the beames of his 1countenance from his children, whereupon the soule even of the strongest Christian is disquieted; when together with the crosse, God himselfe seemes to be an enemie unto them. The child of God when hee seeth that his troubles are mixed with Gods displeasure, and perhaps his conscience tells him that God hath a just quarrell against ⟨p. 13⟩him, because he hath not renewed his peace with his God, then this anger of 2God puts a sting into all other troubles, and addes to the disquiet. There were some ingredients of this divine temptation (as wee call it) in holy David at this time: though most properly a divine temptation bee, when God appeares unto us as an enemy, without any speciall guilt of any particular sin, as in Iobs case.
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