The Bruised Reed - Puritan Paperbacks (Sibbes)

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Sibbes, Richard

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9781848718036

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128

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Paperback

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‘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.

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Table of Contents:

1	The Reed and the Bruising	1
2	Christ Will Not Break the Bruised Reed	7
3	The Smoking Flax	16
4	Christ Will Not Quench the Smoking Flax	20
5	The Spirit of Mercy Should Move Us	26
6	Marks of the Smoking Flax	35
7	Help for the Weak	45
8	Duties and Discouragements	53
9	Believe Christ, Not Satan	62
10	Quench Not the Spirit	67
11	Christ’s Judgment and Victory	77
12	Christ’s Wise Government	83
13	Grace Shall Reign	91
14	Means to Make Grace Victorious	101
15	Christ’s Public Triumph	109
16	Through Conflict to Victory

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Richard Sibbes (1577-1635), English Puritan, was appointed a lecturer at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge in 1610. Later, through the influence of friends, he was chosen to be the preacher at Gray’s Inn, London, and he remained there until 1626. In that year he returned to Cambridge as Master of St Catherine’s Hall, and later returned to Holy Trinity, this time as its vicar. He was granted a Doctorate in Divinity in 1627, and was thereafter frequently referred to as ‘the heavenly Doctor Sibbes’. He continued to exercise his ministry at Gray’s Inn, London, and Holy Trinity, Cambridge, until his death on 6 July 1635 at the age of 58.