The Works of Richard Sibbes, vol. 5
Overview
Volume five continues Sibbes’ expositions and treatises on Pauline epistles. This volume includes a lengthy exposition of Philippians 2 as well as Sibbes’ exploration of the redemption of bodies and the relationship between the physical and the spiritual realms.
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- Memoir of Richard Sibbes written by Rev. Alexander Balloch Grosart
- Expositions and treatises on several of the Epistles of St. Paul
Top Highlights
“hen we know that in God there is ‘no shadow of changing,” (Page 179)
“It is a destructive addition, to add anything to Christ. Away with other satisfaction. The satisfaction of Christ is enough. Away with merits. The merits of Christ are all-sufficient. Away with merit of works in matter of salvation. Christ’s righteousness is that that we must labour to be found in, and ‘not in our own,’ Philip. 3:9.” (Pages 509–510)
“He knows this, and therefore he can want, he can be abased as long as he hath the spring of all” (Page 180)
“he learned it of Christ, and by blessed experiences in afflictions” (Page 178)
“Sometimes God himself hides himself out of wisdom and mercy to us” (Page 207)
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. 5
- Author: Richard Sibbes
- Editor: Alexander Balloch Grosart
- Publisher: James Nichol
- Publication Date: 1863
- Pages: 540
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.”