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In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.

Richard Sibbes

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Richard Sibbes
Age: 58 †
Born: 1577
Born: January 1
Died: 1635
Died: January 1
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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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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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that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.
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Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
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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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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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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 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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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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There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.
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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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Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
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What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?
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See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
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Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.
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Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.
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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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