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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To encourage their progress, to remove all difficulties out of their way.
to help them in every way to bear the yoke of religion with greater ease.
to bring them to love God and his service.
lest they acquire a distaste for it before they know it.
For the most part we see that Christ plants in young beginners a love which we call their first love.
Revelation two four
To carry them through their profession with more delight.
and does not expose them to crosses before they have gathered strength.
As we bring on young plants and fence them from the weather until they be rooted.
Mercy to others should move us to deny ourselves and our liberties oftentimes, in case of offending weak ones.
It is the little ones that are offended Matthew eighteen six.
The weakest are most ready to think themselves despised.
Therefore we should be most careful to give them satisfaction.
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labor to give no offense, and the other to labor to take none.
The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.
Yet people should not tire and wear out the patience of others, nor should the weaker so far demand moderation from others as to rely upon their indulgence, and so to rest in their own infirmities, with danger to their own souls and scandal to the church.
Neither must they despise the gifts of God in others, which grace teaches to honor wheresoever they are found.
But know their parts and place, and not undertake anything above their measure.
Which may make their persons and their case obnoxious to scorn.
When blindness and boldness, ignorance and arrogance, weakness and willfulness meet together in men.
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