Richard Sibbes
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Richard Sibbes (or Sibbs) (1577–1635) was an
Life
He was born in
He was then preacher at Gray's Inn, London, from 1617,[7] returning to Cambridge as Master of Catherine Hall in 1626, without giving up the London position.[8]
Also in 1626, the support group known as the
Works
He was the author of several devotional works expressing intense religious feeling – The Saint's Cordial (1629), The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax (1631, exegesis of Isaiah 42:3), The Soules Conflict (1635), etc.
A volume of sermons appeared in 1630, dedicated to Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury and his wife Lady Mare. Most of the other works were first published by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye, after Sibbes died. The content belied the mainly moderate and conforming attitudes for which Sibbes was known in his lifetime.[12] Beames of Divine Light, A Description of Christ in Three Sermons and Bowels Opened appeared in 1639, as did The Returning Backslider, sermons on the Book of Hosea.
A complete edition was published 1862–1864 in Edinburgh, in seven volumes, by James Nichol, with a biographical memoir by
Views
The clerical leaders of the Feoffees, Davenport, Gouge and Sibbes, all adhered to Calvinist
Efforts to define further the Puritanism of Sibbes – which is a term much debated – place him in various groups. Under pious "
His perspective was European, or even wider, and he saw
Quotes
- “There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.”[27]
Influence
His works were much read in New England.[26] Thomas Hooker, prominent there from 1633, was directly influenced by Sibbes, and his "espousal theology", using marriage as a religious metaphor, draws on The Bruised Reed and Bowels Opened.[28]
The poet George Herbert was a contemporary, and there are suggestions on parallels. Where Herbert speaks in The Church Militant about the westward movement of the propagation of the gospel, Christopher Hill comments that this may have come from The Bruised Reed.[29] Other examples have been proposed by Doerksen.[30][31]
Sibbes was cited by the
References
- ^ Hill 1976, p. 62
- ^ Frost 2004, p. 83; Beeke & Pederson 2006, p. 534
- ^ Gordon, Alexander (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 52. pp. 182–184.
- ^ Venn & Venn 1953
- ^ Beeke & Pederson 2006
- ^ Dever 2009, pp. 396–413
- ^ Banner of Truth Trust 1998, p. VIII
- ^ Pyle 2000, pp. 744–774
- ^ Adam 2005
- ^ Bremer 2006, pp. 396–397
- ^ Hill 1956, p. 255
- ^ Tyacke 2001, pp. 121–123
- ^ Hill 1956, p. 347
- ^ Hill 1989, p. 170
- ^ Hill 1956, p. 179
- ^ Ball 1975, p. 47
- ^ Lamont 1979, p. 47
- ^ Hill 1964, p. 19
- ^ Doerksen 1997, p. 21
- ^ Doerksen 1995
- ^ Hill 1984, p. 211
- ^ Hall 2002, p. 440
- ^ Hill 1964, pp. 127–128
- ^ Milton 1996, p. 398
- ^ Hill 1993, p. 302
- ^ a b Rooy 1997, p. 619
- ^ "More Mercy in Christ than Sin in Us".
- ^ Porterfield 1992, pp. 36–37
- ^ Hill 1993, p. 139
- ^ Herbert 2007, p. 477
- ^ Herbert 2007, p. 500
- ^ Dreyer 1999, p. 90
- ^ Old 2002, p. 88
- ^ Lloyd-Jones 1973, p. 175
Sources
- Adam, Peter (2005), A Church Halfly Reformed, archived from the original on 20 July 2011, retrieved 24 January 2014
- Ball, Bryan (1975), A Great Expectation, Leiden: Brill, ISBN 9004043152
- ISBN 0851517404
- ISBN 1601780001, retrieved 24 January 2014
- Bremer, Francis, ed. (2006), "Richard Sibbes", Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America, New York: ABC-Clio, ISBN 1576076784
- ISBN 978-1567698541
- ISBN 0865546576
- Doerksen, Daniel (1997), Conforming to the Word, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, ISBN 0838753345
- Doerksen, Daniel (1995), "Milton and the Jacobean Church of England", Early Modern Literary Studies, retrieved 24 January 2014
- Dreyer, Frederick (1999), The Genesis of Methodism, Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, ISBN 0585189013
- Frost, Ronald (2004), "The Bruised Reed", in Kapic, Kelly; Gleason, Randall (eds.), The Devoted Life, Downers Grove: InterVarsit Press, ISBN 0830827943
- Frost, Ronald (1996), Richard Sibbes' Theology of Grace and the Division of English Reformed Theology, London: University of London, OCLC 59317043
- Hall, David (October 2002), "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy on Trial", The Harvard Theological Review, 95 (4), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 437–452, S2CID 162594440
- Herbert, George (2007), Wilcox, Helen (ed.), The English Poems of George Herbert, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521868211
- OCLC 223865415
- ISBN 0713990783
- ISBN 0670302082
- OCLC 398857
- ISBN 0299081400
- ISBN 0192826913
- Lamont, William (1979), Richard Baxter and the Millennium, London: Croom Helm, ISBN 084766189X
- ISBN 0340156120
- Milton, Anthony (1996), Catholic and Reformed, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521401410
- Old, Hughes (2002), Worship, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, ISBN 0664225799
- Porterfield, Amanda (1992), Female Piety in Puritan New England, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195068211
- Pyle, Andrew, ed. (2000), "Richard Sibbes", The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers, vol. 2, Bristol: Thoemmes Press
- Rooy, Sidney (1997), Anderson, Gerald (ed.), "Sibbes, Richard", Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, New York: Macmillan Reference USA, ISBN 0028646045
- Tyacke, Nicholas (2001), Aspects of English Protestantism, c. 1530–1700, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 0719053919
- Venn, John; Venn, John Archibald (1953), "Richard Sibbs", in Venn, John; Venn, John Archibald (eds.), Alumni Cantabrigienses (Online ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, archived from the original on 23 December 2012, retrieved 24 January 2014
External links
- Works by or about Richard Sibbes at Internet Archive
- Works by Richard Sibbes at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)