Praise God—it is almost Sunday! In order to help prepare us for church and worship, here is Richard Sibbes, from his book, entitled, "The Soul's Conflict with Itself.” . . .
"It is good to have in our spiritual view 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 origin, should rule other things be-neath 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 bothered by something? Then let us consider: is this matter worth the loss of my peace? What we esteem, that we will love. What we love, we seek. And therefore let us greatly value a clear, calm temper, whereby we both en-joy 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 of all things [God] has set above them. We owe the flesh neither honor nor service; we are no debtors to it."
