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God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.
Richard Sibbes
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Richard Sibbes
Age: 58 †
Born: 1577
Born: January 1
Died: 1635
Died: January 1
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.
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The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.
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God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.
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When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.
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Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it if disgrace be good, they shall have it if crosses be good, they shall have them if misery be good, they shall have it for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.
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The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.
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The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise.
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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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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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Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.
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What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from being a judge, becomes our Father, pardoning our sins and accepting our obedience, though feeble and blemished? We are now brought to heaven under the covenant of grace by a way of love and mercy.
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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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Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.
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Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).
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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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We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God's ways we go out of His government, and so lose our good frame of mind, and find ourselves overspread quickly with a contrary disposition. When we draw near to Christ (James 4:8), in His ordinances, He draws near to us.
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