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The Complete Works Of Richard Sibbes. D.D. (See Bio Below) Complete In 7 Volumes * Published By James Nichol - James Nisbet & Co. - W. Robertson Edinburgh - London - Dublin ~ 1862 ~ * Deeply Embossed Brown Cloth Hardcovers Titles In Gold Gilding On The Spines Red Page Edges Size: 6 x 9 x 1-1/2 3715 Total Pages For The 7 Volumes * Condition: Good+ Cover(s) Are Firmly Attached With Very Light Shelf Wear Text Block(s) Are Solid, Clean, Bright & Complete A Very Nice Set Of This Hard To Find Author! NOTE: Insurance Is Included In Shipping Cost _____________________________________________________ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Richard Sibbs ) Jump to: navigation , search Born 1577 Tostock , Suffolk Died 1635 (aged 57–58) Notable work(s) The Bruised Reed Influenced by John Calvin Theological work Era Elizabethan era Tradition or movement Puritanism , Calvinism Richard Sibbes (or Sibbs ) (1577–1635) was an English theologian. He is known as a Biblical exegete, and as a representative, with William Perkins and John Preston , of what has been called "main-line" Puritanism .[ 1] Contents [ hide ] 1 Life 2 Works 3 Views 4 Influence 5 Notes 6 References Life [ edit ]He was born in Tostock , Suffolk , where his father was a wheelwright ;[ 2] other sources say Sudbury . He attended St John's College, Cambridge from 1595. [3 ] He was lecturer at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge , from 1610 or 1611 to 1615 or 1616. [4 ] It is erroneously held by 18th and 19th century scholars that Sibbes was deprived of his various academic posts on account of his Puritanism . In fact he was never deprived of any of his posts, due to his ingenuity of the system. [5 ]He was then preacher at Gray's Inn , London, from 1617, [6 ] returning to Cambridge as Master of Catherine Hall in 1626, without giving up the London position. [7 ]Also in 1626, the support group known as the Feoffees for Impropriations was set up, and Sibbes was a founder member (it built on an informal grouping dating back to 1613). It was closely linked to St Antholin, Budge Row , for its seven years of existence: it was shut down in 1633. [8 ] With others, he worked to fund and provide platforms for preachers. [9 ] He was one of four ministers in the original feoffees, the other members being chosen as four lawyers and four laymen. [10 ] Works [ edit ]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. [11 ] 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 Alexander Grosart . Views [ edit ]The clerical leaders of the Feoffees, Davenport, Gouge and Sibbes, all adhered to Calvinist covenant theology , as shaped by the English theologians Perkins, Preston, William Ames , and Thomas Taylor .[ 12 ][ 13 ] There was a tacit assumption of a state church .[ 14 ] Sibbes believed the Second Coming was necessary to complete the work that Christ had begun. [15 ]Efforts to define further the Puritanism of Sibbes - which is a term much debated - place him in various groups. Under pious " non-separatists ", he is with Preston, Richard Baxter , Robert Bolton , and John Dod .[ 16 ] Under those who would conform to set forms of w... read more

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