Description Richard Sibbes (or Sibbs) (1577-1635) was an Anglican theologian. org). (wikipedia.
The evangelical Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote in the highest terms of his own encounter with the work of Sibbes.
The Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon studied his craft in Sibbes, Perkins and Thomas Manton.
Sibbes was cited by the Methodist John Wesley.
Other examples have been proposed by Doerksen.
Where Herbert speaks in The Church Militant about the westward movement of the propagation of the gospel, Christopher Hill comments that this may have come from The Bruised Reed.
The poet George Herbert was a contemporary, and there are suggestions on parallels.
Thomas Hooker, prominent there from 1633, was directly influenced by Sibbes, and his "espousal theology", using marriage as a religious metaphor, draws on The Bruised Reed and Bowels Opened.
His works were much read in New England.
He was then preacher at Gray\'s Inn, London, from 1617, returning to Cambridge as Master of Catherine Hall in 1626, without giving up the London position.
In fact he was never deprived of any of his posts, due to his ingenuity of the system.
It was erroneously held by 18th and 19th century scholars that Sibbes was deprived of his various academic posts on account of his Puritanism.
He was lecturer at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, from 1610 or 1611 to 1615 or 1616.
He attended St John\'s College, Cambridge from 1595.
He was born in Tostock, Suffolk, where his father was a wheelwright; other sources say Sudbury.
He is known as a Biblical exegete, and as a representative, with William Perkins and John Preston, of what has been called "main-line" Puritanism because he ever remained in the Church of England and worshiped according to the Book of Common Prayer.
Description Richard Sibbes (or Sibbs) (1577-1635) was an Anglican theologian
