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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and backed by royal favour.
It was the Puritans who stood together to meet these inroads.
To them moderation in maintaining the truth of God's word was but sinful lukewarmness.
A curse lies upon those, said Sibbs, that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.
For his boldness, Sibbs was reprimanded in sixteen twenty seven.
In sixteen thirty two
Along with eleven other Puritan ministers, he was sentenced to banishment.
The sentence was never carried out, but Sibbs lived to see many of his dear friends, such as Samuel Ward, Thomas Goodwin, and
John Cotton
Thomas Hooker and others imprisoned or forced into exile in Holland or New England.
Concerning the final issue of this conflict, Sibbs was in no doubt.
Gardner, in his history of the Puritan Revolution, writes
Sibbs is distinguished by his triumphant confidence, while even Laud and Wentworth acknowledge to themselves that the chances were against them.
Elliot in his prison and Sibbs in his pulpit are jubilant with exultation.
Sibbs himself says
A Christian is an impregnable person.
He is a person that never can be conquered.
Emmanuel became man to make the church and every Christian to be one with him.
Christ's nature is out of danger.
Of all that is hurtful.
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