The Soul's Conflict with Itself (Christian Classics)

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TO THE CHRISTIAN READER. .......................................................................................................................... 3
ON THE WORK OF MY LEARNED FRIEND DOCTOR SIBBES. ................................................................... 7
THE SOUL’S CONFLICT WITH ITSELF............................................................................................................ 9
CHAPTER 1 —General Observations upon the Text. ......................................................................................... 10
CHAPTER 2 — Of Discouragements from without. ........................................................................................... 12
CHAPTER 3 — Of Discouragements from within. ............................................................................................. 14
CHAPTER 4 — Of casting down ourselves, and specially by sorrow—evils thereof. ........................................ 19
CHAPTER 5 — Remedies of casting down: to cite the soul, and press it to give an account. ............................ 22
CHAPTER 6 — Other observations of the same nature....................................................................................... 25
CHAPTER 7 — Difference between good men and others in conflicts with sin................................................. 30
CHAPTER 8 — Of unfitting dejection, and when it is excessive. And what is the right temper of the soul
herein.................................................................................................................................................................... 32
CHAPTER 9 — Of the soul’s disquiets, God’s dealings, and power to contain ourselves in order. ................... 36
CHAPTER 10 — Means not to be overcharged with sorrow............................................................................... 38
CHAPTER 11 — Signs of victory over ourselves, and of a subdued spirit. ........................................................ 44
CHAPTER 12 — Of original righteousness, natural corruption, Satan’s joining with it, and our duty thereupon.
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CHAPTER 13 — Of imagination, sin of it, and remedies for it........................................................................... 52
CHAPTER 14 — Of help by others. Of true comforters and their graces. Method. Ill success. ......................... 64
CHAPTER 15 — Of flying to God in disquiets of souls; eight observations out of the text. .............................. 69
CHAPTER 16 — Of trust in God; grounds of it; especially his providence. ....................................................... 74
CHAPTER 17 — Of graces to be exercised in respect of Divine Providence. .................................................... 78
CHAPTER 18 — Other grounds of trusting in God, namely, the Promises, and twelve directions about the
same. .................................................................................................................................................................... 82
CHAPTER 19 — Faith to be prized, and other things undervalued, at least not to be trusted to as the chief. .... 88
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CHAPTER 20 — Of the method of trusting in God; and the trial of that trust. ................................................... 91
CHAPTER 21 — Of quieting the spirit in troubles for sin; and objections answered. ........................................