Richard Sibbes
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3,163 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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His work in bruising tends to our work in bruising ourselves.
Let us lament our own perversity and say, Lord, what a heart have I that needs all this, that none of this could be spared.
We must lay siege to the hardness of our own hearts and aggravate sin all we can.
We must look on Christ who is bruised for us, look on him whom we have pierced with our sins.
But all directions will not prevail unless God by His Spirit convinces us deeply, setting our sins before us and driving us to a standstill.
Then we will cry out for mercy.
Conviction will breed contrition, and this leads to humiliation.
Therefore desire God that He would bring a clear and strong light into all the corners of our souls, and accompany it with a spirit of power to lay our hearts low.
A set measure of bruising of ourselves cannot be prescribed, but it must be so far as one, that we may prize Christ above all,
and see that a Saviour must be had, and two, that we reform that which is amiss, though it be to the cutting off of our right hand or pulling out of our right eye.
There is a dangerous slighting of the work of humiliation, some alleging this for a pretense for their casual dealing with their own hearts, that Christ will not break the bruised reeds.
But such must know that every sudden terror and short grief is not that which makes us bruised reads.
Not a little bowing down our heads like a bull rush, Isaiah fifty eight five.
But a working our hearts to such a grief as will make sin more odious to us than punishment, until we offer a holy violence against it.
Else favoring ourselves we make work for God to bruise us, and for sharp repentance afterwards.
It is dangerous, I confess, in some cases, with some spirits, to press too much and too long this bruising, because they may die under the wound and burden before they be raised up again.
Therefore it is good in mixed assemblies to mingle comfort that every soul may have its due portion.
But if we have this for a foundation truth, that there is more mercy in Christ than sin in us, there can be no danger in thorough dealing.
It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.
Therefore let us not take off ourselves too soon, nor pull off the plaster before the cure be wrought, but keep ourselves under this work till sin be the sourest and Christ the sweetest of all things, and when God's hand is upon us in any way, it is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin.
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