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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.THE SOVLES CONFLICT with it selfe.
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.
But what ground hast thou to build thy self so strongly upon God?
But what ground hast thou to build thy selfe so strongly upon God?
He hath offered, and made himself ⟨p. 571⟩to be [My God,] and so hath showed himself in former times; And I have made him My God, by yielding him his Sovereignty in my heart. Besides the present evidence of his blessed spirit, clearing the same, and many peculiar tokens of his love, which I daily do enjoy; though sometimes the beams of his favour are eclipsed. Those that are Gods, besides their interest and right in him, have oft a sense of the same even in this life, as a fore-taste of that which is to come. To the seal of grace stamped upon their hearts, God super-adds a fresh seal of joy and comfort, by the presence and witness of his Spirit. And shows likewise some outward token for good upon them, whereby he makes it appear, that he hath set a part him that is godly for himself, 1as his own.
He hath offered, and made himselfe ⟨p. 571⟩to be [My God,] and so hath shewed himselfe in former times; And I have made him My God, by yeelding him his Soveraignty in my heart. Besides the present evidence of his blessed spirit, clearing the same, and many peculiar tokens of his love, which I daily doe enjoy; though sometimes the beams of his favour are eclipsed. Those that are Gods, besides their interest and right in him, have oft a sense of the same even in this life, as a fore-taste of that which is to come. To the seale of grace stamped upon their hearts, God super-adds a fresh seale of joy and comfort, by the presence and witnesse of his Spirit. And shewes likewise some outward token for good upon them, whereby he makes it appeare, that hee hath set a part him that is godly for himselfe,