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Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
Richard Sibbes
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Richard Sibbes
Age: 58 †
Born: 1577
Born: January 1
Died: 1635
Died: January 1
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The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.
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In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.
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Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.
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If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.
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This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.
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Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.
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Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
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See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to it Christ himself executeth the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.
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