Richard Sibbes

Richard Sibbes (1577 - 1635), divine, was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He attended St Johns College at Cambridge, where he held various

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1577 - 1635 - Divine - St Johns College - Cambridge

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academic posts, of which he was deprived by the High Commission on

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account of his Puritanism.

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He was the author of several devotional works

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expressing intense religious feeling — The Saint's Cordial (1629), The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax, etc. He was a man of great learning.

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The Saint's Cordial - The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax

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