A12198:926
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.
Thereafter as we maintain this communion further with him, we out of love study to please him, by exact walking according to his commands; then we shall feel increase of peace as our care increaseth, then he will come, and s•p with us, and be free in his refreshing of us. Then he will show himself more and more to us, and manifest still a further degree of presence in joy and strength, until communion in grace, ends in communion in glory.
Thereafter as we maintain this communion further with him, wee out of love study to please him, by exact walking according to his commands; then we shall feele encrease of peace as our care encreaseth, then he will come, and s•p with us, and be free in his refreshing of us. Then he will shew himselfe more and more to us, and manifest still a further degree of presence in joy and strength, untill communion in grace, ends in communion in glory.
But we must remember (as David doth here) to desire and delight in God ⟨p. 564⟩himself, more then in any thing that is Gods: It was a sign of S. Pauls pure love to the Corinthians, when he said, I seek not yours, but you. We should seek for no blessing of God so much as for himself.
But wee must remember (as David doth here) to desire and delight in God ⟨p. 564⟩himselfe, more then in any thing that is Gods: It was a signe of S. Pauls pure love to the Corinthians, when he said, I seeke not yours, but you. We should seeke for no blessing of God so much as for himselfe.