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Richard Sibbes wrote extensively about the relationship between suffering and sin, as well as the suffering of Christ. Volume One contains numerous works on these topics, including The Bruised Reed, the work for which Sibbes is best known. He also writes about the place of saints and the nature of those whom God loves and has called. Sibbes is well-positioned to speak of suffering and of those in...

of much esteem: nothing in the world of so good use, as the least dram of grace.* Obs. 2. But grace is not only little, but mingled with corruption; whereof it is, that a Christian is said to be smoking flax. Whence we see, that grace doth not waste corruption all at once, but some is left to conflict withal. The purest actions of the purest men need Christ to perfume† them, and so is his office. When we pray, we need to pray again for Christ to pardon
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