The Bruised Reed - Puritan Paperbacks

‘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, who was known in London in the early seventeenth century as “The Heavenly Doctor Sibbes” was an unfailing remedy.. The Bruised Reed.. quieted, soothed, comforted, encouraged and healed me.’
—D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

Richard Sibbes (1577-1635), one of the most influential figures in the Puritan movement during the earlier years of the seventeenth century, was renowned for the rich quality of his ministry. The Bruised Reed shows why he was known among his contemporaries as ‘the sweet dropper’.

The Bruised Reed is now issued for the first time in a smaller format in the Puritan Paperbacks series. Some of the language and punctuation have been modernized to make the work more accessible.

Contents

1. The Reed and the Bruising
2. Christ Will Not Break the Bruised Reed
3. The Smoking Flax
4. Christ Will Not Quench the Smoking Flax
5. The Spirit of Mercy Should Move Us
6. Marks of the Smoking Flax
7. Help for the Weak
8. Duties and Discouragements
9. Believe Christ, Not Satan
10. Quench Not the Spirit
11. Christ’s Judgment and Victory
12. Christ’s Wise Government
13. Grace Shall Reign
14. Means to Make Grace Victorious
15. Christ’s Public Triumph
16. Through Conflict to Victory