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Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

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Richard Sibbes
Age: 58 †
Born: 1577
Born: January 1
Died: 1635
Died: January 1
Theologian
Tostock
Suffolk
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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 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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The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.
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The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.
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It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.
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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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Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
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Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
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The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may also love his person: so the soul first loves Christ for salvation, but when it is brought to him, and finds what sweetness there is in him, then the soul loves him for himself, and esteems his person, as well as rejoices in his benefits.
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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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Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
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There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.
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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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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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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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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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If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.
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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.
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The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
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Times are bad, God is good.
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