The Works of Richard Sibbes, vol. 4
Overview
Afitting sequel to volume three, volume four brings together all of Richard Sibbes’ works on 1 and 2 Corinthians. Numerous sermons, treatises, and discourses make up this comprehensive commentary on Paul’s two epistles to the church in Corinth. Sibbes explores at length the key themes of Pauline theology, such as the relationship between the Gospel and the Law, judgment, and the resurrection.
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- Memoir of Richard Sibbes written by Rev. Alexander Balloch Grosart
- Treatises and sermons on the Epistles to the Corinthians
Top Highlights
“The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world. Nothing more steers the life of a Christian here than the consideration of the life hereafter; not only by way of comfort, that the consideration of immortal life and glory is the comfort of this mortal base life, but likewise by way of disposition and framing a man to all courses that are good. There is no grace of the Spirit, in a manner, but it is set on work by the consideration of the estate that is to come; no, not one.” (Page 170)
“Use 5. Again, by this we may know whether we have grace in us or no. If” (Page 279)
“For God infuseth all grace in communion, as we are members of the body mystical. Those that have sullen spirits, a spirit of separation, that scorn all meetings, they are carried with the spirit of the devil, and of the world. They know not what belongs to the things of God. It is the meek spirit that subjects itself to the ordinance of God. The Holy Ghost falls usually upon men when they are in holy communion.” (Page 301)
“We must pass through death to see God face to face as he is; then, not as he is, but more familiarly than we can now.” (Page 247)
“We knowing and apprehending the mercy of God in Christ by the Spirit, are changed by that Spirit ‘from glory to glory.’ So that the blessed Trinity, as they have a perfect unity in themselves in nature, for they are all one God, so they have a most perfect unity in their love, and care, and respect to mankind. We cannot want the work of any one of them all. Their work is for the good of mankind. The Father in his wisdom decreed and laid the foundation how mercy and justice might be reconciled in the death of the Mediator. Christ wrought our salvation. The Holy Ghost assures us of it and knits us to Christ, and changeth and fits us to be members of so glorious a head, and so translates and transforms us more and more ‘from glory to glory.’” (Page 294)
Sibbes never wastes . . . time. He scatters pearls and diamonds with both hands.
I shall never cease to be grateful to Richard Sibbes, who was balm to my soul at a period in my life when I was overworked and badly overtired, and therefore subject in an unusual manner to the onslaughts of the devil. I found at that time that Richard Sibbes . . . was an unfailing remedy. His books The Bruised Reed and The Soul’s Conflict quieted, soothed, comforted, encouraged, and healed me.
The most brilliant and popular of all the utterances of the Puritan church.
—William Haller
A ‘soul of goodness’ informs every fiber and filament of his thinking . . . there is not a page without food for the spiritually hungry.
—Rev. Alexander Balloch Grosart
- Title: The Works of Richard Sibbes, vol. 4
- Author: Richard Sibbes
- Editor: Alexander Balloch Grosart
- Publisher: James Nichol
- Publication Date: 1863
- Pages: 527
Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) entered St. John’s College at Cambridge in 1595 and was ordained in the Church of England in 1607. He received his BD in 1610. Sibbes lectured at Holy Trinity Church in Cambridge beginning in 1611 and, in 1617, became a preacher at Gray’s Inn—then London’s most famous pulpit. He returned to Catherine Hall in 1626 and to Holy Trinity Church in Cambridge in 1623, though he never gave up his preaching at Gray’s Inn. Influence of Sibbes’ thought shows in the writings of John Cotton, Hugh Peters, Thomas Goodwin, John Preston, and countless others.
Among Sibbes%rsquo; last words: “I commend and bequeath my soul into the hands of my gracious Savior, who hath redeemed it with his most precious blood, and appears now in heaven to receive it.”