an pastor of all time (Richard Sibbes). Here is some solid Puritan gold, from his, "The Soul's Conflict with Itself" book. I hope this helps you get ready for church on the Lord's Day (coming). . . .
"It is good to have in our eye the beauty of a well-ordered soul; and we should think that nothing in this world is of sufficient worth to put us out of frame. . . . Our spirits, being of a heavenly breed, should rule other things beneath them, and not be ruled by them. It is a holy state of soul to be under the power of nothing beneath itself. Are we stirred? Then consider: is this matter worth the loss of my peace? What we esteem, that we love; what we love, we labor for; and therefore let us esteem highly of a clear, calm temper, whereby we both enjoy our God and ourselves, and know how to rank all other things. It is against nature for inferior things to rule that which the wise Disposer [God] of all things has set above them. We owe the flesh neither honor nor service; we are no debtors to it."
