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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
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.
§. 3.
I have stood the longer upon this, because it is the one thing needful, the one thing we should desire, that this one God, in whom, and from whom is all good, should be ours. All promises of all good in the new covenant, spring first from this, that God will be ours, and we shall be his. What can we have more? 1and what is in the world less that will content us long, or stand us in any stead, especially at that time when all must be taken from us? Let us put up all our desires for all things we stand in need of, in this right we have to God in Christ; who hath brought God and us together; he can deny us nothing, that hath not denied us himself. If he be moved from hence to do us good, ⟨p. 559⟩that we are his, Let us be moved to fetch all good from him, on the same right that he is ours.
I have stood the longer upon this, because it is the one thing needfull, the one thing wee should desire, that this one God, in whom, and from whom is all good, should be ours. All promises of all good in the new covenant, spring first from this, that God will be ours, and we shall be his. What can we have more? 1and what is in the world lesse that will content us long, or stand us in any stead, especially at that time when all must be taken from us? Let us put up all our desires for all things we stand in need of, in this right wee have to God in Christ; who hath brought God and us together; hee can deny us nothing, that hath not denied us himselfe. If he be moved from hence to doe us good, ⟨p. 559⟩that wee are his, Let us be moved to fetch all good from him, on the same right that he is ours.
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