Richard Sibbes
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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Then the fig leaves of morality will do us no good.
And it makes us more thankful and from thankfulness more fruitful in our lives.
For what makes many so cold and barren, but that bruising for sin never endeared God's grace to them?
Likewise, this stealing of God establishes us the more in his ways, having had knocks and bruisings in our own ways.
This is often the cause of relapses and apostasy, because men never smarted for sin at the point.
At first, they were not long enough under the lash of the law.
Hence this inferior work of the spirit in bringing down high thoughts is necessary before conversion.
And for the most part, the Holy Spirit, to further the work of conviction, joins with it some affliction, which, when sanctified, has a healing and purging power.
After conversion we need bruising so that reeds may know themselves to be reeds and not oaks.
Even reeds need bruising by reason of the remainder of pride in our nature.
and to let us see that we live by mercy.
Such bruising may help weaker Christians not to be too much discouraged when they see stronger ones shaken and bruised.
Thus Peter was bruised when he wept bitterly, Matthew twenty six seventy five and
This reed, till he met with this bruise, had more wind in him than Pith, when he said, Though all forsake thee, I will not Matthew twenty six thirty three.
The people of God cannot be without these examples.
The heroic deeds of those great worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do.
Thus David was bruised until he came to a free confession, without guile of spirit.
Psalm thirty two three through five
Nay, his sorrows did rise in his own feeling unto the exquisite pain of breaking of bones.
Psalm fifty one eight and
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