The Works of Richard Sibbes, vol. 6
Overview
Although Sibbes devotes much of his theological exploration and biblical exposition to New Testament themes, volume six is devoted to the Old Testament. His treatises, collected here, on the covenant in the Old Testament brought covenant theology—central to Reformed theology—to the fore. Sibbes also writes at length about Josiah and the implications of the life of Josiah for theological reflection. The volume concludes with lengthy treatises on the relationship between wealth and poverty as well as on appropriate occasions for violence in Christianity.
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- Memoir of Richard Sibbes written by Rev. Alexander Balloch Grosart
- Note from the editor at the beginning of each chapter
Top Highlights
“If God had. not a communicative, spreading goodness, he would never have created the world. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were happy in themselves, and enjoyed one another before the world was. But that God delights to communicate and spread his goodness, there had never been a creation nor a redemption.” (Page 113)
“Doct. 1. That God doth graciously fit prophets for persons, and his word, to a people that are upright in their hearts. Where there is a true desire to know the will of God, there God will give men sincere prophets that shall answer them exactly; not according to their own lusts, but for their good.” (Page 30)
“There is nothing in the world so hard as the heart of man. The” (Page 32)
“Though he kills me, I will yet trust in him,’ Job 13:15” (Page 164)
“First, A tender heart is made tender by him that made it. For no creature in the world can soften and turn the heart, only God must alter and change it; for we are all by nature earthly, dead, and hard.” (Page 33)
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. 6
- 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.”