Richard Sibbes
speaker
3,163 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Richard Sibbes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Christ will make up in us all the breaches which sin and Satan have made.
He binds up the broken hearted Isaiah sixty one.
As a mother is tenderest to the most diseased and weakest child, so does Christ most mercifully inclined to the weakest.
Likewise he puts an instinct into the weakest things to rely upon something stronger than themselves for support.
The vine stays itself upon the elm.
And the weakest creatures often have the strongest shelters.
The consciousness of the church's weakness makes her willing to lean on her beloved and to hide herself under his wing.
Who are the bruised reeds?
But how shall we know whether we are such as may expect mercy?
Answer one.
By the bruised here is not meant those that are brought low with
not only by crosses, but such as by them, are brought to see their sin, which bruises most of all.
When conscience is under the guilt of sin, then every judgment brings a report of God's anger to the soul.
And all lesser troubles run into this great trouble of conscience for sin.
As all corrupt humours run to the diseased and bruised part of the body,
And as every creditor falls upon the debtor when he is once arrested.
So when conscience is once awakened, all former sins and present crosses join together to make the bruise the more painful.
Now he that is thus bruised will be content with nothing but with mercy from him who has bruised him.
He has wounded and he must heal Hosea six one.
The Lord who has bruised me deservedly for my sins, must bind up my heart again.
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