Excerpt from The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, D.D, Vol. 5: Master of Catherine Hall, Cambridge; Preacher of Gray's Inn, London
Christian reader, thou mayest please to take notice that this book is divided into two parts the first whereof is upon the whole third chapter of the Epistle to the Philippians, and contains 256 pages and because it is entire, and upon the whole third chapter, we have therefore put it first. The second part is upon some certain verses only of the second chapter to the Philippians, and some other texts of Scripture, and contains 204 pages.
Now, for the ready finding out of any principal or material things in the whole book, we have to the book annexed this alphabetical index; for the understanding whereof take thou notice, that the first p signifies the part, and the second p the page of that part, as for example: There being nothing observed in A, we begin with B, where first thou seest, Christians must be blameless, p. 92; that is, part the second, page 92 of the second part then how Saint Paul was blameless, when he was without the law, p. 1.
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Richard Sibbes was an English theologian. 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.
He attended St John's College, Cambridge from 1595. He was lecturer at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, from 1610 or 1611 to 1615 or 1616. It is erroneously held by 18th and 19th century scholars that Sibbes was deprived of his various academic posts on account of his Puritanism. In fact he was never deprived of any of his posts, due to his ingenuity of the system.
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.
He was the author of several devotional works expressing intense religious feeling -- The Saint's Cordial (1629), The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax (1631, exegesis of Isaiah 42:3), The Soules Conflict (1635), etc.
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