Puritan Paperbacks - The Bruised Reed

'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'.

Of all Richard Sibbes' works, The Bruised Reed has probably had the most enduring impact. It is an exposition of Matthew's application to Jesus of the description of the Servant of the Lord in Isaiah 42:3 (Matt. 12:20). Sibbes' wonderfully sensitive treatment has ministered to generations of Christians since its first publication in 1630.

Table of 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

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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.

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