The Amazing Richard Sibbes
The Amazing Richard Sibbes The Puritan pastor Rev. Richard Sibbes (1577-1635), was very-appropriately referred to as, "the heavenly Doctor." Sometimes his books and sermons seem to lift the souls of the church's saints right into glory, (even while we are still down here on Earth). A sermon Sibbes preached on Song of Solomon 5:2 & 3, in a series entitled, "The Love of Christ," will prove the point. Check out these remarkable words, as I quote him, (and all the italics are my emphases): "Thus [Christ] looks on us, and thus faith looks upon Him too, and together with the sight and sense of sin, at the same time it apprehends righteousness, perfect righteousness, and so is undefiled . This is the main point in religion, and the comfort of Christians, to see their perfection in Christ Jesus, and to be lost in themselves, as it were, and to...