Richard Sibbes

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King Lear · Bruised Reed - Richard Sibbes · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

Let our grief run most in that channel.

small that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

But are we not bruised unless we grieve more for sin than we do for punishment?

Sometimes our grief from outward grievances may lie heavier upon the soul than grief for God's displeasure, because in such cases the grief works upon the whole man, both outward and inward, and has nothing to support it but a little spark of faith.

This faith, by reason of the violent impression of

the expression of the grievance is suspended in the exercises of it.

This is most felt in sudden distresses which come upon the soul as a torrent or land flood.

and especially in bodily sicknesses which, by reason of the sympathy between the soul and the body.

Work upon the soul so far as to hinder not only the spiritual but often the natural acts.

Therefore, James wishes us in affliction to pray ourselves that

But in case of sickness to send for the elders James five fourteen.

These may, as those in the gospels, are

Offer up to God in their prayers the sick person who is unable to present his own case.

Hereupon God admits of such a plea from the sharpness and bitterness of the grievance, as in David, Psalm six.

The Lord knows our frame, he remembers that we are but dust one hundred three fourteen, that our strength is not the strength of steel.

This is a branch of his faithfulness to us as well.

is as his creatures, whence he is called a faithful creator four nineteen.

God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able Corinthians ten thirteen.

There were certain commandments which the Jews called the hedges of the law.

So as defencemen off from cruelty,

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